IT Project Manager

Job Number: 5436

External Description:

Project Manager (Contract Role)

Company Description

Our client is a US healthcare and a leading global biopharmaceutical company. They have a revenue of US $40.1 billion, with more than 69,000 employees across 140 countries with a heritage of more than 125 years.

 

Job Responsibilities:

Project Manager with essential experience in software development and project management. The person should demonstrate a basic understanding of software development principles and user centric design-based software development in addition to the classic IT project management.

Reporting to the Manager, you will be handling the following –

• Be responsible for project management of IT Divisional initiatives (Research, Commercial, Manufacturing, and Corporate Support functions) to support business strategies.
• Collaborate closely with other IT groups to partner with the relevant business areas to effectively coordinate execution of strategic projects.
• Coordinate planning and reporting activities for these strategic activities and become a trusted advisor of the business account manager and client service leads.
• Ensure technology standards compliance and pursue integration and leveraging of platform opportunities.
• Responsible to coordinate and provide support in Programs/Projects setup and maintenance throughout its lifecycle in our project management tool
• Support projects planning and approval process
• Process vendors related documentation (TOs / POs)
• Manage resource allocation and resource plans
• Support and coach project coordinators within the project
• Produce project reports, metrics and financial reports
• Support monthly reporting cadence
• Support Program and Senior Project managers in day-to-day PM operations and logistics
• Document meeting minutes and meeting outcomes
• Maintain documentation according to SDLC standards
• Provide SDLC support
• Coordinate change control / governance requirements
• Communication with colleagues in the Asia Pacific region

 Daily responsibilities of project administration:

• Close cooperation and daily communication with Project and Program managers

• Provide adhoc operational support
• Invoices – process tracking, payment validation, unpaid invoices settle
• Task Order process ownership - creation, signatures, upload to TO tracker
• Program Supplier Registration
• External resources onboarding process and management
• Support project set up & financial approval
• Review of monthly project’s actual & status updates in online project management tool
• Process monthly project financial forecast
• Facilitate explanation of actuals vs. variances
• Manage project setup, accruals, asset creation, project closure etc.

 

Qualifications, Experience and Competencies:

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, finance, operations, engineering, physical science, or related study with 2-4 years of experience in Project Management from inception to close-out.

• Formal Project Management certification, waterfall or agile is a plus
• Competent in the use of project management and analytical software tools.
• Ability to make a positive contribution as demonstrated by learning new skills and makings suggestions for process/procedure improvement.
• Demonstrated ability to analyse and define business problems.

On top of a competitive base salary, the company offers excellent career and training opportunities, attractive benefits and bonus schemes. If you are keen to take your career on to the next level, click apply.

 

EA License: 94C3609

Reg No: R1655737

Job Number: 5436

Community / Marketing Title: IT Project Manager

Location_formattedLocationLong: Tuas, South West SG