IT Project Manager - 1386855_46528583812_12-4658

at Beacon Hill Staffing Group in Springfield, Illinois, United States

Job Description

• Ensure that all projects are delivered to timelines, budget and scope. Strong delivery focus is key.
• Ensure that the appropriate structures, governance, roles and communication are in place and managed.
• Develop and update project plans, budgets and resource plans for project execution and for business case submissions. Perform assessments and due diligence on business cases (including vendor contracts). Ensure they have been reviewed by other PMs or PMO leadership.
• Responsible for managing and pro-actively reporting on plan, budget, scope, resources, project decisions, risks, issues and dependencies. Maintain and present project metrics to senior management.
• Manage the relationship and overall engagement with implementation partners and vendors, as well as all stakeholders.
• Provide input on overall project business value, using experience and knowledge to enable the team to achieve stated objectives, benefits and ROI. Advise on change management and adoption and assist in tracking post implementation benefits as appropriate.
• Manage full handover to operational support and maintenance teams.
• Ensure projects are fully closed out, with all deliverables completed and approved.
• Be actively involved in process improvement activities within the Project Management group.
• Provide coaching, mentoring and personal development of others as required.
• Manage projects of all sizes (including portfolios or programmes if required), across all service lines.
• Manage the development of business cases if required.

• Prior relevant experience managing and successfully delivering large complex projects (including large, cross functional, geographically dispersed project teams) within a large company.
• Strong delivery and accountability ethos.
• Strong relationship management skills across all organizational levels. Ability to work with senior level stakeholders, clients, vendors and external auditors.
• To provide added value by challenging assumptions, being proactive, solution orientated and managing expectations.
• Understanding and experience in delivering organizational change as part of IT projects. Ability to quickly understand a business area and/or a problem.
• Experience in managing custom developed (internal and external) solutions as well as off-the-shelf or configured solutions, including dealing with challenging vendors.
• Experience in managing projects with multiple workstreams. Ability to assess and implement the optimal approach.
• Ability to manage and contribute to the creation of business cases, including vendor selection. Experience in negotiating vendor contracts.
• Expertise in risk management and test strategy.
• Excellent leadership, documentation and communication skills.
• To be able to comply with company and Project Management processes, methodologies and training while working with minimal supervision.
• Good negotiation and influencing skills.
• Conflict Resolution and Problem Solving.
• Agile, waterfall, hybrid and other methodologies.
• CRO / Pharma / Regulatory (including 21 CRF Part 11, SOX) experience an advantage.