Syneos Health Clinical Looking for Senior IT Project Manager at Remote

Syneos Health Clinical; United States; Remote; USD 80,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a forward-thinking organization dedicated to accelerating biopharmaceutical solutions. As a Senior IT Project Manager, you will play a pivotal role in coordinating complex projects that bridge the gap between lab innovations and real-world applications. Collaborating with diverse teams, you will ensure that every project not only meets its objectives but also adheres to the highest standards of quality and efficiency. This role offers an exciting opportunity to work in a dynamic environment where your contributions will have a meaningful impact on patient outcomes. If you are passionate about project management and thrive in a collaborative setting, this position is perfect for you.

Benefits

Career development opportunities

Supportive management

Technical training

Peer recognition programs

Total rewards program

Qualifications

• Professional experience managing IT projects in a pharmaceutical setting.
• Ability to manage multiple projects and communicate effectively with stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate project meetings and manage project scope, schedule, and financials.
• Prepare project status reports and manage risks and issues.

Skills

Project Management

Information Technology

Risk Management

Stakeholder Communication

Microsoft Project

Agile/Scrum

Healthcare Analytics

Jira/Confluence/AZURE Databricks

COTS/SaaS Project Management

Education

Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Microsoft Office Suite

SharePoint

Job description

Senior IT Project Manager

Syneos Health is the only fully integrated biopharmaceutical solutions organization purpose-built to accelerate customer success. We lead with a product development mindset, seamlessly connecting our capabilities to add high-value insights to speed therapies to patients and provide practical value to help our customers achieve their objectives.

Every day we perform better because of how we work together, as one team, each the best at what we do. We bring a wide range of talented experts together across a wide range of business-critical services that support our business. Every role within Corporate is vital to furthering our vision of Shortening the Distance from Lab to Life.

Discover what our 29,000 employees, across 110 countries already know:
WORK HERE MATTERS EVERYWHERE.

Why Syneos Health

We are passionate about developing our people, through career development and progression; supportive and engaged line management; technical and therapeutic area training; peer recognition and total rewards program. We are committed to our Total Self culture – where you can authentically be yourself. Our Total Self culture is what unites us globally, and we are dedicated to taking care of our people. We are continuously building the company we all want to work for and our customers want to work with. Why? Because when we bring together diversity of thoughts, backgrounds, cultures, and perspectives – we’re able to create a place where everyone feels like they belong.

Job Responsibilities

• Coordinates all key project meetings, phone calls, meeting rooms, etc.
• Works with business stakeholders to finalize and get signoff on detailed scope of the project in line with the high-level scope set forth in any Statements of Work (SoW) & project charters.
• Following applicable IT SOPs and policies, works with the appropriate IT and business teams to develop the project timeline/schedule to deliver the project.
• Ensures all required deliverables are included in the overall project schedule and are completed by the project.
• As necessary for applicable projects, collaborates with the Validation Manager to ensure the system’s validation needs are assessed and defined.
• Prepares for and conducts the project kickoff meeting.
• Begins preparations for Service Readiness Planning (handoffs to Production Support) at the onset of the project.
• Manages overall scope of the project as defined in the project charter, including the scope, schedule, financials, etc.
• Manages overall project communications, including communications to executive stakeholders, IT colleagues, business stakeholders.
• Manages overall financials of the project, ensuring key financial information is always up to date in the IT project portfolio.
• Maintains issues & risks logs, ensuring issues & risks are categorized and prioritized appropriately, working with project stakeholders on risk mitigation strategies and action plans for issues, and escalating/raising at appropriate times.
• Manages the project schedule, baselining it and getting sign-off on it when scope is finalized, and always managing actuals vs. forecast vs. baseline.
• Conducts regular (e.g. weekly), action-oriented, project status meetings with all key project stakeholders.
• Ensures all key deliverables are being produced, stored in the appropriate repository, and when applicable, signed-off on.
• Prepares weekly status reports (SharePoint) and monthly/bi-monthly steering committee presentations (as required).
• Manages all activities required for production cutover including a smooth handoff to Production Support and the associated decommissioning of any legacy systems/contracts.
• Obtains business acceptance of newly released production systems.
• Manages overall project finances as defined in the approved Investment Request Form (IRF).
• In coordination with Finance, setup purchase orders, track invoices, track actual/committed spend/accruals, etc.
• Ensures resources assigned to tasks for a given project are executing those tasks.
• Identifies out of line situations and takes appropriate actions to remedy them.
• Works with the project team and stakeholders to ensure a smooth transition of the project’s solution into productive use.

Qualifications

What we’re looking for:

• Professional system implementation/project management experience & professional experience managing information technology projects.
• Bachelor’s Degree, preferably with a technical concentration (e.g., Computer Science, etc.).
• Relevant Pharmaceutical/CRO (clinical) industry experience.
• Exposure to a broad range of technologies (infrastructure, application) desired – healthcare analytics dashboards, Jira/Confluence/AZURE Databricks.
• Ability to convey technical matters to non-technical stakeholders in an understandable way.
• Ability to operate with limited oversight and needs to command the respect of a broad range of business and technology stakeholders.
• Ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously if necessary.
• Proficient at recognizing and defining risks and developing response and mitigation plans for them.
• Effective English written and verbal communication skills.
• Proficient with Microsoft Project and common Microsoft Office applications (e.g., Excel, Power Point, Word, One Note).
• Experience working with SharePoint (or similar) project workspaces/document repositories.
• Experience managing Commercial Off the Shelf (COTS) and/or Software as a Service (SaaS) projects, including integrations into and out of these systems, data migrations, etc.
• Technically skilled Project Management professional comfortable defining and managing the tasks of architects, business analysts, developers, database administrators, infrastructure, security, and other technical functions.
• Proficient at forecasting and managing project spend.
• Must have experience working with local and virtual teams.
• Must have experience managing mixed internal/vendor and vendor-only project delivery teams.
• Preferred – Systems Integration Consulting/Management Consulting experience.
• Preferred – PMP Certification.
• Preferred – Agile/Scrum system development lifecycle experience.
• Preferred – Past IT experience in other, hands-on capacities (e.g., developer, database administrator, etc.).

Get to know Syneos Health:
Over the past 5 years, we have worked with 94% of all Novel FDA Approved Drugs, 95% of EMA Authorized Products and over 200 Studies across 73,000 Sites and 675,000+ Trial patients.

No matter what your role is, you’ll take the initiative and challenge the status quo with us in a highly competitive and ever-changing environment. Learn more about Syneos Health.

Additional Information:
Tasks, duties, and responsibilities as listed in this job description are not exhaustive. The Company, at its sole discretion and with no prior notice, may assign other tasks, duties, and job responsibilities. Equivalent experience, skills, and/or education will also be considered so qualifications of incumbents may differ from those listed in the Job Description. The Company, at its sole discretion, will determine what constitutes as equivalent to the qualifications described above. Further, nothing contained herein should be construed to create an employment contract. Occasionally, required skills/experiences for jobs are expressed in brief terms. Any language contained herein is intended to fully comply with all obligations imposed by the legislation of each country in which it operates, including the implementation of the EU Equality Directive, in relation to the recruitment and employment of its employees. The Company is committed to compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act, including the provision of reasonable accommodations, when appropriate, to assist employees or applicants to perform the essential functions of the job.