Project Manager

Project Manager ROCGJP00029353

A leading biotechnology company is seeking a Project Manager. The successful candidate will be part of the innovative therapies project management team to provide organizational support, leadership, project management, and business operations expertise. Additionally, this position must effectively manage the projects across global locations and time zones. The ideal candidate has seven or more years of experience as a successful Information Technology Project Manager using structured project management processes.

Project Manager Pay and Benefits:

• Hourly pay: $60-$70/hr
• Worksite: Leading biotechnology company (Hillsboro, OR 97124 - Onsite, This position must effectively manage the projects across global locations and time zones and be able to travel internationally 10% of the time as needed)
• W2 Employment, Group Medical, Dental, Vision, Life, Retirement Savings Program, PSL
• 40 hours/week, 33 Month Assignment

Project Manager Responsibilities:

• Effectively manage projects: define project objectives, requirements, and assumptions necessary to develop project charter and project plans.
• Identify, acquire, and lead multifunctional, global project teams (project team sizes 15-60)
• Manage relationships with various technology and business communities to achieve project objectives
• Plan and manage the project scope, schedule, and budget to fulfill objectives and satisfy project requirements and strategy.
• Develop, drive and maintain integrated project plans, and timelines aligning project tactics with project strategy.
• Lead, coordinate, facilitate, and motivate all associated project resources to gain alignment on project goals and deliverables.
• Facilitate and lead effective project meetings and workshops, manage change and conflict, and develop resource planning estimates to manage project workload and productivity. Create agenda topics and facilitate project/team meetings; write/review meeting minutes.
• Implement lean project and portfolio management practices.
• Apply strong project management and business operations skills and experience in the creation, maintenance and improvement of business processes and tools to support the PTC organization.
• Support the creation and maintenance of portfolio reports to facilitate communication and alignment across workstreams.
• Support team business processes and tools, ensuring timely updates and driving continuous improvement.
• Identify and apply systematic quality activities to ensure that projects employ all processes needed to meet Computer System Validation directives.
• Design and implement improvements where necessary/appropriate to improve operational efficiencies
• Lead and conduct risk management planning, identification, analysis and monitoring on projects within project teams, ensuring risks have appropriate mitigation and contingency plans.
• Formulate risk mitigation strategies and recommend solutions
• Manage the processes required to ensure timely and appropriate generation, collection, distribution, storage, retrieval, and ultimate disposition of project information and documentation necessary for successful communications across all stakeholders and any required updates to living system documents for validated systems

Project Manager Qualifications:

• 7+ years of experience as a successful Information Technology Project Manager using structured project management processes.
• 5-8+ years of project management experience in the Pharmaceutical/Biotech or Informatics / IT industry. Prefer 10-12 years project management experience.
• BA/BS.
• PMP certification or certification in progress is preferred.
• Experience with MS Project or Smartsheet and data visualization tools (e.g. Tableau or Spotfire) is required.
• Experience within the Pharmaceutical and BioTech industry is a plus.
• Experience managing IT projects in GxP validated environments is a plus.
• Experience managing offshore contract resources is a plus.
• Experience with ERP, LIMS and PKM systems is a plus.
• Experience supporting technical development and transfer activities with a focus on cell and gene therapy is preferred.
• Ideal candidate has previous experience working with external collaborators.
• Excellent PowerPoint, collaboration systems and g-suite skills (or similar).
• Excellent written and verbal skills.
• Demonstrates effective communication skills and integrates team members, internal and external partners to achieve team goals.
• Must be proactive, with excellent interpersonal skills and ability to work collaboratively and flexibly in multiple teams.
• Ability to work in a dynamic, matrixed team environment and effectively manage change.
• Deep understanding of various SDLCs (Waterfall, Agile, iterative, etc.).
• Deep understanding of technology infrastructures.
• Demonstrated competency planning and tracking project schedules with clearly-defined critical paths.
• Ability to manage mid-level, multifunctional projects across multiple global locations.
• Proven ability to obtain results in a global, matrix environment.
• Track record of delivering projects on time and on budget.
• Ability to see the interrelationship of a project across "the big picture" and understand its dependency on other projects in the program as required.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills, as well as presentation abilities.
• Demonstrated success communicating across a variety of audiences, including business people and technologists (both up and down the organization).
• Exceptional listening, problem-solving, negotiation, and facilitation skills.
• Proven leadership abilities and emotional intelligence.
• Demonstrated success in handling initiatives of significant complexity and risk.

Shift:

• 8:00 am to 4:30 PM.