Overview
Description
Sr Technical Project ManagerSyneos Health® is a leading fully integrated biopharmaceutical solutions organization built to accelerate customer success. We translate unique clinical, medical affairs and commercial insights into outcomes to address modern market realities.
Every day we perform better because of how we work together, as one team, each the best at what we do. We bring a wide range of talented experts together across a wide range of business-critical services that support our business. Every role within Corporate is vital to furthering our vision of Shortening the Distance from Lab to Life®.
Discover what our 29,000 employees, across 110 countries already know.
WORK HERE MATTERS EVERYWHERE
Why Syneos Health
- We are passionate about developing our people, through career development and progression; supportive and engaged line management; technical and therapeutic area training; peer recognition and total rewards program.
- We are committed to our Total Self culture – where you can authentically be yourself. Our Total Self culture is what unites us globally, and we are dedicated to taking care of our people.
- We are continuously building the company we all want to work for and our customers want to work with. Why? Because when we bring together diversity of thoughts, backgrounds, cultures, and perspectives – we’re able to create a place where everyone feels like they belong.
Job Responsibilities
- Bachelor’s Degree, preferably with a technical concentration (e.g. Computer Science, etc)
- Relevant Pharmaceutical / CRO industry experience
- Ability to operate with limited oversight and needs to command the respect of a broad range of business and technology stakeholders.
- Considered an expert at risk mitigation, being able to not just develop mitigation plans for already known risks, but continually “peeling the onion” to find the risks in the project that have not yet been identified.
- Effective written and verbal communication skills
- Experience working with Sharepoint (or similar) project workspaces / document repositories
- Experience managing Commercial Off the Shelf (COTS) and / or Software as a Service (SaaS) projects, including integrations into and out of these systems, data migrations, etc
- Technically skilled Project Management professional comfortable managing the tasks of application engineers, database administrators, data architects, infrastructure, security, and other technical functions
- Must have experience working with local and virtual teams.
- Must have experience managing mixed internal/vendor and vendor-only project delivery teams
- Preferred – Systems Integration Consulting / Management Consulting experience
- Preferred - PMP Certification
- Preferred - Agile / Scrum system development lifecycle experience
Get to know Syneos Health
Over the past 5 years, we have worked with 94% of all Novel FDA Approved Drugs, 95% of EMA Authorized Products and over 200 Studies across 73,000 Sites and 675,000+ Trial patients.
No matter what your role is, you’ll take the initiative and challenge the status quo with us in a highly competitive and ever-changing environment. Learn more about Syneos Health.
http://www.syneoshealth.com
Additional Information
Tasks, duties, and responsibilities as listed in this job description are not exhaustive. The Company, at its sole discretion and with no prior notice, may assign other tasks, duties, and job responsibilities. Equivalent experience, skills, and/or education will also be considered so qualifications of incumbents may differ from those listed in the Job Description. The Company, at its sole discretion, will determine what constitutes as equivalent to the qualifications described above. Further, nothing contained herein should be construed to create an employment contract. Occasionally, required skills/experiences for jobs are expressed in brief terms. Any language contained herein is intended to fully comply with all obligations imposed by the legislation of each country in which it operates, including the implementation of the EU Equality Directive, in relation to the recruitment and employment of its employees. The Company is committed to compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act, including the provision of reasonable accommodations, when appropriate, to assist employees or applicants to perform the essential functions of the job.
Summary
Job responsibilities • Coordinates all key project meetings, phone calls, meeting rooms, etc.• Works with business stakeholders and vendors to finalize and get signoff on detailed scope of the project in line with the high level scope set forth in any Statements of Work (SoW) & project charters• Develops and gains signoff on the Project Strategy document, the “plan of plans”, including, but not limited to, the communications plan, project team structure, recurring meeting (including steering) frequency, etc.• Develops project timeline / schedule using Microsoft Project, following all STS standards, working with the appropriate STS teams (e.g. Application Engineering, Digital & Business Technology Innovation, Infrastructure, Security, etc.), vendor teams, and business teams• Ensures all required deliverables as set forth in the STS RACI are included in the overall project schedule• As necessary for applicable projects, collaborates with the STS Validation Manager to ensure the system’s validation needs are assessed and defined• Prepares for, and conducts, project kickoff presentation• Begins preparations for Service Readiness Planning (handoffs to Production Support) at the onset of the project• Manages overall scope of projects as defined in the project charter, including the scope, schedule, financials, etc. of any project-related SoWs• Manages overall project communications, including communications to executive stakeholders, STS colleagues, vendors, business stakeholders, and clients as needed• Maintains issues & risks logs, ensuring issues & risks are categorized and prioritized appropriately, working with project stakeholders on risk mitigation strategies and action plans for issues, and escalating / raising at appropriate times• Manages the project schedule, baselining it and getting sign-off on it when scope is finalized, and always managing actuals vs. forecast vs. baseline• Conducts regular (e.g. weekly), action-oriented, project status meetings with all key project stakeholders• As dictated by the scope of different projects, works in close collaboration with vendor resources, multiple business units, and all STS teams to ensure the project is getting executed and will deliver the baselined scope within budget and schedule• Ensures all key deliverables are being produced, stored in the appropriate repository, and when applicable, signed-off on• Prepares weekly status reports and monthly / bi-monthly steering committee presentations• In coordination with Finance, ensures purchase orders are closed• Ensures all project deliverables are housed in the project document repository• Manages all activities required for production cutover including a smooth handoff to Production Support and the associated decommissioning of any legacy systems / contracts• Obtains business acceptance of newly released production systems• In coordination with Finance, setup POs, track invoices, track actual / committed spend / accruals, etc.• Ensures cross-functional resources assigned to tasks for a given project are executing those tasks
- Pune, Maharashtra, India
- Pune, Maharashtra, India