Life Sciences Program Manager

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In this role you will partner with Process Owners, Portfolio Leaders, Project Managers and IT Executives to drive the execution of our IT projects, ensuring on time and on schedule delivery, govern projects to our processes, ensure tools support our process and ensure portfolios are aligned to our strategic plans and IT roadmaps. It is important that you possess strong stakeholder management skills to manage competing priorities and expectations. Understanding key project management concepts like waterfall & agile delivery, the principles of PMBOK, portfolio prioritization, IT governance and SDLC are critical to the success of this role. While the focus of this role is managing the PMO, you must be willing to actively engage in managing large cross-functional IT programs, as necessary.

Key responsibilities for this role include:

• Driving the definition and consistent documentation of our IT Project Management processes
• Creating a standard project management approach to agile & waterfall projects
• Teaching global teams on project management principles
• Executing quarterly IT portfolio reviews
• Overseeing maintenance of Project & Portfolio Management (PPM) toolset to support processes
• Working with Functional PPM tool owner to drive future enhancements
• Governing projects to standard processes
• Identifying disparate processes and harmonizing across functional units
• Maintaining backlog of project management process improvements and prioritizing
• Staying abreast of Project & Portfolio Management Industry trends
• Defining requirements for Portfolio & PMO dashboards
• Identifying project & portfolio management KPIs and trends and creating strategies to correct negative trends
• Actively supporting and driving major IT initiatives as required

The minimum qualifications for this role are:

• Minimum of a Bachelor's degree (or equivalent) required. However, a combination of experience and/or education will be taken into consideration
• 10+ years’ experience of PMO Leadership required
• 7-10 years’ experience working with Project & Portfolio Management software
• 10+ years’ experience managing a global team required
• Demonstrated experience driving functional improvements in PMO required
• Demonstrated experience driving / managing major IT initiatives required
• Excellent communication skills required
• A strong customer centric approach to managing change is required
• Experience working in a highly regulated industry required
• Must be proficient in Microsoft Office
• Demonstrated experience negotiating priorities with multiple senior stakeholders
• Strong attention to detail, organizational skills, and the ability to multi-task to meet deadlines
• PMP and/or Agile certifications preferred
• Knowledge of SAP is preferred
• Ability to travel internationally is required