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Job Summary:
As a Senior Project Manager, you will be part of the Hillsboro Innovative Therapies (HIT) Project Management team in the newly formed Roche/Genentech Pharma Technical Cell and Gene Therapy organization (PTC). This growing organization is working with groups across Roche/Genentech, partners and contract manufacturing organizations to establish capabilities for new cell and gene therapy products
Day Shift-8:00am to 4:30 PM, Onsite position
Pay Rate, $60-$70/hour (depends on experience)
Contract duration: 12/31/2027
This Senior Project Manager role will provide organizational support, leadership, project management and business operations expertise to HIT. Additionally, this position must effectively manage the projects across global locations and time zones and be able to travel internationally as needed.
Areas of focus include:
- Project management of application or infrastructure projects that are of high complexity and risk,
- Accountability for the successful implementation of technical solutions through effective project controls, planning and execution throughout all phases of our project management methodology
- Responsibility for managing assigned resources, effectively tracking and reporting budgets and financial forecasts, creating and tracking detailed project plans,
- Facilitating project meetings as well as proactively controlling project scope, risks and issues.
The successful candidate will ensure project execution and alignment with the overall business model and is accountable for the successful implementation of technical solutions through effective project controls, planning and execution throughout all phases of our project management methodology. The HIT and PTC (Pharma Technical Cell & Gene Therapy) organization is highly matrixed and cross functional, requiring an individual with outstanding leadership, collaboration, communication, negotiation, facilitation and influencing skills.
Job Responsibilities
- Effectively manage projects: define project objectives, requirements, and assumptions necessary to develop project charter and project plans.
- Identify, acquire, and lead multifunctional, global project teams (project team sizes 15-60)
- Manage relationships with various technology and business communities to achieve project objectives
- Plan and manage the project scope, schedule, and budget to fulfill objectives and satisfy project requirements and strategy.
- Develop, drive and maintain integrated project plans, and timelines aligning project tactics with project strategy.
- Lead, coordinate, facilitate, and motivate all associated project resources to gain alignment on project goals and deliverables.
- Facilitate and lead effective project meetings and workshops, manage change and conflict, and develop resource planning estimates to manage project workload and productivity. Create agenda topics and facilitate project/team meetings; writes/reviews meeting minutes.
- Implement lean project and portfolio management practices.
- Apply strong project management and business operations skills and experience in the creation, maintenance and improvement of business processes and tools to support the PTC organization.
- Support creation and maintenance of portfolio reports to facilitate communication and alignment across workstreams. Support team business processes and tools, ensuring timely updates and driving continuous improvement.
- Identify and apply systematic quality activities to ensure that projects employ all processes needed to meet Computer System Validation directives
- Design and implement improvements where necessary / appropriate to improve operational efficiencies
- Lead and conduct risk management planning, identification, analysis and monitoring on projects within project teams, ensuring risks have appropriate mitigation and contingency plans.
- Formulate risk mitigation strategies and recommend solutions
- Manage the processes required to ensure timely and appropriate generation, collection, distribution, storage, retrieval, and ultimate disposition of project information and documentation necessary for successful communications across all stakeholders and any required updates to living system documents for validated systems
Qualifications:
- BA/BS with a minimum of 5-8 years of project management experience in the Pharmaceutical/Biotech or Informatics / IT industry. Prefer 10-12 years project management experience
- PMP certification or certification in-progress preferred
- Experience supporting technical development and transfer activities with a focus on cell and gene therapy preferred.
- Ideal candidate has previous experience working with external collaborators.
- Excellent PowerPoint, collaboration systems and g-suite skills (or similar).
- Experience with MS Project or Smartsheet and data visualization tools (e.g. Tableau or Spotfire) is required.
- Excellent written and verbal skills.
- Demonstrates effective communication skills and integrates team members, internal and external partners to achieve team goals.
- Must be proactive, with excellent interpersonal skills and ability to work collaboratively and flexibly in multiple teams.
- Ability to work in a dynamic, matrixed team environment and effectively manage change.
- Willing to travel up to 10% of time (future)
- 7+ years of experience as a successful Information Technology Project Manager using structured project management processes
- Deep understanding of various SDLCs (Waterfall, Agile, iterative, etc.)
- Deep understanding of technology infrastructures
- Demonstrated competency planning and tracking project schedules with clearly-defined critical paths
- Ability to manage mid-level, multifunctional projects across multiple global locations
- Proven ability to obtain results in a global, matrix environment
- Track record of delivering projects on time and on budget
- Ability to see the interrelationship of a project across "the big picture" and understand its dependency on other projects in the program as required
- Excellent oral and written communication skills, as well as presentation abilities
- Demonstrated success communicating across a variety of audiences, including business people and technologists (both up and down the organization)
- Exceptional listening, problem solving, negotiation, and facilitation skills
- Proven leadership abilities and emotional intelligence
- Demonstrated success handling initiatives of significant complexity and risk
- Plus: Experience within the Pharmaceutical and BioTech industry
- Plus: Experience managing IT projects in GxP validated environments
- Plus: Experience managing offshore contract resources
- Plus: Experience with ERP, LIMS and PKM systems
Genentech is an equal opportunity employer, and we embrace the increasingly diverse world around us. Genentech prohibits unlawful discrimination based on race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin or ancestry, age, disability, marital status and veteran status.
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