Duration: 6 months to start

Job Description
Overview:
The Senior Project Manager will be responsible for managing cross functional projects in the Quality organization - including organizing teams, managing project schedules, developing project metrics, and developing material that will be presented in governance meetings. This role will collaborate with Clinical Operations and Clinical Development stakeholders, as well as with other senior leadership within the Quality organization and within the Business Operations PMO.

Responsibilities:

• Ensure deliverables are monitored to the agreed upon timelines
• Work with teams to resolve and find solutions to challenges as they come up, escalate project and scheduling challenges that are unable to be resolved
• Speak to strategy and risk mitigation beyond just execution of tasks 
• Collaborate with teams to develop metrics to measure progress and highlight any areas of focus
• Set-up and facilitate routine meetings to drive the project and create awareness
• Create meeting materials used for project status updates at governance meetings.
• Project management experience in biopharmaceutical or biotechnology industry, specifically in Quality space
• Demonstrated proficiency in managing large-scale, complex projects
• Experience interfacing with high-level stakeholders (VPs)
• Bachelor’s degree in life sciences, computer science, economics or other discipline requiring quantitative skills preferred
• Demonstrated leadership presence 
• Flexibility, humility and tenacity
• Excellent presentation skills and ability to clearly and succinctly express ideas
• Experience facilitating project meetings and effectively and respectfully holding team members accountable for status, deliverables and the timely escalation of blockers
• Unfailing commitment to representing project status in an accurate and timely manner, weekly or in near real time when changes occur
• Demonstrate an analytical, objective, and strategic mindset and a drive to learn new technologies
• Analyze processes and systems, identifying potential for change
• Possess an understanding of technology solutions implemented in the past
• Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written
• Experience practicing project feature prioritization and backlog grooming methods
• Experience with Project and Portfolio Management (PPM) tools and reports (ie. Microsoft Suite, Smartsheet, etc).