IT Project Manager

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Position Overview

The IT Project Manager plans, directs, and coordinates activities of complex corporate IT projects and other initiatives to ensure that the goals or objectives of these projects are accomplished within the prescribed time frame and funding parameters. This position ensures that project goals are accomplished and in line with business objectives.

Essential Duties

Include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Manage the planning and delivery of large-scale projects that involve complex technical solutions and strategic business deliverables.
• Manage project team to accomplish project goals on projects of high complexity.
• Responsible for stakeholder management and influence of managers in the business.
• Manage the resolution of issues and communicate and translate technical concepts.
• Act as a problem solver to drive decisions.
• Consult with management, and review project proposals to determine goals, timelines, funding limitations, and allotment of resources.
• Identify and schedule project deliverables, milestones, and required tasks.
• Prepare status reports and modify schedules and plans, as needed.
• Keep management, team, and business areas informed of project status and related issues.
• Coordinate and respond to requests for changes from original specifications.
• Monitor project results against specifications, including managing the project budget.
• Improve process and project management practices to advance best practices.
• Recommend methods and procedures on new assignments.
• Follow established project management practices, scope management, requirements, issues, and risks.
• Create and manage the project schedule and utilize the same to communicate and manage the work.
• Ensure that all required project management deliverables are created and accurate.
• Prepare project for governance gate approvals.
• Provide leadership and motivation to project team members throughout the project life cycle.
• Collaborate with other system process owners within business functions to ensure corporate alignment with the system and other processes.
• Plan team resource needs, allocate, supervise, and review work.
• Collaborate with peers to manage project interdependencies.
• Direct and coordinate activities of project personnel to ensure that the project progresses on schedule and within budget.
• Engage internal business resources to understand business objectives and translate into delivery plans.
• Understand how leveraged applications provide a competitive advantage.
• Develop and gain agreement with stakeholders on project plans and budgets.
• Uphold company mission and values of accountability, innovation, integrity, quality, and teamwork.
• Support and comply with the company's Quality Management System policies and procedures.
• Maintain regular and reliable attendance.
• Ability to act with an inclusion mindset and model these behaviors for the organization.
• Ability to work on a mobile device, tablet, or in front of a computer screen and/or perform typing for approximately 90% of a typical working day.
• Ability and means to travel between local Exact Sciences locations on request.
• Ability to travel 5% of working time away from work location, may include overnight/weekend travel.

Skills

• Apply excellent organizational, communication, and collaboration skills to accurately track, follow-up, and report on IT projects activities.
• Apply strong facilitation skills to lead IT projects portfolio reviews and elicitation of projects prioritization and trade-offs.
• Ability to conceptualize, document, and present creative solutions to management at various levels.
• Apply advanced knowledge of project management best practices and methodologies.
• Apply advanced understanding of business and technical process.
• Apply advanced verbal and written communication skills.
• Apply strong stakeholder management and relationship building skills, with the ability to influence.
• Apply deep change management skills.

• Ability to meet with colleagues during late afternoon/early evening hours if required.

Minimum Qualifications

• Fluency in the English language (C1 or above per CEFR framework) and ability to communicate in English on technical topics relating to the software development process.
• Bachelor's degree in Information Systems, Computer Science, or other field related to the essential duties of the position; or high school degree/ 4th level vocational qualification in IT and 5 years of relevant experience related to the essential duties of the position in lieu of Bachelor’s degree.
• 5+ years of experience in managing complex IT projects and/or IT portfolio management.
• Demonstrated deep understanding and knowledge of IT Project Management and PMO best practices.
• Demonstrated ability to work across multiple time zones in an independent, yet coordinated, fashion as part of a business or technical group based in a satellite office.
• Demonstrated ability to perform the Essential Duties of the position with or without accommodation.
• Authorization to work in the country of work without visa sponsorship.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience working within regulated industries where data privacy and protection requirements are prioritized with clinical and patient data handling and knowledge of EU data privacy requirements for IT.
• Experience working on Salesforce.com, database design and analytics tools.
• Practical systems solution architecture skills.
• PMP, PRINCE2, CAPM, CSM (Agile), ITIL or any relevant certification.
• Experience in molecular biology, genomics, translational science, and/or personalized medicine. 
• Knowledge of other European languages (French, German, Italian, Polish, Spanish) and/or Japanese.

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