QMS Project Manager

Sikich is a highly regarded provider of professional services across consulting, technology, and compliance. The QMS Project Manager leads client implementation projects in the Life Science, Pharmaceutical, and Medical Device industries, ensuring project delivery aligns with established standards and client expectations.

Responsibilities:

• Lead the day-to-day activities for one or more delivery teams, ensure alignment to software delivery processes/best practices. Work with management to develop, establish and maintain project management standards and procedures
• Prepare for and facilitate project related meetings including project kickoff presentations, discovery session(s), client status meetings, In-Flight Review meetings/PMO meetings, and support transitions
• Develop and manage all project artifacts: kickoff and discovery slides, implementation plans (including risks), project financials, project notebooks, change/enhancement requests, meeting minutes, project health, client -facing project status and financial reports
• Contribute to the development of detailed project plans; identifying resource needs to support delivery efforts and coordinating the daily activities of the development teams in alignment with project plans
• Lead technical delivery teams across multiple projects of various complexities
• Other responsibilities include the refinement of requirements, project coordination, development of plans and schedules, resource planning and estimation, and project maintenance
• Once a project is set in motion, communicate major milestones, identify potential project risks, provide continuing direction to the delivery teams and communicate project status regularly
• Throughout the project lifecycle, obtain feedback to ensure that project efforts meet customer expectations for contracted time, cost and performance
• Provide subject matter expert (SME) consultation on complex projects
• Other duties as assigned

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in related field
• 7+ years of IT work experience (software implementation), including 5+ years of project management experience within the Life Science, Pharmaceutical and Medical Device industries
• Knowledge of project management methodologies (SDLC, Waterfall, Iterative, Agile)
• Implementation and maintenance of large-scale integrated web-based systems (i.e. Web Based, Client/Server, Integration)
• In-depth understanding of software engineering and application development, managing validated systems, and software lifecycle
• Recent client-facing experience
• Ability to quickly learn technologies and product functionality
• Ability to work as a team player
• Comfortable working in a fast-paced team environment with competing demands
• Values driven – You embody and model absolute integrity and servant leadership and you have a bias for action and continuous innovation
• Uncompromising problem solver – You see opportunities in every business challenge and can develop, articulate and implement solutions
• Collaboration – You are a relationship builder across all levels of the organization and across all business units
• Instills trust – You do what you say, without ego, and you follow through on commitments consistently and credibly
• Impact & influence – You are relentlessly focused on making a difference and can gain support for ideas, proposals and solutions. You get others to act, with or without formal authority, to advance initiatives and objectives
• PMP certification
• CSM or ACP certification