Our client, a leading pharmaceutical company, is hiring a Program Manager, on a contract basis.
Job ID #: 81336
Work Location:
Lawrenceville, NJ – 50% on site
Role:
Program Manager – Business Capability – Lead
Responsibilities:
- Lead a group of project managers to execute on their assigned program and associated child projects supporting the digital capability (DC) objectives of their Business Unit group/function, delivering value faster, in an incremental fashion.
- Oversee planning and execution of a large, complex program and associated child projects in their Business Units DC group/functional portfolio to deliver on intended outcomes while collaborating on evolving ideas and discovery of new requirements to maximize return on investments.
- Identify dependencies, evaluate risks and communicate status to appropriate levels of management and stakeholders across assigned program and associated child projects.
- Ensure program and project deliverables, schedules, and financials adhere to established norms and are managed in alignment with departmental best practices across their assigned program and associated child projects.
- Periodically evaluate performance and develop action plans to ensure achievement of performance goals.
- Monitor and control schedule and financial health of their assigned program and associated child projects and provide actionable insights to key stakeholders.
- Proactively remove obstacles to drive assigned programs and their associated child projects momentum and progress. Engage and energize the program/project teams.
- Plan and engage necessary resources across the enterprise to ensure successful completion of assigned program and their associated child projects.
- Manage five or more vendors providing services to the program ensuring they meet their execution milestones and remain within their funding estimates.
- Prepares all program status reports and documentation to keep project sponsors and steering committee informed of project progress and potential risks/roadblocks so they can take appropriate action.
- Actively engage stakeholders and project managers of problem projects to assist with identifying corrective actions.
- Co-lead setup of program management and governance structures in collaboration with IT Business Partners (IT BPs) and Digital Capability Managers (DCMs).
- Advise and consistently apply Project Management best practices (including Agile, SDLC and PMF) and tools. Continuously improve our adoption and maturity of best practices across IT.
- Provide support to IT BPs and DCMs in management of program/project financials, vendor management and procurement.
- Collaborate with ITBPs, DCMs & Portfolio Managers on business case development for DC investments, translating PM experience & insights into improved estimates and outcomes.