Sr. Project Manager – Global Regulatory Affairs

Sr. Project Manager – Global Regulatory Affairs

Requirements

• 8 + years of experience with a bachelor’s degree or 6 years with a masters degree in a strategic, operational, or leadership role.
• Experience in healthcare and technology industry
• Excellent knowledge of MS Office; proficient knowledge of program/project management software (e.g. MS Project, Smartsheet, JIRA, coordination tools) desired
• Exceptional project management, planning, decision making, negotiating and change management skills
• Skilled in all phases of the project lifecycle including idea generation, concept, design, and development
• Experience in studying tradeoffs between process design, customer needs/requirements and cost
• Demonstrated ability to synthesize data, set actionable goals and drive metrics and execution
• Experience with Business Process Management
• Experience with schedule, budget, cost and risk management tracking tools
• Regulatory and quality knowledge and experience
• Project management experience and cross functional expertise for partnership

Responsibilities

• Effectively manage cross-functional teams across departments and ensure the teams deliver against their commitments on time, within scope, and on-budget
• Manage the project plan by identifying critical path, constraints, contingencies and mitigations to achieve project goals. Escalate threats to project plan as required to functional management, senior leadership, and key global contributors
• Build ongoing partnership with the cross-functional teams to update weekly/monthly/quarterly reports on project status and ensure that cross-product dependencies are known, planned for, and crisply executed
• Provide regular updates on status, risks and mitigation plans to senior management as needed
• Identify opportunities for process improvements and synergies and improvement within the organization
• Develop KPIs and operational efficiency metrics, baselining activities and track the outcomes of these metrics or KPIs
• Assist in developing presentation narratives and drives/facilitates content creation for various forums, ensuring a robust communication cascade, cohesion of narrative and right sizing of the message to the audience (example: Reviews, quarterly updates, Town Hall, etc.)

Preferred Qualifications

• An MBA, project management certification (PMP, CSM), or other advanced degree is preferred.
• Nimble business mind, focused on developing clever solutions
• Proven project-reporting skills, with focus on interdepartmental communications
• International organization skills
• Creating cohesive and structured reporting dashboard
• Ability to work in a dynamic work environment
• Proven ability to drive, influence and work well at all levels of an organization and in a cross functional team environment
• Seeks, recognizes, and executes innovative and simple solutions to resolve complex project challenges; routinely steadies the team when stressed; manages by example
• Solid relationship building, customer focus and facilitation skills
• Excellent communication (written, verbal), presentation and documentation skills
• Exhibits proven adaptability and resilience, effectively managing changing priorities and maintaining composure in high-pressure environments to ensure project success