Project Manager- Supply Chain

SUMMARY
Oversee, manage and coordinate all operational aspects of ongoing department projects impacting multiple departments. Serves as liaison between project team and department.

FUNCTIONS
- Manage all aspects of project(s): planning, implementation, monitoring, completion, and follow-up.
- Manage competing timelines and prioritize critical tasks. Establish and achieves project standards for work quality and quantity.
- Assess project issues and develop solutions to meet scientific, productivity, quality and client satisfaction goals and objectives.
- Assist in technical, financial, and organizational issues by researching issues, providing recommendations and maintaining document archives.
- Maintain and track project budget(s).
- Reconcile the use of resources for the projects.
- Identify and anticipate schedule slips or changes and analyzes the costs and resource impact.
- Implement tools, techniques and processes to provide or create information to enable informed decision making within the teams.
- Actively participate in directing the evolution and defining the role of the project.
- Ensure the project goals and objects are well understood by the various functional areas.
- Liaison with department staff, sub or satellite team leaders and members to obtain their continued input and feedback on the benefits, needs, and issues associated with the project.
- Maintain the master project plan and schedule for assigned projects.
- Recommend and develop operational or process improvements for the performance and successful functioning of the project team.
- Provide department management with project management support on an as needed basis as well as for special projects.
- May manage and direct the activities of project support staff.
- Conduct annual performance reviews, and provides career counseling and general guidance.
- Identify or lead focus area projects within the overall function of project management or related projects.
- Generate periodic updates and prepare formal presentations for required forums.
- Generate individual and more complex reports utilizing various resources.
- Ensure project work complies with domestic (may also involve international) regulatory requirements and approved guidelines relevant to area of responsibility.
- Ensure project work complies with practices, policies and standard operating procedures.
- Participate in required meetings, activities, and related projects and relevant interdepartmental activities.
- Anticipate resource needs and communicate to management sponsors.
**Other functions that may be assigned.

EDUCATION/LICENSES
- Doctorate degree OR Master's degree and 2 years of Project Management experience OR Bachelor's degree and 4 years of Project Management experience or Associate’s degree and 10 years of Project Management experience or High school diploma / GED and 12 years of Project Management experience

COMPETENCIES/SKILLS
- Skills in handling multiple responsibilities, priorities, tasks, and projects simultaneously.
- Skills in working under time pressure, and effectively in a team matrix environment.
- Practical project management software and spreadsheet skills, proficient computer operation skills.
- Effective interactions in a team or matrixes environment.
- Good organizational skills, detail-oriented & accurate, analytical skills.
- Team player, self-starter, persistent, tactful, and persuasive.
- Effective verbal and written communication skills (writing and presentations).
- Ability to assume increasing levels of responsibility.

Are there specific educational/software requirements needed?

Doctorate degree OR Master's degree and 2 years of Project Management experience OR Bachelor's degree and 4 years of Project Management experience or Associate’s degree and 10 years of Project Management experience or High school diploma / GED and 12 years of Project Management experience

What attributes (i.e. - preferred qualifications) would make this candidate stand out?

Experience as Project Manager, Pharmaceutical and/or Supply Chain experience preferred
Smartsheet
Presentations skills
Microsoft Office: Word, Excel, Power Point, Microsoft Project

PMP Certification (preferably)