Business Project Manager - Supply Chain Planning
Business Project Manager - Supply Chain Planning
Experis IT is Europe's leading IT recruitment agency. We are dedicated to connecting talented individuals with Business opportunities across a number of professional sectors, with IT being at the heart of our operations.
For one of our clients, specialized in the pharmaceutical area with HQ in Basel, we are looking for a Business Project Manager - Supply Chain Planning with previous experience in a pharmaceutical company.
This is a challenging one year contracting position starting in July 2020.
Responsibilities:
- Works closely with the PT stream-lead and the IT project lead / manager to organize, plan and structure the SCP project
- Develop a detailed project plan (e.g. in Smartsheet) across the business releases as well as individually within a business release
- Manage the delivery of the project, assign and track tasks and task completion, determine critical path and interdependencies.
- Drives the project according to IT Agile Project Management Methodology used for delivery of IT projects.
- Ensures milestones and related documentation requirements are understood by the team and delivered on time.
- Monitor and report regularly on the progress of the project against milestones, deliverables, timeline and budget and prepare status reports.
- Identify project risks and issues and work with the WS Leader and team members to mitigate risks and resolve issues.
- Closely aligns the plans and methodologies with the PT PMO office
- Maintain relationship with Project Managers of the PMO team to share learning and best practices and remain aware of inter-project connections, issues, and opportunities.
- Help to assess the collective impact of PT projects on the PT organization. Collaborate with the change management lead to drive change management activities across the organization, including preparing and executing change management workshops, etc.
- Engage the stakeholders, users, and other groups as necessary, to facilitate the discussion of the changes. Prepares stakeholder presentations and events in alignment with the change management lead.
- Owns & facilitates regular project meetings (core team, extended team, sounding board) incl. agenda, right audience and notes/minutes including action/decision log.
- Develops and maintains project document repositories, including team charter, contact lists and distribution lists (calendar and e-mail), agendas, minutes, RAID log (Risk, Assumptions, Issues, Dependencies and Change Log), STOP (situation, target, option, proposal) and project activities, milestones and deliverables
Must Haves:
- + 3 years of experience managing IT projects including global major ERP / process transformation programs, ideally in a pharmaceutical environment
- Proven supply Chain experience, ideally in Planning
- Experience with supply chain planning IT-systems (SAP APO, OMP, Kinaxis)
- Strong know-how of Project Management practice & tools, including working in an agile setup
- Very good handling of office tools (MS Office, Google Docs, Smartsheet)
- Demonstrated delivery focus and execution
- Flexibility and adaptability to changing requirements
- Strong organizational skills
- Highly structured and reliable self-starter, able to deal with ambiguity
- Very good communication skills
- Self-driven personality
- Analytical skills
- Fluent in written and spoken English, German is a plus
Location: Kaiseraugst
Start Date: 07.07.2020
End date: 31/03/2022
Extension: possible
Workload: 100%
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