IT PMO

• Cross-functional planning, coordination, and monitoring of multiple complex projects ensuring strategic alignment, prioritization and resource allocation across initiatives 

• Build, maintain, and manage high performing project teams 

• Drive multiple interdisciplinary teams to achieve strategic objectives 

• Establish and ensure efficient communication structures among internal and external project stakeholders and ensure information and content flow between interdisciplinary teams 

• Contribution to content work and hands-on support of Subject Matter Experts in individual work packages and specific areas 

• Proactively identify, assess, and manage risks, issues, dependencies, and escalations, ensuring timely resolution, driving mitigation strategies, and escalating critical topics to senior leadership where necessary Reporting project status to boards / steering committee/ global stakeholders  

• Update and report on the global portfolio management and act as interface to global stakeholders, ensuring transparency on overall status and progress across global organization 

• Take ownership of budget planning and requests for project execution, including tracking and managing financials, forecasting throughout execution 

• Drive and enforce the adoption of global project management standards and governance frameworks, ensuring consistency, compliance, and high-quality delivery across all initiatives 

• Other duties as assigned  

Minimum Qualifications  

• Bachelor's degree in a related field or equivalent experience  

• Minimum of eight years of related work experience  

• Experience implementing an ERP system, SAP preferred 

• Highly experienced project management professional with rich experience leading large scale IT projects in a matrixed organization and strong global best practices such as Prince2 or PMP standards,  

• Very fluent English speaker 

Preferred Qualifications  

• Proven ability to apply project and portfolio management methodologies, tools, and processes  

• Pharmaceutical Industry working experience with deep understanding of CSV and GxP regulations 

• Ability to establish and promote an effective project governance structure, incl. efficient stakeholder management and good facilitation skills 

• Excellent communication skills, 1:1, and in larger groups. Should be able to distinguish relevant from non-relevant information and communicate in a concise manner that is both informative and thorough, incl. to senior management 

• Strong sense of accountability both for project deliverables as well as for all project team members 

• Excellent communication skills, 1:1, and in larger groups. Should be able to distinguish relevant from non-relevant information and communicate in a concise manner that is both informative and thorough, incl. to senior management 

• Detail-oriented, closely involved in project work and willing to understand all project activities at all times 

• Strong ability to prioritize project tasks and resources 

• Strong analytical problem-solving skills and quick comprehension 

• Experience in applying both waterfall methodology and Agile Frameworks in projects 

• Demonstrated ability to lead change management efforts  

• Able to deliver results in ambiguous situations with quality and value  

• Vendor relationship, procurement and contract management experience  

• Experience leading the implementation of a LARGE SAP ERP system  

• Experience managing a budget of $5 M +  

Personal skills (soft-skills) 

• Communication:  

Formal, informal, facilitation, presentation, meeting management & moderation 

• Leadership:  

Guides, motivates, solves, critical thinking, resilience, manages expectations, accepts feedback, team building, conflict management 

• Negotiation:  

Priorities, scope, schedule, cost, changes, vendors terms & conditions 

• Problem Solving:  

Problem definition, root case analysis (technical, organizational etc.)