We are hiring. IT Project Manager contract position
Job Purpose: The IT Project Manager will lead, oversee and ensure the successful delivery and management of single or multiple projects. The Project Manager must do this within scope, to a certain quality, and within time and cost constraints. These factors may be clearly defined or may require dynamic change management to deliver business value.
Main Duties and Responsibilities: - Analyze project proposals to determine time frame, funding limitations and appropriate process for accomplishing projects.
- Identify and schedule project deliverables, milestones, and required activities and tasks.
- Provide leadership and motivation to project team members throughout the project life cycle and confer with project staff to outline a work plan.
- Establish a work plan and staffing for project activities, iterations or phases, and arrange for recruitment or assignment of project personnel.
- Implement a project communication plan.
- Perform risk assessment and implement mitigation plans.
- Monitor project activities, ensuring the currency, quality and integrity of information, while providing consistency in content and "look and feel" across the organization.
- Ensure that project goals are in line with business objectives.
- Ensure that project goals are achieved.
- Assign duties and responsibilities to project personnel and define the scope of their authority.
- Direct and coordinate the activities of project personnel to ensure projects progress on schedule and within budget.
- Review status reports prepared by project personnel and modify schedules or plans as required.
- Establish standards and procedures for project reporting and documentation.
- Benchmark project management performance continuously to identify the potential for improvements and increase capability in project and portfolio management.
- Understand technical options, limitations, costs, and risks. Communicate tradeoffs to business stakeholders.
- Work with business and delivery teams to prioritize requirements according to project goals.
- Help resolve competing priorities between stakeholder groups by facilitating stakeholder discussions and escalate issues where appropriate.
- Explore new ways to increase customer or client satisfaction.
Required Qualifications - Bachelor's degree in Business or related field
- Proficient in Microsoft Office suite/ Office 365
- Strong written and verbal communication skills,
- Understanding of Technology solutions, e.g. Web Services, Cloud compute.
Desired Qualifications - Experience with agile development methodologies and agile planning tools such as Jira and Azure DevOps
- Familiarity with project management methodologies (for example, that of the Project
- Management Institute, PRINCE2 and agile approaches)
- Sensitivity to working in a political environment and to interacting with senior leadership
- Strong problem resolution, negotiation, and influencing skills
- Exceptional verbal and written communication skills. Experience preparing and presenting on Project proposals, progress, benefits and risks
- Expertise in setting and managing customer expectations
- Distinctive blend of business, IT, financial and communication skills. This blend is vital because this is a highly visible position with substantial impact
- Effective influencing and negotiating skills in an environment where this role may not directly control resources
- Strong knowledge and understanding of business needs, with the ability to establish and maintain a high level of customer trust and confidence
- Ability to develop and execute a project resource plan that ensures that the right people are in the right place doing the right things at the right time
- 3+ years' of experience in related industry - Clinical Trials/ Logistics
- Knowledge of Clinical Trial Systems (EDC, IRT, CTMS), Good Clinical Practice and related industry regulations