USA-Project Manager III (Professional)

Company: TalentBurst
Location: Cambridge
Posted on: May 27, 2023

Job Description:

Job Description

Client: Biotechnology
Title: Project Manager III
Location: Cambridge, MA - 02141 (Hybrid onsite 2-3 days per week)
Duration: 07 months (+Possibilities of extension)
This role will assist with new services across America, working with vendors; Additionally, work with internal departments with include: Facilities management, procurements, the HSE team, Real Estate

Description:
--- We are looking for a self-motivated and self-starter, collaborative change agent with a passion for technology to support R&D North America Operations. 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 R&D Operations initiatives.
--- Act as the point of contact and subject matter expert for R&D Operations
--- 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 R&D Operations 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 community's needs, sharing best practices, insights, ways of working and tools to enable scientific collaboration and R&D processes
--- Identifies issues to be raised with Head of Scientific Services for NA and Head of R&D NA- and proposes solutions and mitigation plans

Education and experience:
--- Bachelor's 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 R&D 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.

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