Project Manager II, IT

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