Project Manager- NPI Lead

fitspr; Juncos (PR); On-site; USD 80,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

FITS is seeking a Project Manager with 4+ years of experience in the pharmaceutical or regulated industries to lead New Product Introduction initiatives in a lab-focused environment.

You will manage cross-functional teams, coordinate schedules, mitigate risks, and ensure quality, cost, and timeline objectives while engaging stakeholders and navigating SAP and Ariba platforms. Fluency in English and Spanish is required.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree with four+ years of project management experience in pharma or regulated industry.
• Bilingual in English and Spanish.
• Experience leading cross-functional teams for New Product Introduction.
• Strong schedule management, risk mitigation, and stakeholder engagement.

Responsibilities

• Plan, implement, monitor, complete, and follow up on projects.
• Manage competing timelines and prioritize critical tasks.
• Set and achieve project quality, scope, cost, and timeline standards.
• Assess issues and develop solutions for scientific, productivity, and client goals.
• Support technical, financial, and organizational issues with research and documentation.
• Manage and track project budgets and resources.
• Negotiate and allocate resources for projects.
• Identify schedule slips and analyze cost/resource impacts.
• Develop tools and processes to enable informed team decisions.
• Contribute to evolving project role and ensure cross-functional understanding of goals.

Skills

Project management

Bilingual English/Spanish

Cross-functional leadership

Schedule management

Risk mitigation

Stakeholder engagement

Quality focus

Budget management

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

SAP

Ariba Sourcing

Ariba Contracting

Job description

WHAT MAKES YOU A FIT:

The Technical Part:

• Bachelor'sDegree with four(4)years or more of experience asa Project Managerwithin the pharmaceutical or regulated industry.
• Bilingual (English & Spanish).
• Project Management skills.
• Shift: Administrative and according to business needs.
• Experience in:
  • Leadingcross-functional teams responsible for the planning, execution, and delivery of New Product Introduction.
  • Schedule management, risk mitigation, stakeholder engagement, and ensuring project objectives.
  • Scope, quality, cost, and timeline requirements.
  • SAP, Ariba Sourcing and Contracting.
  • Change Control Management.

The Personality Part:

• Picture yourself in a lab... with all the equipment you need to put your multitasking, scientific, creative (to come up with all those experiments!) skills to work. Picture as well an environment of healthy competition, teamwork, being ethical and of using the scientific method in all ways possible. If you like how this sounds, then this might be the job for you. Bring it on!

AS A PIECE OF FITS, YOU WILL: (The day-to-day on the job)

• Manage all aspects of project(s): planning, implementation, monitoring, completion, and follow-up.
• Manage competing timelines and prioritize critical tasks.
• Establish and achieves project standards for work quality and quantity.
• Assess project issues and develop solutions to meet scientific, productivity, quality and client satisfaction goals and objectives.
• Assist in technical, financial, and organizational issues by researching issues, providing recommendations and maintaining document archives.
• Manage and track project budget(s).
• Negotiate and reconcile the use of resources for the projects.
• Identify and anticipate schedule slips or changes and analyzes the costs and resource impact.
• Develop and implement tools, techniques and processes to provide or create information to enable informed decision making within the teams.
• Actively participate in directing the evolution and defining the role of the project.
• Ensure the project goals and objects are well understood by the various functional areas.
• Liaison with Management, Department Heads, Leaders, sub or satellite team leaders and members to obtain their continued input and feedback on the benefits, needs, and issues associated with the project.

WHO WE ARE:

We are a Service Provider companydifferent from the rest. We pride ourselves in how we treat the most important piece of our company's puzzle: you! We integrate Engineering, Construction, Maintenance, Utilities and Specialized Technical services across the Island (and in the US as well!). Our company is flexible, family-oriented and focused on our resources' well-being, while providing our Pharmaceutical, Medical Device and Manufacturing industryclients with top-notch quality talent.We're FITS!

Are you the next piece?