Senior Project Manager
- Recruiter
- Confidential
- Location
-
London
South East EnglandUnited Kingdom
- Salary
- Competitive
- Posted
- 01 Apr 2021
- Closes
- 29 Apr 2021
- Job Title
- Project Manager
- Category
- Logistics and Transport
- Contract Type
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full Time
Company Description
Informa is a leading international events, intelligence and scholarly research group.
We're the specialist's specialist. Through hundreds of powerful brands, we work with businesses and professionals in specialist markets, providing the connections, intelligence and opportunities that help customers grow, do business, make breakthroughs and take better informed decisions.
Informa is listed on London Stock Exchange and a member of FTSE 100, with over 11,000 colleagues working in more than 30 countries.
Pharma Intelligence is the world's leading provider of drug, device, company, clinical trial and market intelligence in pharma and medtech markets. Our premium data quality is drawn from 42,000 companies, 248,000 clinical trials in 175 countries and 65,000 drugs for 1,400 diseases. We're the trusted partner of more than 3,000 companies including the top 50 pharma firms and top 10 CROs globally.
Pharma Intelligence is part of Informa Intelligence, a division of Informa PLC, which provides specialist data, intelligence and insight to businesses and professionals around the world, helping them make better decisions, gain competitive advantage, understand disease market dynamics and enhance clinical trials to drive better patient outcomes. Informa Intelligence has 2500 team members in 60 locations across the globe with significant visibility in the USA and London.
Job Description
Need a Senior Project manager with Agile experience to manage a number of critical projects in the Pharma portfolio. You will be part of a PMO delivery function overlooking a big portfolio of intelligence and analytical products in the Pharmaceuticals space.
Role requirements
* Manage end to end delivery of a range of technical and product driven projects and programs, applying a structured, repeatable process.
* Actively manage the backlog, budget, estimation and assignment of work to the development team
* Experience in Agile techniques, and use of JIRA, Confluence, MS–Teams and other key solutions to ensure strong technical capability
* Experience managing complex technical projects that could be in artificial intelligence, infrastructure or software development
* Coach new team members and be able to provide enough knowledge–sharing within the team including line management,
* Lead the scoping and planning of high value projects, partnering with key stakeholders as appropriate
* Plan and allocate resources in partnership with key stakeholders
* Engage regularly with workstream leads to ensure each element of the programme/project is on track, providing support to manage risks, unblock issues and concerns as they arise– as well as strong documentation skills.
* Track project performance and report regularly to senior management, highlighting areas for intervention.
* Partner with internal stakeholders, Internal Communications, Finance, HR, business stakeholders, Technology as and when required during the planning and implementation.
* Identify opportunities for delivery and process improvement, and to design and deploy appropriate solutions.
* Work with the Delivery team to understand portfolio status, issues, risks and dependencies on products or platforms
* Responsible for generating Scrum / Kanban metrics and KPIs for the teams
* Production of status reports for weekly management meetings and executive management meetings to facilitate fact–based decision making
* Understand the availabilities & challenges of the delivery team and set expectations around milestones accordingly
Experience
* Demonstrable experience around project delivery
* Understanding of capacity planning and resource management
* Background of leading teams of at least 5 individuals and delivering successful results
* Demonstrated verbal and written skills with Product, Marketing & Leadership teams
* Examples of ability to make things happen in an environment of ambiguity, complexity and multiple partners, being able to influence others without direct authority
* Ability to demonstrate a proactive/ can do style of work
Qualifications
Experience
* Demonstrable experience around project and program delivery
* Understanding of capacity planning and resource management
* Background of leading teams of at least 3 individuals and delivering successful results
* Demonstrated verbal and written skills with Product, Marketing & Leadership teams
* Examples of ability to make things happen in an environment of ambiguity, complexity and multiple partners, being able to influence others without direct authority
* Ability to demonstrate a proactive/ can do style of work
Knowledge and Qualifications / Certifications (good to have):
* SCRUM Master – CSPO, PSPO, or equivalent others
* PMP or PRINCE2
Informa is a leading international events, intelligence and scholarly research group.
We're the specialist's specialist. Through hundreds of powerful brands, we work with businesses and professionals in specialist markets, providing the connections, intelligence and opportunities that help customers grow, do business, make breakthroughs and take better informed decisions.
Informa is listed on London Stock Exchange and a member of FTSE 100, with over 11,000 colleagues working in more than 30 countries.
Pharma Intelligence is the world's leading provider of drug, device, company, clinical trial and market intelligence in pharma and medtech markets. Our premium data quality is drawn from 42,000 companies, 248,000 clinical trials in 175 countries and 65,000 drugs for 1,400 diseases. We're the trusted partner of more than 3,000 companies including the top 50 pharma firms and top 10 CROs globally.
Pharma Intelligence is part of Informa Intelligence, a division of Informa PLC, which provides specialist data, intelligence and insight to businesses and professionals around the world, helping them make better decisions, gain competitive advantage, understand disease market dynamics and enhance clinical trials to drive better patient outcomes. Informa Intelligence has 2500 team members in 60 locations across the globe with significant visibility in the USA and London.
Job Description
Need a Senior Project manager with Agile experience to manage a number of critical projects in the Pharma portfolio. You will be part of a PMO delivery function overlooking a big portfolio of intelligence and analytical products in the Pharmaceuticals space.
Role requirements
* Manage end to end delivery of a range of technical and product driven projects and programs, applying a structured, repeatable process.
* Actively manage the backlog, budget, estimation and assignment of work to the development team
* Experience in Agile techniques, and use of JIRA, Confluence, MS–Teams and other key solutions to ensure strong technical capability
* Experience managing complex technical projects that could be in artificial intelligence, infrastructure or software development
* Coach new team members and be able to provide enough knowledge–sharing within the team including line management,
* Lead the scoping and planning of high value projects, partnering with key stakeholders as appropriate
* Plan and allocate resources in partnership with key stakeholders
* Engage regularly with workstream leads to ensure each element of the programme/project is on track, providing support to manage risks, unblock issues and concerns as they arise– as well as strong documentation skills.
* Track project performance and report regularly to senior management, highlighting areas for intervention.
* Partner with internal stakeholders, Internal Communications, Finance, HR, business stakeholders, Technology as and when required during the planning and implementation.
* Identify opportunities for delivery and process improvement, and to design and deploy appropriate solutions.
* Work with the Delivery team to understand portfolio status, issues, risks and dependencies on products or platforms
* Responsible for generating Scrum / Kanban metrics and KPIs for the teams
* Production of status reports for weekly management meetings and executive management meetings to facilitate fact–based decision making
* Understand the availabilities & challenges of the delivery team and set expectations around milestones accordingly
Experience
* Demonstrable experience around project delivery
* Understanding of capacity planning and resource management
* Background of leading teams of at least 5 individuals and delivering successful results
* Demonstrated verbal and written skills with Product, Marketing & Leadership teams
* Examples of ability to make things happen in an environment of ambiguity, complexity and multiple partners, being able to influence others without direct authority
* Ability to demonstrate a proactive/ can do style of work
Qualifications
Experience
* Demonstrable experience around project and program delivery
* Understanding of capacity planning and resource management
* Background of leading teams of at least 3 individuals and delivering successful results
* Demonstrated verbal and written skills with Product, Marketing & Leadership teams
* Examples of ability to make things happen in an environment of ambiguity, complexity and multiple partners, being able to influence others without direct authority
* Ability to demonstrate a proactive/ can do style of work
Knowledge and Qualifications / Certifications (good to have):
* SCRUM Master – CSPO, PSPO, or equivalent others
* PMP or PRINCE2