Sr. Project Manager - San Diego, CA - San Antonio, TX or Franklin Lakes, NJ

Position: Sr. Project Manager

Location: San Diego, CA - San Antonio, TX or Franklin Lakes, NJ

Duration: 10+ Months Contract

Total Hours/week: 40.00

1st Shift

Client: Medical Device Company

Employment Type: Contract on W2 (Need US Citizens Or GC Holders Only)

No H1B's

• The candidate will also need to reside or live close by the following locations: San Diego, CA, San Antonio, TX or Franklin Lakes, NJ. We will be working a hybrid schedule where the candidate will have to be onsite during some time of the week.
  
  

Looking for someone who needs to give no more then 2 weeks notice.

Compliance, supply chain warehouse, Senior corporate PM. High level presentations. Present to executive VPs.

PMI and PMP strong preference.

Need to have IT background.

Travel is TBD

Sr. Project Manager Job Description

Qualifications Must Haves:

10+ years overall Sr. Project management experience.

7+ years leading global cross-functional corporate projects

5+ years leading IT project rollouts/cutover, business change management

Extensive knowledge of Supply Chain, Warehouse Management and ERP systems

Background in Information Technology

Experience in budget management

Work experience in compliance and regulatory processes and environment

Attention to detail and organization skills

Ability to be versatile managing projects

Effective communication/writing/presentation skills, ability to problem solve and strong collaboration skills.

5 years recent Life Science, Pharmaceutical and/or Health Care company experience

Preferred

PMP, or PgPM PMI Certification or equivalent

BS in Business Administration/Computer Sciences/Engineering or related degree that provides strong PM skill development.

Summary

The Sr. Project Manager works with executive and director level business leaders to understand the strategic objectives for major business change initiatives and define the tactical projects to realize these objectives. The Sr. Project Manager leads the projects through building effective relationships with business leaders, project team and project stakeholders. The Sr. Project Manager drives the delivery of the projects through advanced project management techniques and methodologies. The Sr. Project Manager balances the demands of multiple medium/large projects ($.5M - $1M) or larger programs ($1M-$10M).

Responsibilities

Project management on complex integration projects from beginning to end including all phases; planning, requirements, design, testing, training and cutover.

Create an integrated project plan with multiple workstreams.

Establish project governance structures and define processes for reporting, review, and approval of project goals and objectives.

Leads full life cycle project delivery with global workstreams

Deliver project and project documentation following PMI methodology

Takes ownership for delivering project objectives and deliverables. Drives project execution to meet project schedule, cost and quality requirements.

Manages internal and external customer relationships to realize high customer satisfaction for their projects.

Manages multiple workstreams within project to meet project objectives, executing and delivering quality results within project timeline and budget.

Implements company and industry best practice project methodology for delivering their projects.

Supports EPPM management in refining project management practices and implementing them throughout the ePMO.

Mentors project managers and project coordinators in project management best practices.

Competencies

Stakeholder Relationship demonstrated ability to identify key project stakeholders and understand their goals and motivations for the project. Adept at building stakeholder confidence that the project is meeting their needs through positive relationship management.

Leadership Skills and Presence - capable of building a leadership presence that inspires project stakeholders and team members to achieve the project objectives. Proactive in driving creative resolutions to project issues and risk. Team and people management leadership skills.

Team Building - experienced building cross functional teams in multiple geographies and diverse cultural backgrounds. Effective in creating a positive working environment that encourages collaboration and innovation. Driven to enable the project team to surface and resolve issues that affect project delivery.

Business Acumen seasoned understanding of the business drivers in multiple disciplines that influence project success. Solid business judgement to help drive decision making to reduce project risk and achieve project results.

Skills and Knowledge

Project Management Methodology

Knowledgeable in project management industry best practices.

Demonstrated experience driving projects from initiation through closure.

Adept at partnering with business sponsors and stakeholder to shape the project business case and gain organizational support and approval.

In depth understanding of the detailed project planning processes and tools. Skilled in establishing detailed scope, schedule, resources, and budget using standard project tools (MS Project/SharePoint/etc.).

Experienced establishing Stakeholder management plans, Risk/issue management plans, Vendor management plans and Quality plans.

Experienced establishing and following controls to manage scope change and reporting project schedule/budget performance.

Proactive in surfacing risks and issues. Ability to engage project team and stakeholder community to resolve issues and define risk mitigations. Effective in developing clear problem statements and resolution options for escalation to project sponsors and management.

Clear understanding of the processes to define and validate acceptance criteria for the project to ensure project completion acceptance.

Experience in Regulatory Assessment processes and document submission

Business Change Management

Understands the dynamics of implementing change in the business environment.

Experienced in helping the business team plan and drive change into their organization.

General knowledge of the techniques for designing changes to business processes impacted by the project.

Understanding how education, training and communications drive the effectiveness of the solution. Experienced working with business team members to ensure effective delivery to the impacted organizations.

Interpersonal Skills

Superior English-language verbal and written communications skills to interact with executive, business leaders and team members.

Ability to lead effective meetings/workshops. Creating meeting objectives, agendas, and timely distribution of meeting minutes.

Ability to manage meeting discussions to achieve meeting objectives and timeline.

Experienced in the techniques to work in a virtual/cross cultural meeting environment

Excellent time management skills. Able to work on multiple concurrent activities. Able to prioritize personal workload and team-work load to optimize project delivery.