Project Manager

We're on a mission to change the future of
clinical research. At Perceptive, we help the
biopharmaceutical industry bring medical
treatments to the market, faster.
Our mission is to change the world
but to do this, we need people like you.

Apart from job satisfaction, we can offer you:

HEALTH:

- Medical plan for you and your dependents.

- Personal Accident Insurance

- Life Insurance

- Critical illness cover

WEALTH:

- Salary structure and Flexi basket

- Provident fund of 12%

- Gratuity scheme

YOURSELF: Internal growth and development programs & trainings

Project Manager is responsible for the oversight of timelines, milestone, and financials throughout the project. The Project Manager will manage expectations and may work directly with clients and other stakeholders. The Project Manager will have defined leadership skills having the ability to work across a matrix business. The project manager will ensure quality and excellence are part of their role and this is reflected in their work and the project outcomes.

Key Accountabilities:

Project management

• Takes full responsibility for the definition, approach, facilitation and satisfactory completion of medium-scale projects (typically with direct business impact and firm deadlines). 

• Identifies, assesses and manages risks to the success of the project. 

• Ensures that realistic project plans are maintained and ensures regular and accurate communication to stakeholders. 

• Adopts appropriate project management methods and tools whether predictive (plan-driven) approaches or adaptive (iterative/agile) approaches.

• Ensures Quality reviews occur on schedule and according to procedure.

• Manages the change control procedure and ensures that project deliverables are completed within agreed cost, timescale and resource budgets, and are signed off. 

• Provides effective leadership to the project team and takes appropriate action where team performance deviates from agreed tolerances.

Release & deployment

• Uses the tools and techniques for specific areas of release and deployment activities. Administers the recording of activities, logging of results and documents technical activity undertaken.

• May carry out early life support activities such as providing support advice to initial users.

Change management

• Assesses, analyses, develops, documents and implements changes based on requests for change.

Business risk

• Investigates and reports on hazards and potential risk events within a specific function or business area.

Financial management

• Monitors and maintains all required financial records for compliance and audit to all agreed requirements. 

• Assists all other areas of IT with their financial tasks, especially in the areas of identification of process, service, project and component costs and the calculation and subsequent reduction of all IT service, project, component and process failures. 

• Contributes to financial planning and budgeting.

• Collates required financial data and reports for analysis and to facilitate decision making.

• Works to ensure that all project related financial requirements are understood and achieved.

Relationship management 

• Implements stakeholder engagement/communications plan. 

• Deals with problems and issues, managing resolutions, corrective actions, lessons learned and the collection and dissemination of relevant information.

• Collects and uses feedback from customers and stakeholders to help measure effectiveness stakeholder management. 

• Helps develop and enhance customer and stakeholder relationships.

Other

Carryout any other reasonable duties as requested.

Skills:

• Excellent interpersonal, verbal and written communication skills

• A flexible attitude with respect to work assignments and new learning

• Ability to manage multiple and varied tasks with enthusiasm and prioritize workload with attention to detail

• Must have the ability to work methodically in a fast-paced, time-sensitive environment

• Demonstrable ability to apply critical thinking to problems and tasks

• Builds and maintains an in-depth knowledge of Project Management practices within the life sciences industry and how they affect customers adopting our products

• Ability to define and implement appropriate strategies

• Ability to identify and implement process improvements

• Proactively participates in skills improvement training and encourages their teams to participate

• Maintains an up-to-date awareness of trends, tools, technology, techniques and processes that affect technology within the Life sciences domain

• A self-starter and able to work under own initiative

Knowledge and Experience: 

• Experience using tools to communicate progress to Stakeholders

• Experience of working with cloud deployment of enterprise solutions to the life sciences

• Experience of working with cloud deployment of Regulatory enterprise solutions

• Understanding of Agile methodologies (preferably Scrum), UML, Object Orientated, Data Modelling, Process Modelling and/or other development methodologies

• Experience of working in and knowledge of the life sciences and regulatory sectors, 

• Solid Professional experience in the same or very similar role

• Proven working experience of project management methodologies (such as Prince2, Agile, Lean Six Sigma)

Education:

• Bachelor's Degree in a technical discipline (Maths, Science, Engineering, Computing, etc.) or a related study, or equivalent project-related experience

• English: Fluent

Come as you are.

We're proud to be a Equal Employment Opportunity employer. We do not discriminate based upon race, religion, color, national origin, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, or other applicable legally protected characteristics.