Senior Project Manager

Job Title: Senior Project Manager

Career Level - E
 

Introduction to Role:

Are you ready to leverage technology to impact patients and ultimately save lives? We are seeking a SAP Senior Project Manager for our world leading pharmaceutical company, operating in over 100 countries and headquartered in the United Kingdom. As part of our SAP team, you will be delivering projects across several SAP landscapes globally. You will work closely with various IT and business teams, owning and delivering Project Management activities, ensuring they conform to agreed time, cost, and quality specifications.

Accountabilities:

As a Senior Project Manager, you will develop project approaches, detailed project plans, cost budgets and timelines that support the Delivery teams. You will ensure that an assigned project is appropriately constructed with well-defined deliverables and work streams. You will identify, assess, and escalate risks to the success of the project, ensuring cost-effective and prompt resolution of issues. You will also monitor costs, timescales, resources used and the performance of team members, acting where these deviate from agreed levels and tolerances.

Essential Skills/Experience:

• Recent and relevant experience of at-least 2-5 years of project management in SAP projects with a track record of delivering to required standards

• Strong knowledge on working with SAP Solution Manager

• Strong SAP experience in any functional or technical modules, preferably Functional

• Good working understanding on Microsoft Project Plan

• Strong communication and interpersonal skills

• Proactive approach to problem solving

• Experience working in globally distributed team

• Strong Collaborator Leadership skills

• Excellent Teammate, with experience in working with cross cultural teams

• Hands on experience in preparing Planning artefacts (Project Management Document, Configuration Management plan, Quality Management Plan, Project Schedule, Resource Plan, Training Plan, Communication Plan, Risk & issue Management Plan)

• Exposure to Failure Modes and Effects Analysis (FMEA) / Root Cause Analysis / Ishikawa Diagrams / Pareto Analysis

Desirable Skills/Experience:

• Experience working in a shared service environment

• PMP certification preferred

• Certified Scrum Master / Familiar with Agile Methodology

• Basic Understanding on SIX SIGMA CONCEPTS

When we put unexpected teams in the same room, we unleash bold thinking with the power to inspire life-changing medicines. In-person working gives us the platform we need to connect, work at pace and challenge perceptions. That’s why we work, on average, a minimum of three days per week from the office. But that doesn't mean we’re not flexible. We balance the expectation of being in the office while respecting individual flexibility. Join us in our unique and ambitious world.

Why AstraZeneca?

Join us at a crucial stage of our journey in becoming a digital and data-led enterprise. Make the impossible possible by building partnerships and ecosystems, creating new ways of working and driving scale and speed to deliver exponential growth. Focused and committed, and backed with the investment to succeed, we're driving cross-company change to disrupt the entire industry. Our work unlocks the potential of science. We optimise and revolutionise AstraZeneca by maximising efficiencies and finding new ways to drive productivity. From automation to data simplification.

Ready to make a difference? Apply now and join us in our mission to save lives!

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AstraZeneca embraces diversity and equality of opportunity.  We are committed to building an inclusive and diverse team representing all backgrounds, with as wide a range of perspectives as possible, and harnessing industry-leading skills.  We believe that the more inclusive we are, the better our work will be.  We welcome and consider applications to join our team from all qualified candidates, regardless of their characteristics.  We comply with all applicable laws and regulations on non-discrimination in employment (and recruitment), as well as work authorization and employment eligibility verification requirements.