Program Manager - Commercial Pharma

Company: Atlas
Location: Princeton
Posted on: January 25, 2023

Job Description:

Work you will do : We are seeking a Program Manager to contribute to a $9M commercial pharmaceutical program. The Program Manager (PgM) will be responsible for guiding client and team working in hybrid ways, drive efforts to improve overall delivery, efforts, add structure around things where needed, touch on the program plan, and guiding teams to success.

What you will do : The Program Manager will become an extension of the client team working on Commercial AI/Client program and work closely with Business Stakeholders and Technical Teams to bring AI/Client capabilities upgrades and enhancements.

Job Responsibilities:

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• Strong background in Program and Project Management Principles (Project Planning, Project Requirements, Project Estimating, Resource Management, Scheduling and Controlling, Facilitation, Risk Management, Procurement, Reporting Status, and Change Management)
  
• Outstanding soft skills, including mentoring skills
  
• Tracks progress and adherence to plan for scope, budget, and schedule
  
• Develop effective communication plans and ensure execution
  
• Identify and facilitate resolutions for team issues
  
• Facilitate change requests to ensure all team members and stakeholders are informed of the impacts on schedule and budget
  
• Ensure deliverables adhere to quality standards
  
• Prepares project status reports for Sr. Management and/or PMO, and Stakeholders
  
• Conduct project Lessons Learned
  
  Must Haves
  
  
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  • 5+ years of experience in IT project management
    
  • Agile
    
  • Waterfall
    
  • Commercial Pharmaceutical Highly Valued
    
  • Pharma Experience required
    
  • Soft skills: Patient; understanding of the gaps in the current state. Influential; able to effect change toward future state.
    
  • Understanding of project management methodology including project planning, requirements, estimating, resource management, scheduling, and risk/issue management
    
  • Excellent interpersonal, communication, and leadership skills to establish and maintain positive and productive working relationships with all team members and stakeholders
    
  • Experience facilitating status meetings and holding team members accountable for status, deliverables, and timely escalation of any barriers to success
    
  • Prior management consulting highly valuable.
    
    Nice to Haves
    
    
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    • Commercial Pharma
      
    • Prior management consulting
      
    • Agile Certification(s)
      
    • PMP
      
      Who you will be working for:
      Atlas is a global strategic consulting firm, focused on the life sciences industry. Our services include Management Consulting, Managed Services and Agile Services. Global pharmaceutical companies and emerging players in the Life Sciences depend on over four hundred Atlas consultants to ensure they have the capabilities that will give them the ability to succeed.
      Why join the Atlas A-team of Consultants:
      
      
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      • Opportunity - Atlas has deep life sciences industry roots and a reputation with our clients for having superior quality consultants
        
      • Meaningful Work - You will be part of the solution to help clients accomplish their patient first missions
        
      • Culture - We are proactive, highly accountable, and high touch
        
      • Solid - We have been delivering exceptional consulting talent for over 23 years
        
      • Depth & Breadth of Collaborative Client Relationships They depend on us to design strategic teams, which can produce and drive outcomes
        
      • We are experts at Project Management, Portfolio Operations, Agile Services, Change Management and Talent/Organizational Design
        
      • Benefits: Opportunity for a consulting career average tenure of our consultants is over 2.5 years, with many here for over 7
        
      • A-team of support behind you We are all about making you successful
        
      • Mutual trust We build mutual trust and encourage respect and cooperation among team members
        

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