2015-12-11

Overview

With over 14,000 employees in 70 Countries, inVentiv Health offers best-in-class clinical development and commercialization services to global healthcare companies seeking to accelerate performance. Our people provide the brilliant ideas, valuable insight and relentless energy that drive biopharma products from lab to life.

Here at inVentiv Health Selling Solutions, a critical segment of our Commercial Division, we offer innovative promotional and educational resources that deliver customized commercial solutions to the world's leading healthcare companies so they can focus on what they do best - prevent and treat disease.

Our high-performance team of sales, market access, clinical educators and medical affairs employees work together with our corporate support professionals and executive leadership in a fast-paced, challenging environment with one single common aspiration: to deliver exceptional service.

Make your work matter everywhere.

Responsibilities
The primary role of a Project Management Office (PMO) Director is to not only manage approved projects but strategically work with the Project Manager (PM) team to implement best practices and PM standards across the organization. The PMO Director will also act as a coach and mentor to the PM team. The PMO Director is responsible for creation, administration, and continuous improvement of the inVentiv Health Selling Solutions PM methodology. The PMO Director utilizes all available techniques in conjunction with exceptional communication skills to keep projects in scope, in budget and delivered on time. The PMO Director manages directly and provides oversight to the PM team on all aspects of new implementations, continuous-improvement initiatives and internal projects that are formally initiated and serves as the VP of Sales Operation's main point of contact across all client and internal projects.

Key Job Responsibilities:
(Duties may include, but not limited to all or some of the following)

Innovate, construct and enforce project management standards across all operational functions.

Create and implement project-management best practices for PMs.

Present PM services to prospective and existing clients

Mentor and coach the PMs to ensure project success

Collect, prioritize and assign approved projects

Manage high visibility projects directly as needed

Track project time and measure effectiveness of each project

Track resource utilization to properly align stakeholders to projects

Engage with clients to facilitate productive project-management activities.

Manage system migrations, new client implementations, client expansion projects, and new process implementations.

For new client implementations, follow documented processes to lead project transitions from the sales cycle to implementation to ensure services are delivered per contract.

Follow the documented PM methodology with defined phases.

Depending on scope and complexity of each project, may need to generate and support the following deliverables:communication plan, resource plan, risk management plan, scope baseline, work breakdown structure, project schedule, cost management plan, quality management plan for each project assigned.

Record and monitor an issues log for initiated projects to document requested changes.

Manage/compile insightful data if data collection is part of an initiated project.

Monitor timelines and budgetary issues for each client project as they are initiated.

Create relevant project documentation such as project charters, project plans, schedules, business rules, business requirements, and work instructions.

Oversee the execution of the project plan including but not limited to Project schedule & task management; risk management.

Hold periodic project status meetings with internal team and client.

Manage project closeout and oversee all activities e.g. Lessons Learned and tasks that need to be performed to close out a project.

Maintain project documentation repository

Manage sign-off of key deliverables associated with initiated projects

Work closely with Domain leads and functional managers to drive project success

Requirements

Education and Experience:
Required

BA/BS or equivalent experience.

10+ years experience in a client services/project manager role

5+ years leading project management teams and developing PM templates, processes, and methodologies

5+ years with leading team of Project Managers as direct reports

5+ years with sales operations applications (sales rep launches etc)

Formal Project Management Training

Preferred

Pharmaceutical industry experience

Field Automation Software Development and Deployment experience

Project Management/Team leadership experience in a client delivery software/services company

PMP Certification

Skills:

Ability to create Project Management Framework and lead department in the implementation and adoption of framework

Ability to hire and manage team for high performance

Resource Management including scheduling, tracking, and estimating work effort

Strong analytical approach with metrics creation for tracking of project and business results

Knowledge of the project-management discipline and related tools/techniques

Good communication skills both verbal and written

Conflict resolution

Good group facilitation skills

Leadership and training skills

Detail oriented / analytical skills

Excellent interpersonal skills

Strong initiative and a self-starter

Planning and organizational skills

Knowledge of information systems & logistics as it relates to client needs.

Specific knowledge of client business and operations.

Pharmaceutical industry knowledge.

Customer Service skills.

Skill in Microsoft Office programs and Microsoft Project.

Excellent Presentation skills.

Skill in troubleshooting and problem solving.

Ability to translate customer needs into technical requirements.

inVentiv Health, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer, M/F/Disabled/Vets that values the strength that diversity brings to the workplace

Years Exp
11-15

Date Added
12/11/2015

Position Type/Category
Information Technology

Minimum Education Level
Bachelor's Degree

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