IT Principal Project Manager, Global

Olympus is a global medical technology company focused on improving patient outcomes through healthcare solutions and services. The Principal Project Manager will lead tech-enabled change projects through the full lifecycle, delivering agreed scope on time and within budget while managing governance, risks, resources, stakeholders, and project teams.

Responsibilities:

• Deliver an agreed technology scope on time and within budget
• Drive value-based outcomes through the full project lifecycle from initial analysis to post-deployment
• Own (create and maintain) the project plan of key activities, outputs, and dependencies
• Own the project financials (forecasting, budgeting) and resource model
• Identify and onboard resources required to deliver the project scope, oversee and coordinate day to day team activities aligned to the project plan
• Track and mitigate risks and issues, document and manage assumptions and dependencies, escalating where required
• Effectively manage relationships with delivery teams, including 3rd parties where required
• Manage expectations of sponsors and other stakeholders through timely, well-structured communications on progress and project health
• Drive robust project governance, taking into consideration delivery, architecture, and change management requirements
• Establish the regular meeting cadence required to effectively manage and govern project delivery
• Actively participate in a program/project management community to share good practice and lessons learnt from a global and regional perspective as well as to hone skills and master core capabilities
• Provide input and support to establish good practice project guidelines and a clear project framework to be adhered to by all programs and projects; continuously update with good practices
• Lead, motivate, develop, and appraise team members so that their individual and collective performance is of the required standard and meets the current and future needs of the business
• Other responsibilities / duties as assigned

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree or higher in IT, Computer Science or Business Management (or equivalent and related experience preferred)
• Minimum of 3-5 years of working experience as a Project Manager in the IT sector
• Proven track record of successfully driving and delivering end-to-end large complex scaled IT solutions/ projects or system implementations projects
• Solid technical background, with understanding or hands-on experience in software and system development
• Experience of negotiation and working with project and process management
• Experience in stakeholder management
• Experience working with Microsoft Office suite (Project, Word, Excel)
• Good planning and organization skills with key attention to budget and resource management
• Demonstrable problem-solving skills
• Demonstrable organizational skills
• Project Management qualifications desirable e.g., PMP/ Prince II certifications or equivalent