Project Manager

Role Project Manager

Location India, Remote (Work from Anywhere in India)

Minimum Qualification B. Tech. (or equivalent) from an accredited institution

Indicative Experience 10+ Years

Domain Preferably Life-Sciences/Pharma.

Other benefits Health Insurance, Provident Fund, Life Insurance, Reimbursement of Certification

Expenses, Gratuity, 24x7 Health Desk

About Norstella

At Norstella, our mission is simple: to help our clients bring life-saving therapies to market quicker—and help patients in need.

Founded in 2022, but with history going back to 1939, Norstella unites best-in-class brands to help clients navigate the complexities at each step of the drug development life cycle —and get the right treatments to the right patients at the right time.

Each organization (Citeline, Evaluate, MMIT, Panalgo, The Dedham Group) delivers must-have answers for critical strategic and commercial decision-making. Together, via our market-leading brands, we help our clients:

· Citeline – accelerate the drug development cycle

· Evaluate – bring the right drugs to market

· MMIT – identify barrier to patient access

· Panalgo – turn data into insight faster

· The Dedham Group – think strategically for specialty therapeutics

By combining the efforts of each organization under Norstella, we can offer an even wider breadth of expertise, cutting-edge data solutions and expert advisory services alongside advanced technologies such as real-world data, machine learning and predictive analytics.

As one of the largest global pharma intelligence solution providers, Norstella has a footprint across the globe with teams of experts delivering world class solutions in the USA, UK, The Netherlands, Japan, China and India.

The Role

Have you wondered how lifesaving drugs and therapies are created, tested, marketed, and made available to patients in need? Have you wondered how clinical trials are conducted on a global scale? How do governments and health authorities regulate various organizations participating in this marketplace? Have you wondered how those companies and insurance providers price a certain drug, and how a care provider determines the right treatment for a given patient? If yes, Norstella could be the next step in your career.

The Project Manager will manage and successfully deliver Infrastructure and Information Security projects. The Project Manager will report to the Infrastructure Program manager. This person will work closely with Business, Finance, Procurement, Security, Development, and Engineering teams. Success will be measured by meeting timelines and budgets. Performance will be measured by fulfilling the below responsibilities.

Responsibilities:

• Report project status, outcomes and/or risks to the appropriate management channels and escalate issues, as necessary, according to project work plan.
• Establish and maintain processes for managing scope during the project lifecycle, setting quality and performance standards, and assessing risks, reporting deviations & escalations to the appropriate program manager.
• Create and manage a project plan, capturing key milestones, deliverables, dependencies, and scope changes.
• Develop and maintain partnerships with third-party resources, including vendors and researchers.
• Assign and monitor resources to ensure project efficiency and maximize deliverables.
• Motivate and empower the team to meet objectives, task deadlines, ensuring project team members understand their responsibility area.
• Drive cross-functional collaboration across stakeholders within the scope of the project
• Oversee multiple project teams to ensure the outputs are delivered as per the project plan and that the project has a continued business justification throughout its entire life cycle.
• Collaborate with relevant stakeholders to forecast costs and timeframes.
• Work with the technology and delivery teams to organize and compile project estimates as relevant.
• Create corresponding cost models to track and monitor actual project spend to date, monitoring financial risk.
• Follow best-practice guidance from PMO.
• Ensure clear understanding of project requirements through transparent communication and effective change management.
• Facilitate the production of any key project governance documentation e.g., business cases, funding requests, progress reports, end project report, risk register (RAID log), lesson learned log and project team action plans.
• Identify key project phase changes where decision points are required.
• Schedule and facilitate project progress meetings and publish meeting minutes.
• Ensure project team follow ways of working e.g., utilizing project document repository, escalation paths, ways of working

Requirements:

• At least 3 years’ experience of technical project management using both waterfall and Agile methodologies.
• Experience working across multiple IT workstreams such as Business Systems, Infrastructure & Information Security.
• Work effectively in a matrix organization structure with significant emphasis on collaboration, influence, and persuasion.
• Experience in the delivery of end-to-end business transformation.
• Experience in large scale project delivery, that are cross organizational and multiyear in delivery.
• Experience in managing the expectations of executives and senior management.
• Effective at delivering at pace and are proactive in seeking progress updates.
• Ability to show great leadership, and bring people together to make improvements even in areas you don't own.
• Project Management qualifications such as Agile, APM (PMQ), PRINCE2, PMI.
• Structured and thorough approach with good attention to detail
• Ability to effectively communicate technical information and updates to non-technical teams.
• Confident in reporting to senior management level.
• Confident to ask relevant and probing questions of key stakeholders.
• Familiar with Microsoft applications (PowerPoint, Excel, Word, Outlook, and Teams), Atlassian (Jira & Confluence)
• Familiar with Smartsheet.

The guiding principles for success at Norstella:

01: Bold, Passionate, Mission-First

We have a lofty mission to Smooth Access to Life Saving Therapies and we will get there by being bold and passionate about the mission and our clients. Our clients and the mission in what we are trying to accomplish must be in the forefront of our minds in everything we do.

02: Integrity, Truth, Reality

We make promises that we can keep, and goals that push us to new heights. Our integrity offers us the opportunity to learn and improve by being honest about what works and what doesn’t. By being true to the data and producing realistic metrics, we are able to create plans and resources to achieve our goals.

03: Kindness, Empathy, Grace

We will empathize with everyone's situation, provide positive and constructive feedback with kindness, and accept opportunities for improvement with grace and gratitude. We use this principle across the organization to collaborate and build lines of open communication.

04: Resilience, Mettle, Perserverance

We will persevere – even in difficult and challenging situations. Our ability to recover from mis-steps and failures in a positive way will help us to be successful in our mission.

05: Humility, Gratitude, Learning

We will be true learners by showing humility and gratitude in our work. We recognize that the smartest person in the room is the one who is always listening, learning, and willing to shift their thinking.