Responsibilities will include, but are not limited to, the following:
• Consult with management and review approved projects to determine goals, time frame, funding limitations, procedures for accomplishing project, staffing requirements and allotment of resources
• Review and approve project plans, specifying goals, strategy, staffing, scheduling, risks, contingency plans, and allocation of available resources
• Ensure adherence to technical scope and objectives of projects
• Ensure adherence to scheduled project deliverables, milestones, and required tasks
• Resolve conflicts in assigned duties, responsibilities, and scope of authority to project personnel
• Direct and coordinate activities of project management personnel to ensure project progresses on schedule and within budget
• Review status reports prepared by project personnel, and oversees the modification of schedules and plans as required
• Prepare program status reports, and keep management, clients and others informed of program status and related issues
• Confer with project personnel to provide technical advice and resolve problems
• Coordinate and respond to requests for changes from original specifications
• Monitor project results against plan
• Review and approve technical and project documentation
• Assume key overall responsibility for ensuring that project participants have easy access to information that is useful to them

Skills/Knowledge Required:
• Ability to create and maintain project schedules, budgets and forecasts, manage issues and risks, and execute against plans
• Capability to manage internal and external projects from inception to successful implementation
• Firm understanding of the software development/configuration process, including requirement gathering, analysis/design, development tools/technologies, release/version control, contemporary testing methodologies and deployment management
• Solid understanding of Infrastructure technologies including Windows, Linux, networking, SAN and security
• Expertise in setting and managing customer expectations
• Skill in conceptualizing creative solutions, as well as documenting them and presenting/selling them to senior management
• Strong customer focus and ability to manage client expectations
• Ability to communicate needs and schedules to IT and clients, as well as ensure that plans are in place and standards are adhered to
• Solid project management skills with ability to multitask and manage multiple small to large projects in a cross-functional environment
• Demonstrated ability to lead and motivate staff to apply skills and techniques to solve dynamic problems
• Excellent oral and written communication skills, as well as ability to present and explain technical information in a way that establishes rapport, persuades others and gains understanding
• Agile Methodology experience preferred

Qualifications
Ø Bachelor's degree in computer science, business administration, engineering or a related discipline with an information technology focus; highly desirable to have M.B.A. degree or equivalent, PMP or PgM certified, extensive related project management experience
Ø Fifteen or more years of progressive broad-based project or program management experience
Ø Ten or more years of demonstrated management/supervisory experience in systems development or IT
Ø Strong or recent experience in pharmaceutical commercial technology space is a must.