Project Manager II, IT
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Are you looking for an exciting opportunity to work within a dynamic, collaborative environment with a team committed to being industry leading? Are you a seasoned Project Manager with excellent Project management skills and proven experience in business change projects?
We will offer you a strong support network and an inspiring working environment coupled with competitive salary and benefits. We are looking for someone who in return can demonstrate drive, passion and a strong sense of team working, along with a desire to progress within our organisation. You will play a significant role in implementing ICON’s overall strategy by successfully delivering new or updated technologies and organizational change that achieves real business value and return on investment.
Job functions/Responsibilities
- Ensure that all projects are delivered to timelines, budget and scope. Strong delivery focus is key.
- Ensure that the appropriate structures, governance and communication are in place and managed.
- Create and update project plans, budgets and resource plans for project execution and for business case submissions. Perform assessments and due diligence on business cases.
- Responsible for managing, actively reporting on plan, budget, scope, resources, project decisions, risks, issues and dependencies. Maintain and present project metrics to senior management.
- Handle 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 return on investment. Advise on change management and adoption.
- Lead full handover to operational support and maintenance teams.
- Be actively involved in process improvement activities within the Project Management group
- Provide coaching, mentoring and personal development as required.
- Lead and run projects of all sizes (including portfolios or programmes if required), across all service lines.
Experience/skills/knowledge Requirements
- Prior relevant experience managing and successfully delivering 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 and external auditors.
- To provide valuable contributions by challenging assumptions, being enthusiastic, 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 handling custom developed (internal and external) solutions as well as off-the-shelf or configured solutions, including dealing with challenging vendors.
- Ability to lead and contribute to the creation of business cases, including vendor selection.
- Expertise in risk management and test strategy.
- Excellent leadership, documentation and presentation skills.
- To be able to align with company and Project Management processes, methodologies and training while working with minimal supervision.
- Negotiation and influencing skills.
- Conflict Resolution and Problem Solving.
- Agile, waterfall, hybrid methodologies.
- CRO / Pharma / Regulatory (including 21 CRF Part 11, SOX) experience an advantage.
- Education requirements
- Bachelor’s degree or local equivalent or equivalent work experience
- PM certification an advantage
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