Sr IT Project Manager (Veeva)
Company: Syneos Health/ inVentiv Health Commercial LLC
Location: Morrisville
Posted on: March 17, 2023
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Job Description:
Description Senior IT Project Manager
Syneos Health is the only fully integrated biopharmaceutical
solutions organization purpose-built to accelerate customer
success. We lead with a product development mindset, seamlessly
connecting our capabilities to add high-value insights to speed
therapies to patients and provide practical value to help our
customers achieve their objectives.
Every day we perform better because of how we work together, as one
team, each the best at what we do. We bring a wide range of
talented experts together across a wide range of business-critical
services that support our business. Every role within Corporate is
vital to furthering our vision of Shortening the Distance from Lab
to Life.
Discover what our 29,000 employees, across 110 countries already
know:
WORK HERE MATTERS EVERYWHERE
Why Syneos Health
Job responsibilities
* Coordinates all key project meetings, phone calls, meeting rooms,
etc.
* Works with business stakeholders and vendors to finalize and get
signoff on detailed scope of the project in line with the
high-level scope set forth in any Statements of Work (SoW) &
project charters
* Following applicable IT SOPs and policies, works with the
appropriate IT, vendor team, and business teams to develop the
project timeline / schedule to deliver the project
* Ensures all required deliverables are included in the overall
project schedule and are completed by the project
* As necessary for applicable projects, collaborates with the
Validation Manager to ensure the system's validation needs are
assessed and defined
* Prepares for and conducts the project kickoff meeting
* Begins preparations for Service Readiness Planning (handoffs to
Production Support) at the onset of the project
* Manages overall scope of the project as defined in the project
charter, including the scope, schedule, financials, etc.
* Manages overall project communications, including communications
to executive stakeholders, IT colleagues, vendors, business
stakeholders, and clients as needed
* Manages overall financials (more below) of the project, ensuring
key financial information is always up to date in the IT project
portfolio
* Maintains issues & risks logs, ensuring issues & risks are
categorized and prioritized appropriately, working with project
stakeholders on risk mitigation strategies and action plans for
issues, and escalating / raising at appropriate times
* Manages the project schedule, baselining it and getting sign-off
on it when scope is finalized, and always managing actuals vs.
forecast vs. baseline
* Conducts regular (e.g. weekly), action-oriented, project status
meetings with all key project stakeholders
* As dictated by the scope of the project, works in close
collaboration with vendor resources, multiple business units, and
all IT teams to ensure the project is getting executed and will
deliver the baselined scope within budget and schedule
* When necessary, gets involved in tasks to ensure their quality
and success
* Ensures all key deliverables are being produced, stored in the
appropriate repository, and when applicable, signed-off on
* Prepares weekly status reports (SharePoint) and monthly /
bi-monthly steering committee presentations (as required)
* In coordination with Finance, ensures purchase orders are
closed
* Ensures all project deliverables are housed in the project
document repository (SharePoint)
* Manages all activities required for production cutover including
a smooth handoff to Production Support and the associated
decommissioning of any legacy systems / contracts
* Obtains business acceptance of newly released production
systems
* Conducts lessons learned / postmortem meeting with IT, business,
and vendor resources
* Manages overall project finances as defined in the approved
Investment Request Form (IRF)
* In coordination with Finance, setup purchase orders, track
invoices, track actual / committed spend / accruals, etc.
* Ensures resources assigned to tasks for a given project are
executing those tasks
* Identifies out of line situations and takes appropriate actions
to remedy them
* Is expected to fully understand the goals of the project and
means of achieving them while providing the leadership needed to
accomplish them
* Works with the project team and stakeholders to ensure a smooth
transition of the project's solution into productive use.
#LI-KW1
Qualifications What we're looking for
* Professional system implementation / project management
experience & professional experience managing information
technology projects.
* Bachelor's Degree, preferably with a technical concentration
(e.g., Computer Science, etc.)
* Relevant Pharmaceutical / CRO industry experience
* Exposure to a broad range of technologies (infrastructure,
application) desired
* Ability to convey technical matters to non-technical stakeholders
in an understandable way
* Ability to operate with limited oversight and needs to command
the respect of a broad range of business and technology
stakeholders.
* Ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously if
necessary
* Proficient at recognizing and defining risks and developing
response and mitigation plans for them.
* Effective written and verbal communication skills
* Proficient with Microsoft Project and common Microsoft Office
applications (e.g., Excel, Power Point, Word, One Note)
* Experience working with SharePoint (or similar) project
workspaces / document repositories
* Experience managing Commercial Off the Shelf (COTS) and / or
Software as a Service (SaaS) projects, including integrations into
and out of these systems, data migrations, etc.
* Technically skilled Project Management professional comfortable
defining and managing the tasks of architects, business analysts,
developers, database administrators, infrastructure, security, and
other technical functions
* Proficient at forecasting and managing project spend
* Must have experience working with local and virtual teams.
* Must have experience managing mixed internal/vendor and
vendor-only project delivery teams
* Preferred - Systems Integration Consulting / Management
Consulting experience
* Preferred - PMP Certification
* Preferred - Agile / Scrum system development lifecycle
experience
* Preferred - Past IT experience in other, hands-on capacities
(e.g., developer, database administrator, etc.)
Get to know Syneos Health
Over the past 5 years, we have worked with 94% of all Novel FDA
Approved Drugs, 95% of EMA Authorized Products and over 200 Studies
across 73,000 Sites and 675,000+ Trial patients.
No matter what your role is, you'll take the initiative and
challenge the status quo with us in a highly competitive and
ever-changing environment. Learn more about Syneos Health.
Additional Information:
Tasks, duties, and responsibilities as listed in this job
description are not exhaustive. The Company, at its sole discretion
and with no prior notice, may assign other tasks, duties, and job
responsibilities. Equivalent experience, skills, and/or education
will also be considered so qualifications of incumbents may differ
from those listed in the Job Description. The Company, at its sole
discretion, will determine what constitutes as equivalent to the
qualifications described above. Further, nothing contained herein
should be construed to create an employment contract. Occasionally,
required skills/experiences for jobs are expressed in brief terms.
Any language contained herein is intended to fully comply with all
obligations imposed by the legislation of each country in which it
operates, including the implementation of the EU Equality
Directive, in relation to the recruitment and employment of its
employees. The Company is committed to compliance with the
Americans with Disabilities Act, including the provision of
reasonable accommodations, when appropriate, to assist employees or
applicants to perform the essential functions of the job.
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