Project Coordinator

AstraZeneca; Warszawa; Hybrid; EUR 40,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a Project Coordinator to support project teams and manage resources effectively. This role involves organizing meetings, monitoring project timelines and budgets, and ensuring adherence to project goals. The ideal candidate will possess excellent organizational and communication skills, thrive in a team environment, and demonstrate a proactive approach to managing changing priorities. Join a dynamic team where your contributions will drive project success and organizational excellence.

Qualifications

• Goal-oriented with excellent time management and organizational skills.
• Demonstrated ability to work successfully in a team environment.
• Prior administrative experience and management.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate project schedules, budgets, and reporting to ensure timely delivery.
• Prepare and edit meeting agendas, minutes, and presentations.
• Track project changes and produce updated schedules as agreed.

Skills

Time Management

Organizational Skills

Interpersonal Skills

Communication Skills

Project Coordination

Problem Solving

Teamwork

Adaptability

Education

Relevant Vocational Qualifications

Bachelor's Degree (or equivalent experience)

Job description

Location: Warsaw, hybrid work (at least 3 days from the office per week)

Project Coordinator supports the project teams, project manager and the leads to manage resources and information and assist with organizing, scheduling and planning meetings and project activities. This includes maintaining projects for efficiency for both self and others. May control small sub-projects under general guidance.

This role involves monitoring project plan, timelines, budgets, and expenditures, organizing and participating in stakeholder meetings, and ensuring that project deadlines are met in a timely manner. In some projects it may include additional responsibilities and require expertise in a specific area. Project Coordinator coordinates projects with the goal of getting them well-organizes on time and within budget, maintains the schedule and risks of the project. Ensures reporting documentation is updated and escalates deadlines and outstanding actions. S/he will be expected to prepare and present regular progress updates to appropriate management channels, ensuring the organizational goals are achieved while upholding standards and best practices.

Typical Accountabilities:

• Coordination including creation, planning, leading and maintaining projects for efficiency for both self and others
• Coordination of small sub-projects under general guidance ensuring delivery of project outputs according to plan, reviewing and changing plans as necessary
• Coordination the schedule, issues and budget of the project, and reporting on the current status and progress of the project to the team and other stakeholders
• Coordinate preparation of internal and external documentation including plans and reports, through gathering, analysing and summarizing data and information from the project team, and follow-up on discrepancies
• Ensures that all parts of an assigned project are processed, organized, and progressing according to predetermined timelines and assesses the risks to mitigate them
• Develops and maintains a detailed project schedule which includes administrative tasks assigning tasks and controlling schedules and all sites involved in the project
• Co-ordinates, collates and communicates information at the detailed level, possibly of a technical or statistical nature
• Ensures coordination of the different business areas involved on a project and ensures that deadlines are met and the risks are mitigated
• Reconciles figures or information from various sources, ensuring completeness and accuracy
• Responsible for gathering input from the business analysts and project mangers to develop and maintain the detailed project schedules
• Coordinating meetings and overseeing other members of the project team
• Prepares and/or edits meeting agendas, minutes, presentations and tables
• Prioritises workload, and that of others as appropriate, to achieve personal and work unit targets
• Tracks project changes and produces updated project based schedules as agreed with the project lead
• Supports the preparation of a budget and forecast reports to ensure projects align with initial cost specifications
• Compiles summary documents and distributes to the project team as required
• Ensuring projects adhere to frameworks and all documentation is maintained appropriately for each project
  
  
  

Education, Qualifications, Skills and Experience:

Essential:

• Goal oriented with excellent time management and organizational skills
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills as demonstrated by the ability to work effectively with the team, with others at all levels of the organization and externally
• Excellent in planning certain parts of the project, monitoring its progress and keeping the timelines,
• Demonstrated ability to work successfully in a team environment
• Prior Administrative experience and management
• Ability to follow processes and take ownership
• Specialist knowledge in relation to business support activities in the relevant area
• Can create and maintain projects for efficiency for both self and others
• Demonstrated abilities to take the initiative to respond to rapidly changing priorities
• Demonstrates a can-do approach and willingness to learn new skills
• Ability to work on tight deadlines
  
  
  

Desirable:

• Relevant vocational qualifications or equivalent experience
• Hands-on experience with managing clients and teams
• Team management skills
• Professional qualification
• Proven success in a corporate setting, working with all levels of management