Senior IT Project Manager - Pharma

Key responsibilities

• Oversee project lifecycle, from initiation through to transition into operations, within scope and budget.
• Lead cross-organizational teams and manage collaborations with stakeholders from the mother company and third parties.
• Develop project strategies, roadmaps, and plans for application implementation and data migration.
• Ensure compliance with industry regulations and company governance.
• Identify risks and implement mitigation strategies to ensure project success.

Key success criteria

• Commitments to outcomes with confidence
• Project delivery to expected outcomes within given constraints
• Effective and productive relationships with all stakeholders and the ability to influence without authority

Required core skills and capabilities

The ideal candidate demonstrates the following skills and capabilities:

• Important: Must be a highly-motivated self-starter able to juggle multiple priorities

• Results-focus and passion for disciplined delivery

• Focuses on people over process and outcomes over artifacts

• Understands and effectively uses different project management approaches

• Understands adaptive and agile project management concepts and has a record of successfully applying the approaches in project delivery

• Has strong communication, team-building, influencing and collaboration skills at all levels

• Successfully anticipates, mitigates and resolves risks and conflict, escalating promptly when necessary

• Basic leadership skills and demonstrated ability to motivate a global, intra-discipline project team

• Uses collaboration-style decision making

• Effectively uses project management tools to facilitate decision making and enhance communication, and has a proactive approach to project delivery

• Demonstrated ability to successfully work with vendors

Qualifications

• University Degree
• 5+ years of experience in a project delivery role accountable for outcomes
• Formal training in project management methodologies
• Professional certification strongly preferred (PMP, PMI-ACP, Scrum Master)
• Experience with use of agile and adaptive project management approaches
• Basic skills in the use of project execution software (e.g., Jira, Planner, Planview, etc.)
• Experience leading project teams of technical, scientific and business associates desirable
• Experience implementing IT solutions, platforms and infrastructure

What We Offer

• An opportunity to be at the forefront of pharmaceutical innovation.
• A collaborative and inclusive work environment with a focus on personal and professional growth
• Home office with occasional visits in Prague office
• One year full time freelance contract with possibility of extension
• Projectman Care package and support from professionals from our community

Join us in shaping the future of healthcare in Prague.