Associate Project Manager

Associate Project Manager

Job Description

• Manages the development and implementation process of the company's products and services involving departmental or cross-functional teams focused on the delivery of new or existing products.
• Estimates project levels of effort and resource requirements by using standard estimating techniques and tools, and by working with appropriate staff to understand the scope of effort.;
• The Associate Project Manager prepares project plans, schedules, and budgets by using project management tools such as Microsoft Project and by working with appropriate staff to understand tasks necessary to complete the project.;
• Directs project execution by assigning tasks, tracking project schedules, identifying risks, and developing and executing contingency plans.;
• Assures project quality by using standard development methodologies
• Communicates project status by preparing standard status reports, and by participating in departmental and customer project status update meetings.;
• The Associate Project Manager resolves project issues by working with team members, project customers, and others as appropriate.;
• The Associate Project Manager consults with internal project groups by sharing project management knowledge and assisting or mentoring more junior project leaders in project management processes and techniques.
• Bachelor's degree plus 2-5 years of related work experience with a good understanding of the specified functional area, or a Master's degree with 0-2 years of related work experience, or an equivalent combination of education and work experience.

 
Job Skills

• Technical/Business Knowledge
• Working technical knowledge and application of concepts, practices, and procedures. General understanding of business unit/group function.
• Will perform this job in a quality system environment. Failure to adequately perform tasks can result in noncompliance with governmental regulations.;
• Cognitive Skills
• Works on problems of moderate scope where analysis of situations or data requires a review of identifiable factors.
• Exercises judgment within defined procedures and practices to determine appropriate action.
• Has a broad knowledge of technical alternatives and an understanding of their impact on the systems environment.
• This position is non-exempt.

 
About The Company:

• Our client is a globally diversified healthcare company with a central purpose to help people live their healthiest possible lives. They offer a broad portfolio of market-leading products that align with favorable long-term healthcare trends in both developed and developing markets. Working with this company, you'll tackle a wide array of problems including some of the world's greatest healthcare challenges while experiencing myriad cultures, geographies, and technologies. They are creating the future of healthcare through life-changing technologies and products that make you healthier and stronger, quickly identify when you have a medical need, and treat conditions to help you get back to doing what you love. It serves people in more than 160 countries with leading medical devices, diagnostics, nutrition products, and branded generic medicines. More than 110,000 of us are helping millions of people to live better and healthier, every day around the world.
• If you are looking for a great company to work for, look no further because our client has received an average of a four-star rating from its thousands of employees that have written positive reviews on Glassdoor and Indeed.