Project Manager

We’re on a mission to change the future of clinical research. At Perceptive, we help the biopharmaceutical industry bring medical treatments to the market, faster. Our mission is to change the world but to do this, we need people like you.

What can we offer you?

Apart from job satisfaction, we can offer you:

YOURSELF

• 25 days’ holiday (with the option to buy more)

HEALTH

• Health Cash Plan
• Optional private health, dental insurance, and health screens
• Cycle to work scheme

WEALTH

• Generous pension scheme with up to 10% employer contribution
• Life assurance
• Season ticket loan

About the role

Job Purpose

As Project Manager, you'll be responsible for the oversight of timelines, milestone, and financials throughout your assigned projects.

Working directly with both external and internal stakeholders, you'll be relied upon to manage expectations, displaying the leadership skills and other qualities necessary to function effectively through the organisation matrix.

Quality and excellence of execution will form a primary focus and you'll be called upon to ensure this is reflected in your work and in the project outcomes delivered.

Key Accountabilities

Project management

• Takes full responsibility for the definition, approach, facilitation and satisfactory completion of medium-scale projects (typically with direct business impact and firm deadlines). 

• Identifies, assesses and manages risks to the success of the project. 

• Ensures that realistic project plans are maintained and ensures regular and accurate communication to stakeholders. 

• Adopts appropriate project management methods and tools whether predictive (plan-driven) approaches or adaptive (iterative/agile) approaches.

• Ensures Quality reviews occur on schedule and according to procedure.

• Manages the change control procedure and ensures that project deliverables are completed within agreed cost, timescale and resource budgets, and are signed off. 

• Provides effective leadership to the project team and takes appropriate action where team performance deviates from agreed tolerances.

Release & deployment

• Uses the tools and techniques for specific areas of release and deployment activities. Administers the recording of activities, logging of results and documents technical activity undertaken.

• May carry out early life support activities such as providing support advice to initial users.

Change management

• Assesses, analyses, develops, documents and implements changes based on requests for change.

Business risk

• Investigates and reports on hazards and potential risk events within a specific function or business area.

Financial management

• Monitors and maintains all required financial records for compliance and audit to all agreed requirements. 

• Assists all other areas of IT with their financial tasks, especially in the areas of identification of process, service, project and component costs and the calculation and subsequent reduction of all IT service, project, component and process failures. 

• Contributes to financial planning and budgeting.

• Collates required financial data and reports for analysis and to facilitate decision making.

• Works to ensure that all project related financial requirements are understood and achieved.

Relationship management

• Implements stakeholder engagement/communications plan. 

• Deals with problems and issues, managing resolutions, corrective actions, lessons learned and the collection and dissemination of relevant information.

• Collects and uses feedback from customers and stakeholders to help measure effectiveness of stakeholder management. 

• Helps develop and enhance customer and stakeholder relationships.

Skills

• Excellent interpersonal, verbal and written communication skills

• A flexible attitude with respect to work assignments and new learning

• Ability to manage multiple and varied tasks with enthusiasm and prioritize workload with attention to detail

• Must have the ability to work methodically in a fast-paced, time-sensitive environment

• Demonstrable ability to apply critical thinking to problems and tasks

• Builds and maintains an in-depth knowledge of Project Management practices within the life sciences industry and how they affect customers adopting our products

• Ability to define and implement appropriate strategies

• Ability to identify and implement process improvements

• Proactively participates in skills improvement training and encourages their teams to participate

• Maintains an up-to-date awareness of trends, tools, technology, techniques and processes that affect technology within the Life sciences domain

• A self-starter and able to work under own initiative

 

Knowledge and Experience

• Experience using tools to communicate progress to Stakeholders

• Experience of working with cloud deployment of enterprise solutions to the life sciences

• Experience of working with cloud deployment of Regulatory enterprise solutions

• Understanding of Agile methodologies (preferably Scrum), UML, Object Orientated, Data Modelling, Process Modelling and/or other development methodologies

• Experience of working in and knowledge of the life sciences and regulatory sectors, 

• Solid Professional experience in the same or very similar role

• Proven working experience of project management methodologies (such as Prince2, Agile, Lean Six Sigma)

Education

• Bachelor's Degree in a technical discipline (Maths, Science, Engineering, Computing, etc.) or a related study, or equivalent project-related experience

• English: Fluent

Come as you are. We're proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. We do not discriminate based upon race, religion, colour, national origin, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, or other applicable legally protected characteristics.