Project Manager

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Nutrition • Diagnostics • Medical Devices • Branded Generic Pharmaceuticals

10,000+ employees

Founded 1888

⚕️ Healthcare Insurance

🧬 Biotechnology

💊 Pharmaceuticals

Description

•Project Manager manages the development and implementation process of company's products and services involving departmental or cross-functional teams. •Estimate project levels of effort and resource requirements by using standard estimating techniques and tools, and by working with appropriate staff. •Prepare project plans, schedule and budget by using project management tools such as Microsoft Project. •Direct project execution by assigning tasks, tracking project schedules, identifying risks, and developing and executing contingency plans. •Assure project quality by using standard development methodologies and by working with SQA to develop and execute project quality plans. •Communicate project status by preparing standard status reports, and by participating in departmental and customer project status update meetings. •Resolve project issues by working with team members, project customers, and others as appropriate. •Consult with internal project groups by sharing project management knowledge and assisting or mentoring more junior project leaders in project management processes and techniques. •Influence/Leadership-Understand business environment and relates extensive knowledge of internal and external technological activities to trends. •Interface with senior management on significant, often requiring the coordination of activity across organizational units. •Participates in the development of other technical contributors by facilitating training and providing feedback and guidance. •May lead a project team. Provide technical leadership to business units. •Act as a mentor to less-experienced staff and may provide work direction or supervise other technical employees. •Exercise judgment independently. Planning/Organization-Plan and organize project assignments of substantial variety and complexity. •Initiate or maintain schedule for projects and project milestones. Establish priorities of individual or project assignments. •Selects methods and techniques to lead a project to completion.

Requirements

•Bachelor’s degree in a related field •Minimum 8 years of Related work experience with a complete understanding of specified functional area. •Comprehensive knowledge of a particular technological field. •Uses in-depth knowledge of business unit functions and cross group dependencies/ relationships. •Perform this job in a quality system environment. •Works on complex problems where analysis of situations or data requires an in-depth evaluation of various factors. •Exercise judgment within broadly defined practices and policies in selecting methods, techniques and evaluation criteria for obtaining results. •Broad knowledge of various technical alternatives and their potential impact on the business.

Benefits

•Career development with an international company where you can grow the career you dream of. •Employees can qualify for free medical coverage in our Health Investment Plan (HIP) PPO medical plan in the next calendar year. •An excellent retirement savings plan with high employer contribution. •Tuition reimbursement, the Freedom 2 Save student debt program and FreeU education benefit - an affordable and convenient path to getting a bachelor’s degree. •A company recognized as a great place to work in dozens of countries around the world and named one of the most admired companies in the world by Fortune. •A company that is recognized as one of the best big companies to work for as well as a best place to work for diversity, working mothers, female executives, and scientists.