Project Manager - Data, Technology & Engineering - Commercial (Contract)

Project Manager – Commercial

The Project Manager for DTE (Data, Technology & Engineering) Commercial is a role within the Project Management and Strategic Operations team reporting directly to the Director, Commercial and CPEAO Portfolio Manager. The PM will have execution delivery responsibilities for the Commercial portfolio covering various projects related to Field Enablement, Master Data Management, Customer Engagement (Martech) and Analytics initiatives supporting key launches for new disease areas an enhancements for newly launched programs.

The PM will be charged with hands-on management of all project activities from initiation to launch, ensuring to drive project outcomes and accurate status reporting (from day to day to leadership levels) across all workstreams.  They will work closely with the implementation delivery partners, software vendors and Vertex DTE and Business colleagues to ensure successful project delivery.

The Project Manager will ensure that the project is in alignment with other inter-dependent projects, programs and stakeholders.

Primary responsibilities are to:

• Create and track all project deliverables (including project charters, schedule, status and stage gates) and drive the project to completion and launch
• Manage, monitor, and report on the project execution including:
• Project schedule (tasks, owners, start/end dates, and dependencies) including all cross-functional activities.
• Pro-actively identify any resource issues within the project and mitigate risks and escalations
• Manage the RAID (Risk, Action, Issue, Decision) log; ensuring all decisions are accurately captured, actions are completed by their due date, and risks/issues are assessment, managed, and communicated appropriately. All cross-functional items are to be managed in the RAID log
• Facilitate the management of JIRA in partnership with the implementation team using agile and/or waterfall task management
• Deliver a weekly project status report to project stakeholders in the agreed Vertex format and status the project across varying levels from day to day teams, business partners and leadership with appropriate levels of messaging and content

The Project Manager is required to have relevant PMO-related experience specifically in the Life Science domain as well as technical experience to ensure they adequately drive various cross functional teams forward, challenge thinking and construct proper plans for project delivery. This experience will be critical in understanding both the process challenges and the technology being implemented, which will help the project manager facilitate successful delivery outcomes.

In addition, it is expected that the Project Manager has experience managing and deploying projects related to Commercial Technology systems or programs such as Veeva CRM, Martech systems (web, CDP, email), Master Data Management and AI experience or similar. The project manager will be expected to apply relevant life sciences technology expertise to this role including input into project scope, business process analysis, best practices, and system adoption.

Additional responsibilities beyond those listed above will be agreed upon between the project manager and DTE portfolio manager for Commercial.

$73-$82/HR

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