Sr Project Manager

Advarra is a leader in clinical research, passionate about advancing human health through innovative technology solutions. The Senior Project Manager will lead customer-facing product implementations and support internal initiatives, ensuring projects are completed on time and aligned with company goals.

Responsibilities:

• Orchestrate and drive the successful and timely completion of tasks to achieve customer organizational goals, including the identification and mitigation of risks and issues which may impact the project
• Work with customers and internal team members to recommend necessary project resources and responsibilities, define project scope, and develop a project schedule
• Communicate effectively and build strong relationships with all project stakeholders, including project sponsors, subject matter experts, and project team members in a timely and consistent manner
• Review and monitor project work to ensure forward progress is made and work is completed on time and within budget
• Identify, monitor, and communicate project-related issues including scope changes that may arise during the implementation
• Facilitate, coordinate, and arbitrate cross-functional discussions and decisions with subject matter experts within key functional areas
• Understand the organization’s strategic priorities and adapt project timelines and tasks accordingly
• Lead onsite and offsite meetings and training events
• Work with customers to review and validate application configuration options
• Drive data migration activities, including data mapping, validation, and issue resolution
• Orchestrate and drive the successful and timely completion of tasks to achieve customer organizational
• Drive internal projects to completion, ensuring team members stay on track, risks are identified, and issues resolved in a timely manner
• Share and encourage others to share and use the lessons learned from project work in order to identify and implement process improvements
• Contribute to our implementation and software documentation
• Act as expert resource for Product Support Specialists, Business Analysts, and other departments in all functional and content areas associated with a project
• Contribute project experience to the knowledge library
• Effectively serve as an informal manager to the project team, despite lack of direct reporting relationships
• Provide input to project teammates on a regular basis for ongoing performance reviews
• Coach to develop team and individual team members’ skills
• Partner with Director, Project Management on any people related matters
• Perform other job-related duties as assigned

Requirements:

• Bachelor's Degree or relevant experience
• 8-12 years of experience managing medium-to-scale implementation projects using a standard project management methodology
• Experience identifying and implementing process improvements
• Experience presenting and leading customer-facing group discussions with confidence and conciseness
• Experience effectively negotiating and building consensus with various audiences and managing project activities
• Project Management Certification (PMP)
• 2+ years of experience in the clinical research industry
• Prior managerial experience
• Demonstrated organizational skills including attention to detail and multi-tasking skills
• Ability to travel up to 25%
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Strong working knowledge of Microsoft Excel, Word, PowerPoint, and Visio
• Experience using MS Project and MS Access
• Business analysis experience in process definition, gap analysis, and workflow design
• Data migration experience including data mapping and validation