Senior Project Manager Job

SENIOR PROJECT MANAGER needed for a CONTRACT job opportunity with Yoh's client located in South San Francisco, CA.

WHAT YOU'LL BE DOING:

- To ensure oversight of PDQ project management methods, processes and tools and their effective use in managing, delivering, evaluating, monitoring and reporting on PDQ projects/programs and initiatives across all involved functional groups.
- Establishes and uses core project management and business life cycle methodologies.
- Consistently applies established methodologies to ensure projects/programs effectively and efficiently support business strategies, plans, goals and operations in the immediate, mid and long term.
- Provides planning and coordination of projects/programs through development, deployment maintenance and decommissioning.
- Provides on-going status reporting to functional leadership that reflects core activities within the project portfolio.
- Leads or participates on cross-functional teams and is responsible for ensuring projects achieve business objectives.
- Builds and maintains strong relationships with all internal and external partners/stakeholders.
- Performs on-going project risk and issues assessments and critical dependencies analysis, communicates with team members and addresses with functional leadership as appropriate.
- Budget estimation
- User and system requirements
- UAT testing
- Managing change
- Communications
- Maintenance or life cycle management
- Conducting and documenting lessons learned to identify and incorporate solutions into methodologies.
- Collaborates with PDQ functions to establish project teams, uses effective meeting management principles and uses project management resources from functions productively.
- Drafts and finalizes meeting minutes in a timely manner, ensuring that decisions and agreements are highlighted and that follow-up actions and accountabilities are clear.
- Compiles, organizes and maintains key team documentation in appropriate PDQ systems.

WHAT YOU NEED TO BRING TO THE TABLE:

- Bachelor's degree in computer science, mathematics, business administration or related analytic or scientific field required.
- Advanced degree in referenced fields preferred.
- Six to ten (6-10) years of experience in various aspects of the international pharmaceutical clinical development process (Phase I-IV) with an emphasis in business process and operations.
- Demonstrated knowledge of GCP, GLP, pharmacovigilance/drug safety and regulatory requirements, as well as analytical, organizational and planning skills.
- Six (6) plus years project/program management (PMP) experience coordinating cross functional teams working on complex projects.
- Knowledge in change management.
- Formal business management strategy certification.
- Must demonstrate strong operational management skills, including internal consulting, project management, and highly effective teamwork and collaboration skills.
- Demonstrated ability to effectively communicate, influence and lead both with and without authority.
- Proven project management skills in a global setting.
- Knowledge of organizational change management.
- Expertise in understanding diverse corporate operations and associated life cycle management.
- Business process analysis.
- Project management of projects with cross-functional involvement and complex timelines preferably in a Quality and product development environment.
- Experience in resource forecasting, planning and/or management.
- Ability to work effectively in an international multicultural Matrix organization.
- Effective communication, customer management and facilitation skills.
- Fluency in written and spoken English
- Demonstrated knowledge of product
- Strong understanding of PDQ business and functional group operations
- Working with and leading teams and acting globally
- Collaboration and teamwork
- All aspects of project management

IF THIS SOUNDS LIKE YOU, APPLY NOW!

RECRUITER: Rob West

Yoh, a Day & Zimmermann company, is an Equal Opportunity Employer, M/F/D/V.

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