Job Description

Our client is looking for a experienced Project Manager to lead and coordinate basic project management responsilbilties and is looking for someone will have a robust background in project management, with proven expertise in overseeing complex projects. If you are looking to join a highly technical enviornment, this role may be the one for you!

Responsibilities:

• Facilitate and lead various types of meetings and presentations.
• Plan and manage multiple medium to large scale projects in accordance with the Project Management department’s methodology.
• Manage the most complex and/or largest projects, including project recovery activities to include consulting or taking over projects in crisis.
• Manage programs, including relationships and dependencies between projects and business unit initiatives.
• Track data across the entire portfolio, and maintain dashboards for reporting to executive leadership. Lead project review board meetings, as needed.
• Champion quality across the project management office, and foster collaboration and project reviews among all project managers and business leads.
• Provide mentorship and guidance to more junior or associate project managers. This may include direct and indirect supervision, performance appraisals, and goal development.
• Provide project management training and coaching to project management office and project leaders in the business units.
• Identify clearly the project's scope, business requirements, approach, stakeholders, schedule, risks, acceptance criteria, and more.
• Form and lead core teams of cross-functional/cross-subsidiary subject matter experts, build accurate project schedules, track tasks and report on project progress until the product, service, and/or capability is tested and launched.
• Integrate all aspects of the project, ensure that the proper knowledge and resources are available when and where needed and ensure that the expected results are produced in a timely, cost-effective manner.
• Resolve escalations/jeopardizes identified by project teams, and escalate to management when necessary for prompt resolution.
• Perform timely and accurate project status reporting to all project stakeholders. Maintain a repository of all project-related documents for use throughout the project. Perform ongoing coordination with vendors and client organizations.
• Participate in department strategic planning. Apply and measure department strategic goals to his/her own workload, when applicable.
• Manage vendor relationships for projects requiring an outside vendor.
• Keep project management knowledge and skills current by attending various training and professional development during the year.

Education/ Requirements

• Requires a Bachelor’s Degree from an accredited four-year college or university.
• PMP preferred
• Requires seven or more years of project management experience.
• Requires experience presenting and reporting to executive-level staff and project review boards.
• Prefer five or more years of engineering experience in Chemical, Mechanical or Industrial fields.
• Prefer three or more years in PMO setting experience.
• Prefer Project Management experience in a healthcare or life sciences environment.
• Prefer managing vendors and technologies experience.
• Prefer strong background in Lean and Six Sigma Methodologies.

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