Senior Project Manager, IT PMO (Remote)

SENIOR PROJECT MANAGER, IT PMO (Remote)

Position Summary:

We are looking for a driven self-starter with strong communication skills and the ability to manage aggressive timelines, competing priorities, and challenging stakeholders. This Senior Project Manager is responsible for supporting the IT PMO by leading teams to deliver projects that span across one or more business units. This role will manage resources, schedules, and financials throughout the full systems development life cycle. This also includes management of issues, risks, and project change requests to ensure successful and on-time project delivery. The Senior Project Manager, IT PMO will contribute to process improvement initiatives as it relates to improving project delivery.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Manages the end-to-end project or program lifecycle for multiple complex initiatives, and meet the required business objectives with minimal supervision
• Works closely with business functions and ensure alignment to timelines, cost and deliverables
• Creates and motivates cross-functional & cross-departmental project teams, establishes roles and responsibilities, provides direction, fosters effective team skills, and ensures that project objectives are reached on time and within budget
• Identifies the need for and creates/implements improvements to continuously improve the Project Management service capabilities in the organization
• Demonstrates effective Project Management skills through the development of project plans, resource allocation, plan execution, consistent communications with project team members and stakeholders, status reviews, and delivery of agreed upon results
• Ability to deal with unstructured, complex Projects or Programs that will require effective communication and negotiation skills in order to define and gain agreement on appropriate actions
• Delivers cost-effective, high quality Projects or Programs on-time through application of PM guidelines and standards (best practices) and effective controls while meeting requisite compliance requirements (Sarbanes-Oxley, GxP etc.)
• Serves as the primary point of contact for all communications within IT, Business teams, and any third party involved in the Project or Program - effectively communicates relevant information to key stakeholders as per defined Communications plan
• Demonstrated ability to establish strong working relationships with team members
• Ability to lead and motivate team members to complete tasks on time
• Reports on project success criteria results, metrics, test and deployment management activities

Qualifications:

• 6+ years of project management experience with complex projects in Biotech/Pharma
• Experience managing GxP and SOX projects
• Demonstrated communication skills, including the ability to clearly communicate ideas
• Proven leadership skills
• Ability to balance and prioritize multiple projects and priorities
• Bachelor’s degree in a technical area of study desired

Fit with GBT culture:

• Ability to build strong relationships with co-workers of various backgrounds and expertise
• Ability to function at a high level in a team setting whether leading the group or acting as an individual contributor
• Values-based leadership consistent with GBT's Core Values
• Excitement about the vision and mission of GBT
• Flexibility
• Integrity

NOTE:  This position summary is not intended to be all-inclusive. Employee may perform other related duties as negotiated to meet the ongoing needs of the organization.

The Company complies with all laws respecting equal employment opportunity and does not discriminate against applicants with regard to any protected characteristic as defined by federal, state, and local law.  This position may require you to work onsite or interact in person with customers of the Company and/or work onsite from time to time at the Company’s facilities.  The Company requires all employees working in its facilities (including attending in-person meetings and events) to be fully vaccinated from COVID-19 (except as required by applicable law).  Therefore, this position requires you to be fully vaccinated from COVID-19, subject to reasonable accommodations for a disability/medical condition or sincerely-held religious belief, and/or as otherwise required by applicable law.  The Company considers you fully vaccinated once 14 days have passed since you received either the second dose in a two-dose COVID-19 vaccine series or a single-dose COVID-19 vaccine. This position requires you to maintain a fully-vaccinated status against COVID-19, subject to reasonable accommodations required by applicable law. The vaccine must have been FDA approved, have emergency use authorization from the FDA, or, for persons fully vaccinated outside of the U.S., be listed for emergency use by the World Health Organization.