Project Manager

Company: LHH Recruitment Solutions
Location: Cambridge
Posted on: May 26, 2023

Job Description:

LHH is recruiting for a contract Project Manager for one of our Cambridge, Massachusetts clients. This role is Hybrid and will report onsite 2-3 days per week. This role can pay $65-$70 an hour.

Description:
We are looking for a self-motivated and self-starter, collaborative change agent with a passion for technology. The position will operate in a highly cross-functional and collaborative team that drives strategy and execution of multiple projects in a fast-paced environment.

Responsibilities:
Lead project management efforts to support the implementation and continuous process improvement efforts related to scientific services and other initiatives.
Act as the point of contact and subject matter expert.
Ensures communication from the project team to all stakeholders of various functions and sub-teams as needed. This includes project reports, key activities, and timely alerts.
Facilitate decision making, ensuring alignment with project team members, functional representatives, and other key stakeholders.
Develop scenario alternatives, identifies risks, and propose mitigation plans, and manages variances in timings, resources and budget and ensures integrity of the portfolio and governance.
Responsible for developing appropriate KPIs and measuring the success of each project/ service, ensuring engagement and that project priorities are communicated to all relevant stakeholders.
Provide regular updates/highlights including KPIs and project alerts. Contributes actively to dashboards reporting for established Governance committees and ad-hoc meetings as requested.
Act as a catalyst for productivity, monitoring the scientific communitys needs, sharing best practices, insights, ways of working and tools to enable scientific collaboration and processes.
Identifies issues to be raised wand proposes solutions and mitigation plans.

Education and experience:
Bachelors degree in Life Sciences, Business Administration, Engineering, Data Science or related discipline with a minimum of 10 years of relevant experience (MBA preferred) across different functional groups preferred.
Good knowledge of the Biopharmaceutical industry, processes and ecosystems preferred.
Project Management certification preferred, with demonstrated experience working with cross functional, diverse and multicultural teams.
Proven leadership, capacity to coordinate several activities and stakeholders including external partners, if relevant.
Expertise in managing large and complex projects and in managing global, multicultural development teams.

Equal Opportunity Employer/Veterans/Disabled

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