04/09/2025 Senior Project Manager

Job Description

The Project Manager is responsible for overseeing the end-to-end delivery of multiple projects of varying complexities. This role requires involvement from the sales stage through to successful project execution. Key responsibilities include planning, organizing, executing, managing stakeholders, optimizing resource utilization, and ensuring high-quality delivery within strict deadlines and budget constraints. The work will be on projects related to Mareana's products and services in the Life Science industry, particularly in supply chain, manufacturing, sustainability, and unstructured data.

What You'll Do

- Participate and contribute to Sales and Marketing calls during the sales phase.
- Initiate internal and external project kick-offs with stakeholders through formal presentations, including delivery methodology, project scope, team structure, high-level plan, and governance structures.
- Define, publish, and actively follow high-level and detailed project plans throughout execution. Revise and formalize plans as needed to address deviations and changes.
- Lead and manage project teams to deliver solutions, resolving unique project challenges daily.
- Ensure team motivation, accountability, and access to necessary resources.
- Send formal reports to stakeholders at defined frequencies.
- Identify and mitigate risks and issues proactively.
- Develop deep functional and technical understanding of Mareana's products and services.
- Manage customer expectations and implement effective project governance.
- Promote team engagement, sustainable work pace, and high-quality outputs.
- Ensure adherence to internal processes like time booking, training, and leave applications.
- Maintain JIRA projects and champion process improvement initiatives.
- Implement Agile best practices and optimize project processes.
- Facilitate communication and resolve conflicts to enable high-velocity delivery.
- Attend client meetings to provide status updates, discuss challenges, and manage expectations.
- Build strong client relationships and identify new business opportunities.
- Work effectively across distributed teams in multiple time zones.

Requirements

- Bachelor's degree in a relevant field.
- 12+ years of experience in managing projects of varying complexities.
- Proven experience with both Agile and traditional project methodologies.
- Strong ownership, problem-solving mindset, and proactive approach.
- Ability to handle technical and functional challenges effectively.
- Experience managing multiple concurrent projects.
- Self-driven with excellent communication, analytical, and organizational skills.
- Flexible, creative, and resourceful.
- Life Sciences industry experience is a plus.
- High proficiency in MS Excel, Word, and PowerPoint.

Benefits

- Medical Insurance
- Paid Time Off
- Employee Referral Bonus Program
- Opportunity to work with highly skilled coworkers and niche products

About Mareana

Founded in 2015, Mareana is an AI-powered software company with the mission of accelerating digital transformation in manufacturing, supply chain, and sustainability via our connected intelligence platform.

Mareana's platform uses AI/ML to rapidly connect disparate, siloed data across the entire business process, allowing customers to shift their time and effort from data preparation to intuitive real-time decision-making.

Our customers are market leaders in life sciences, chemicals, and general manufacturing who have realized over a billion dollars in business value by leveraging our platform. Recognized by Gartner as a "Cool Vendor in AI", we've also been featured in Silicon Review and Manufacturing Insights magazine.

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