Senior Project Coordinator (Communication & Collaboration)

NextLink is having an exciting position as SENIOR PROJECT COORDINATOR (COMMUNICATION & COLLABORATION) to join our leading pharmaceutical client in Switzerland to support the company with a new change project at regional level.

TASKS & RESPONSIBILITIES:

- Meeting with Site representatives on a weekly basis
- Maintain and update the Site Transition Plan, RAID log (risks, assumptions, issues, dependencies) and produce a weekly Status Report per Site
- Ensuring that Project risks and issues are proactively highlighted to the project manager (contractor has here a signalling function)
- Proactively engage and follow-up with responsible stakeholders at all levels
- Assist the PMO in Planning and monitoring of project activities, and provide support in PMO duties to support planned and unplanned team member absences

REQUIREMENTS/MUST-HAVES:

- Project Management Certification (PM know-how)
- 7 years + demonstrated experience in full life cycle of two or more Organizational Change Management projects in a complex Matrix environment
- Must have proven experience in working with and coordinating regionalized project teams and virtual teams

Self-motivated and strong documentation skills (quality of documentation is very important) - Experience in a Pharmaceutical environment
- Proven ability to work independently and self-reliant
- Hard working and proactive mindset
- Excellent communication skills, stakeholder management skills, influencing and negotiating skills and flexibility required
- Experience with GoogleDocs, GDrive and Smartsheet (PM tool)
- Fluent in English
- Other European languages (German, Spanish, French, Polish)

PROJECT DETAILS:

Period: 8 months

Start date: December 2016

Location: Basel, Switzerland

Workload: full time, with some travel (up to 10%)