Senior Project Manager

Evidencia Scientific Search and Selection Limited; England; On-site; GBP 65,000 - 85,000; Full time

Job summary

A life sciences consultancy in the United Kingdom is seeking a Senior Project Manager to drive commercial strategy and digital transformation. In this role, you will support biotech and pharmaceutical leaders by delivering market analysis and actionable business strategies. The ideal candidate will have 4-8 years of project management experience in professional services, a strong background in STEM, and be proficient in methodologies like Agile, SAFe, or Prince2. This position offers career growth in an ethical and ambitious scale-up environment.

Qualifications

• 4-8 years project management experience, preferably in professional services.
• Experience with Waterfall, Agile, Prince2, SAFe, and/or SDL expertise.
• Ideally, familiarity with Lean Six Sigma methodologies.

Responsibilities

• Orchestrate the project lifecycle for key business activities.
• Support client portfolio governance including executive communications.
• Manage quality assurance to meet compliance and approval standards.

Skills

Project management experience

Problem-solving

Leadership qualities

Emotional intelligence

Data-driven mindset

Education

BSc or MA in STEM field

Tools

MS Project

Trello

Jira

Job description

Senior Project Manager, Commercial Strategy & Digital Transformation, Life Sciences

The Company

After continued success, my client, a dedicated life sciences consultancy of

The Role

My client are seeking a commercially minded and ambitious individual to join their life sciences delivery operations practice. As a senior project manager, you will be instrumental in shaping the international business for clients. Your role is to support commercial biotech and pharmaceutical executives through the delivery of market analysis, commercial strategies, business design and new technology implementation to deliver rapid commercial outcomes for their international teams.

This role offers accelerated career growth for ambitious individuals and presents a unique opportunity to join an ethical and profitable scale-up with ambitious plans for growth.

Responsibilities

• Orchestrate the project lifecycle for key business activities that includes market research, marketing and sales operations, client service delivery plus various corporate activities.
• Support client portfolio governance that includes executive communications, account strategies and pipelines, operational standards and financial analysis
• Manage client service delivery in partnership with business consultancy teams to ensure projects advance on time, budget and to the contractual specification
• Actively forecast and monitor project dependencies and risks, authoring recommendations to reduce uncertainty, risk, delay, error and cost
• Author and maintain the accuracy of project management documentation to include project charter, plans, register, standards, risk, status and meeting minutes documents
• Manage quality assurance to ensure quality standards, compliance and approval governance is met for the entire project workflow

Candidate Profile

• BSc or MA in Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics (STEM) field
• 4-8 years project management experience, with an interest in professional services
• An entrepreneurial and data-driven mindset, able to critically examine business challenges
• A problem-solver, with high emotional intelligence and leadership qualities
• Someone seeking the freedoms and opportunities to lead in a scale-up environment
• Ideally, candidates will have project management competencies and experience in Waterfall, Agile, Prince2, SAFe, and / or SDL expertise.
• Experience of MS Project, Trello or Jira technologies is preferred
• Experience of SAFe, Prince2, Agile or Lean Six Sigma methodologies would also be helpful

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