We're on a mission to change the future of
clinical research. At Perceptive, we help the
biopharmaceutical industry bring medical
treatments to the market, faster.
Our mission is to change the world
but to do this, we need people like you.
Apart from job satisfaction, we can offer you:
HEALTH:
- Medical plan for you and your dependents.
- Personal Accident Insurance
- Life Insurance
- Critical illness cover
WEALTH:
- Salary structure and Flexi basket
- Provident fund of 12%
- Gratuity scheme
YOURSELF: Internal growth and development programs & trainings
Job Summary:
As Senior Project Manager, you will be responsible for managing the strategic development of projects. In this role, you will assist in ensuring that project/s run efficiently and effectively in the agreed timelines, scope and budget and you will engage with stakeholders managing all elements of the project. This role requires leadership skills and requires the ability to mentor staff as well as having the ability to manage and maintain project management records including undertaking a risk analysis.
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Key Accountabilities:
Project management
- Takes full responsibility for the definition, approach, facilitation and satisfactory completion of medium-scale projects (typically with direct business impact and firm deadlines).
- Identifies, assesses and manages risks to the success of the project.
- Ensures that realistic project plans are maintained and ensures regular and accurate communication to stakeholders.
- Adopts appropriate project management methods and tools whether predictive (plan-driven) approaches or adaptive (iterative/agile) approaches.
- Ensures Quality reviews occur on schedule and according to procedure.
- Manages the change control procedure and ensures that project deliverables are completed within agreed cost, timescale and resource budgets, and are signed off.
- Provides effective leadership to the project team and takes appropriate action where team performance deviates from agreed tolerances.
Release & deployment
- Assesses and analyses release components.
- Provides input to scheduling.
- Carries out the builds and tests in coordination with testers and component specialists maintaining and administering the tools and methods - manual or automatic - and ensuring, where possible, information exchange with configuration management.
- Ensures release processes and procedures are maintained.
Change management
- Assesses, analyses, develops, documents and implements changes based on requests for change.
Business risk
- Investigates and reports on hazards and potential risk events within a specific function or business area.
Financial management
- Advises on financial planning and budgeting.
- Develops financial plans and forecasts.
- Monitors and manages IT expenditure, ensuring that all IT financial targets are met, and examining any areas where budgets and expenditure exceed their agreed tolerances.
- Assists with the definition and operation of effective financial control and decision making, especially in the areas of service, projects and component cost models and the allocation and apportionment of all incurred IT costs.
- Analyses actual expenditure, explains variances, and advises on options in use of available budget.
Relationship management
- Implements stakeholder engagement/communications plan.
- Deals with problems and issues, managing resolutions, corrective actions, lessons learned and the collection and dissemination of relevant information.
- Collects and uses feedback from customers and stakeholders to help measure effectiveness of stakeholder management.
- Helps develop and enhance customer and stakeholder relationships.
Other
- Potential to supervise and mentor individuals in consideration of their career opportunities and contribution to the organization.
- Carryout any other reasonable duties as requested.
Skills:
- Excellent interpersonal, verbal and written communication skills.
- A flexible attitude with respect to work assignments and new learning.
- Ability to manage multiple and varied tasks with enthusiasm and prioritize workload with attention to detail.
- Shows initiative and self-confidence, is adaptable and is able to cope with changing and evolving priorities.
- Must have the ability to work methodically in a fast-paced, time-sensitive environment.
- Demonstrable ability to apply critical thinking to problems and tasks.
- Builds and maintains an in-depth knowledge of Project Management practices within the life sciences industry and how they affect customers adopting our products.
- Ability to define and implement appropriate strategies.
- Ability to identify and implement process improvements.
- Proactively participates in skills improvement training and encourages their teams to participate.
- Maintains an up-to-date awareness of trends, tools, technology, techniques and processes that affect technology within the Life sciences domain.
- A self-starter and able to work under own initiative.
- Natural coach/mentor who leads by example with an approachable demeanor.
Knowledge and Experience:
- Experience using tools to communicate progress to Stakeholders.
- Experience working in and knowledge of the life sciences and regulatory sectors.
- Solid Professional experience in the same or very similar role.
- Proven working experience of project management methodologies (such as Prince2, Agile, Lean Six Sigma).
Education:
- Bachelor's Degree in a technical discipline (Maths, Science, Engineering, Computing, etc.) or a related study, or equivalent project-related experience
- English: Fluent
Come as you are.
We're proud to be a Equal Employment Opportunity employer. We do not discriminate based upon race, religion, color, national origin, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, or other applicable legally protected characteristics.