IT Project Manager (Mid)

St. Louis, MO - USA

Monthly Salary: Not Disclosed

Posted on: 25 days ago

Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

Overview:

TekWissen is a global workforce management provider headquartered in Ann Arbor; Michigan that offers strategic talent solutions to our clients worldwide. This client is a German multinational Pharmaceutical and biotechnology company and one of the largest pharmaceutical companies in the world headquartered in Leverkusen and areas of business include pharmaceuticals; consumer healthcare products agricultural chemicals seeds and biotechnology products.

Job Title: IT Project Manager (Mid)

Location: St Louis MO 63146

Duration: 6 Months

Job Type: Temporary Assignment

Work Type: Onsite

Job Description:

The Crop Science Information and Data Assets team is looking for a data project manager to be part of our Market360 organization.
The candidate will manage and provide oversight of dependencies across a number of very complex efforts that span multiple functions across client.
The ideal candidate should have experience working in customer-facing roles and understand the commercial and supply chain operations of a large corporation.
The project manager will need to coordinate with other project and program managers to understand dependencies and ensure they are tightly managed.

Major Responsibilities:

Provide project management for assigned projects
Will oversee cross-dependencies of very complex projects that may span multiple functions.
Facilitate initiation scoping planning and execution
Build and/or maintain project execution plan/charter including approach scope tasks duration work effort dependencies budget planning assumptions risk profile team structuring staffing resource allocation and deliverable definitions
Maintain and abide by project governance
Facilitate meetings capture key action items and context of meetings. Maintain paper trail of decision that impact projects.
Anticipate and resolve issues and risks
Escalate unresolved issues to the appropriate program and steering committee leadership
Adhere to the projects communication plan and ensure compliance with all reporting requirements including communication of project status to all project stakeholders including steering committees and executives
Measure project progress against agreed upon objectives and success criteria
Perform financial oversight and analysis
Ensure adherence to established project management standards and tools
Coach mentor and manage project team members as needed

Required Experience and Skills:

Bachelors degree
3 or more years of IT or business experience
Experience in Agile development
2 or more years of experience managing a variety of full lifecycle application development/integration projects including ERP Software as a Service Web and Information Security projects
Proven leadership and influence skills including the ability to influence when there is no direct reporting relationship
Experience leading large applications development/integration projects or programs across multiple countries/functions
Experience in managing medium to large sized projects across multiple disciplines and/or teams
Knowledge or understanding of software development lifecycle principles and methodologies
Ability to build networks and relationships at all levels of the organization
Strong written and verbal communication skills and presentation skills
Superior negotiation skills
Strong team orientation collaboration skills and interpersonal skills
Strong results orientation
Expertise in defining and improving processes
Ability to make difficult decisions and to involve others sufficiently in the decision-making process

TekWisen Group is an equal opportunity employer supporting workforce diversity.

Overview: TekWissen is a global workforce management provider headquartered in Ann Arbor; Michigan that offers strategic talent solutions to our clients worldwide. This client is a German multinational Pharmaceutical and biotechnology company and one of the largest pharmaceutical companies i...