IT Project Manager III

GILDJP00016796- IT Project Manager-III- Santa Monia - CA

Pay range: $102.18- 109.48

Client, a Client Company

Client, a Client company, is a biopharmaceutical company engaged in the development of innovative cancer immunotherapies with a goal of providing rapid, long-term durable responses and eliminating the burden of chronic care. The company is focused on chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) and T cell receptor (TCR) engineered cell therapies designed to empower the immune systems ability to recognize and kill tumors. With an unrelenting drive and a singular focus on cell therapy, the Client team is executing on their strategy to bring life-saving therapies to patients.

The Position

Client requires the services of a Contract Senior IT Project Manager who will organize and facilitate project teams in completing deliverables according to schedule and in managing each project for successful overall outcomes.

The Senior IT Project Manager will work with designated project teams, IT functions, and business team members to enable prioritized system capabilities that improve Clients related business operations.

The candidate will be required to lead delivery across multiple concurrent project workstreams, at different phases in their lifecycle. They must be comfortable with ambiguity and have strong ability to bring order and discipline to projects that engage many cross-functional stakeholders and delivery partners.

This individual will be responsible for ensuring successful project execution from initiation to delivery, while acting as a key liaison between internal cross-functional teams and external stakeholders across multiple geographically dispersed locations.

The candidate will be a key point of contact across multiple IT project workstreams to ensure that dependencies are tracked and risks escalated in a timely manner to the correct stakeholders. The candidate will report at a program level on the status of IT project workstreams, the interdependencies, and the risks.

The candidate must possess strong communication skills and must be savvy working with both technology and business partners across the organization in a collaborative manner.

Essential Duties and Job Functions

• Fulfill Project Management responsibility through full delivery life cycle.
• Develop and maintain comprehensive project plans, including timelines, milestones, resource allocations, and cross-team dependencies.
• Lead and coordinate phase gate reviews, ensuring all required deliverables and cross-functional inputs are prepared, evaluated, and approved to advance the project through each stage of the governance process.
• Provide oversight and coordination of project activities across multiple teams (including vendor and delivery partners), ensuring alignment with overall project goals and objectives.
• Monitor progress on projects, identify potential risks and issues, and implement appropriate mitigation strategies.
• Organize, plan, and facilitate business workshops to bring stakeholders together with different viewpoints for alignment.
• Provide input into areas of concern and direction or redirection to enhance achievement of schedules, productivity goals, budgets, quality, and overall success of the project.
• Identify opportunities for process improvement and optimization.
• Manage all aspects of project communication and ensure regular communication with all stakeholder groups in a consistent and timely manner.
• Communicate regularly with key cross-functional stakeholders, including project sponsors, senior management, and vendors across dispersed geographies and time zones.
• Run project performance management and governance ceremonies, including steering committees, status reviews, and stand-ups.
• Independently develop and maintain requisite project management documentation to a high standard, in line with specified Client / Client standards.
• Collaborate with Corporate Finance to ensure IT compliance with deadlines across the PM community.
• Qualified candidates should be self-motivated, organized, passionate, proactive in identifying and addressing potential challenges, and collaborative in driving solutions.

Basic Qualifications
Senior IT Project Manager with a proven track record of delivering complex, cross-functional programs.
Bachelors Degree and 8 Years Experience OR Masters Degree and 6 Years Experience.
Proven enterprise level experience enabling high performing dispersed and global teams across multiple locations and vendors.
Advanced proficiency in Project life cycles and approaches (i.e. waterfall, agile, iterative development).
Proficiency in Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint.
Excellent written, verbal communication and interpersonal skills working at different levels, including senior-level management up to executive level and key stakeholders.
Strong sense of ownership and pride in high performance.

• Preferred Qualifications
  Familiar with Unified Namespace (UNS) concepts and building data taxonomy/naming standards.
  Experience deploying GxP projects and system integrations.
  Understanding of Medical Affairs business function.
  Experience in life-science industry.
  PMP certification