Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Albano Systems, Inc. is seeking a Senior SAP Project Manager to lead strategic information and technology initiatives. The role manages end-to-end project delivery, including scope, schedules, budgets, governance, risks, financials, stakeholder alignment, and project closeout across cross-functional and geographically distributed teams.
Responsibilities
- Lead end-to-end delivery of assigned projects within approved scope, schedule, budget, quality and business outcome expectations, coordinating cross-functional and geographically distributed teams. Typically manages 2-3 concurrent projects with individual budgets up to $10M
- Develop, maintain and execute the Project Management Plan, covering objectives, scope, delivery approach, governance, team structure, roles and resource requirements. Manage the schedule, milestones, deliverables, dependencies and critical path
- Partner with business and technology stakeholders to establish and sustain alignment on project objectives, priorities, requirements and expected outcomes
- Run project governance, including status reporting on standard CSL templates, steering committee engagement, decision management and escalation. Give stakeholders a transparent view of project health, progress, risks, decisions and required actions
- Lead risk, issue and dependency management, including mitigation planning, escalation and resolution. Track performance against measurable KPIs and act on variances before they affect delivery
- Manage project financials, including forecasting, accruals, budget tracking, variance analysis and reporting. Review the budget and plan with required stakeholders on a regular cadence and route any projected overrun through the exception process before it occurs
- Manage change requests and baseline adjustments through the required approvals, and keep project data, schedules, resource allocations, risks, issues and financials accurate and current in Clarity
- Meet I&T project management standards, governance frameworks, methodologies and data quality requirements, and maintain project documentation in the approved collaboration platforms
- Lead project closeout, including post-implementation review, lessons learned, benefits tracking and transition to operational support
- Other duties as assigned by supervisor
Skills
- Bachelor's degree required, in a technical or business discipline
- 7+ years IT experience, including 5+ years managing IT projects end to end
- Experience delivering IT projects in a global, matrixed environment using formal project management methodology, techniques and tools (Jira, Clarity and CoPilot)
- Experience working in a GxP-regulated environment
- Demonstrated ability to influence senior management and other critical stakeholders
- Deep project and program management expertise, with a track record of leading complex initiatives to completion using Agile, Waterfall and hybrid approaches in a global, matrixed organization
- Builds trusted relationships across business and technology, manages expectations, resolves conflict and influences without direct authority
- Communicates complex information clearly and tailors it for audiences from delivery teams to executive leadership
- Understands business strategy, operating models, processes, technology capabilities and value drivers well enough to align project outcomes with enterprise priorities
- Navigates ambiguity, evaluates trade-offs, assesses risk and makes sound decisions on incomplete information
- Sets a tone of transparency and shared ownership across teams, and adapts delivery approaches, processes and ways of working as business needs change
- PMP, PMI-ACP or Six Sigma preferred
- Pharma, biotech or comparably regulated industry experience desirable
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