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• India - Bengaluru
• Project / Program Management
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• Regular Full-Time
• 2529
  
  

Emmes Global

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Job Description

Emmes Group: Building a better future for us all.

Emmes Group is transforming the future of clinical research, bringing the promise of new medical discovery closer within reach for patients. Emmes Group was founded as Emmes more than 47 years ago, becoming one of the primary clinical research providers to the US government before expanding into public-private partnerships and commercial biopharma. Emmes has built industry leading capabilities in cell and gene therapy, vaccines and infectious diseases, ophthalmology, rare diseases, and neuroscience.

We believe the work we do will have a direct impact on patients’ lives and act accordingly. We strive to build a collaborative culture at the intersection of being a performance and people driven company. We’re looking for talented professionals eager to help advance clinical research as we work to embed innovation into the fabric of our company. If you share our motivations and passion in research, come join us!

Primary Purpose

The Senior Project Manager, Initiatives is responsible for the project life cycle for various organizational initiatives, some of which are listed in the Emmes Strategic Scorecard. This position works closely with members of the Executive and Operations Team, who serve as Executive Sponsors of initiatives. This position is expected to hold information confidential and act as a trusted confidant of Executives.

The Senior Project Manager, Initiatives will manage all aspects of assigned initiatives of varying complexity and medium to large size by assembling work groups, assigning individual responsibilities, identifying needed resources, developing schedules to ensure timely project completion, identifying critical capabilities, project resources, budgets, risks and critical path issues. As the senior member of the team, this position provides training, coaching and mentoring to junior team members, and manages direct reports

Responsibilities

• Manages overall initiative lifecycle, including the day-to-day activities of planning, coordinating, implementing, monitoring, documenting, and completing assigned initiatives across global teams.
• Monitors initiatives to ensure initiative framework processes are being followed and project management best practices are being used, including reporting on metrics related to initiative health, completion of milestones on time and within budget, and adoption of effective change management processes.
• Coordinates tasks and communication within and across teams and develops presentation materials for projects and executives.
• Partners with business leaders to ensure alignment of initiative scope and deliverables with business and corporate strategies.
• Facilitates or leads initiative meetings to develop efficient and effective future state outcome and to identify deliverables needed to ensure initiative goals are met.
• Works with Business Analyst Manager to develop an effective change management plan for assigned initiatives, then serves as the change agent champion and lead the execution of the change management plan.
• Compiles and provides monthly initiative status reports, KPIs and metrics related to health of assigned initiatives to executive sponsors, stakeholders, and peers, including key updates, cost, schedule, status, and risks.
• Exercises independent discretion and judgment to solve complex problems regarding project, department, or division-related work.
• Promotes, develops, and maintains disciplined initiative project management models and frameworks (and related tools and processes) across Emmes and its subsidiaries; ensures adherence, adoption, implementation, and review of lessons learned.
• Initiates and shares learning opportunities for the initiative team to continue to grow as professionals.
• Coordinates activities with Business Analyst and/or Application Analyst assigned to initiative.
• Assists with tracking project expenditure.
• Provides training, coaching, and mentoring to junior team members.
• Provides management to direct reports and leadership to full team.
• Manages vendor relationships during vendor-run implementations.
• Performs other duties as assigned.
  
  

Qualifications

• Undergraduate degree in business or humanities field preferred.
• 10+ years of project/program/portfolio management experience with demonstrated increase
• in responsibility and project complexity, including managing enterprise level business and technology transformation projects as well as resource management, financial management, and/or budget analysis.
• PMP or equivalent certification and a proven track record of successfully managing projects in a fast-paced business.
• Experience building customer and stakeholder relationships with a focus on problem resolution.
• Experience explaining technical terms to non-technical staff.
• Exceptional project management skills with ability to multitask and manage multiple projects across diverse global teams in a highly matrixed environment.
• Demonstrated planning and project management skills.
• Excellent listening, communication, presentation, interpersonal skills, both written and verbal, with an ability to inform, influence, convince and persuade.
• Strong skills in prioritization, organization, decision-making, time management, and planning.
• Ability to drive to tangible results in a timely manner even when the work involves a highlevel of ambiguity.
• Skilled in facilitating meetings with multiple stakeholders, including building consensus, motivation, and managing conflict.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and troubleshooting skills; with the ability to collect, organize, analyze, and disseminate significant amounts of information with attention to detail and accuracy.
• Ability to demonstrate strategic thinking capability, exercise good judgement, make sound decisions, and escalate issues/decision making as appropriate.
• Knowledge of technology concepts including Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), process improvement, and agile methodologies is preferred.
• Experience in O365, Smartsheet or MS Project, and Jira is preferred.
  
  

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