Group Project Manager (Business Operations)

Salary: $Competitive + excellent benefits (bonus, pension, healthcare, life cover etc.)

Job Title: Group Project Manager (Business Operations)

Location: Remote, (US)

About the role

The Group Project Manager works under the supervision of the Head of Integration within the Group Business Operations team to coordinate and manage a variety of strategic initiatives for the organization. They are a champion of organization and are the steward of the project roadmaps under their charge. The objective of the business operations group is to guide and shepherd strategic cross-functional projects across the organization, to facilitate holistic understanding of dependencies across critical initiatives and to facilitate relationships throughout the organization, all while minimizing disruption.

About Fishawack Health

Fishawack Health is the leading global commercialization partner for the modern life science era. Established in 2001 and headquartered in the UK, the organization is powered by a 1,300+ globe-spanning pack of strategic, creative, and scientific experts. We empower healthcare professionals and patients with the knowledge they need to live better lives.

Our core operating units—Medical, Marketing, Market Access, and Consulting—bring together best-in-class capabilities from around the world. We empower our pharmaceutical, biotech, and medical technology clients to navigate the most complex of ecosystems, helping them on an effective path to develop, launch, and grow their brands, services, and portfolios.

Our internationally recognized, award-winning teams collaborate across operations in the UK (Brighton, Fleet, London, Knutsford, Manchester, Oxford, and Sale), Ireland (Dublin), USA (Chicago, Evansville, Minneapolis, New York, Philadelphia, San Diego, Scottsdale, and St. Louis), Greece (Athens), and Singapore.

What you’ll do

• Liaise with third-party consulting partners, as required.
• Collaboration with the Group Business Ops team, Group Services, Capability leaders and relevant team members to plan and coordinate projects across multiple group-wide strategic initiatives.
• Embody the pillars of our philosophy: voice, collaboration, momentum, and harmony.
• Support PMO lead in communications initiatives to support understanding of program activities and interdependencies across the organization.
• Support in overall delivery of Strategic Initiative Roadmaps
• Analysis of progress and timelines; identifying dependencies, flagging to relevant teams and recommending timeline alterations where relevant; identifying potential “pinch points” where workload may be too great on functional teams and recommending alterations.
• Supporting relationships with leaders and those with operational responsibility to assist and facilitate tasks
• Tracking progress and providing regular status updates to all Stakeholders
• Attend workshops and meetings as needed throughout the process; Document outcomes and actions as required.
• Contribute to production of documents, slides and other assets for board meetings, project updates, and other collaboration with the wider business.
• Project management of group-wide strategic initiatives. Duties include scheduling, documentation, stakeholder and internal team communications, timeline management, workshop preparation and outcome analysis, problem resolution and other tasks as required.

About you

• Project management – manage project timelines; maintain overview of projects; arrange meetings and workshops; document, disseminate and store information; manage content of virtual workspaces.
• Technical – proficient in Microsoft Office product suite; proficient in Smartsheet, or Workfront platforms a plus; willingness to learn and work across different platforms; compile, analyze, and visualize data in a meaningful way
• Written – prepare and disseminate documents, plans, emails, meeting agendas, meeting notes and other written communications with clarity and fluency.
• Verbal – provide clear and concise updates in project meetings, foster a positive environment in team meetings and sessions.
• Organization – manage competing workflows and priorities across multiple teams; maintain task lists and provide clear status updates and project reports as needed.
• Communications – strong communication skills.
• Mid-level experience in operations, project management or other comparable department. This candidate has a good understanding of the business, its structure and core capabilities. Project management certifications or change management certifications a plus.

What we can offer

We offer a creative, supportive environment with a uniquely diverse career structure, where you will be able to develop and tailor your career towards your preferred route. Our Fuel50 talent experience platform will enable you to pick and map a career journey across the organisation, providing you with the option to progress within different areas of your team or beyond. Our Pack Academy provides a broad range of training delivered live and on-demand, which supplements on-the-job training and project team-led initiatives. We also offer a generous company pension, private medical insurance, various employee wellbeing initiatives, plus many other excellent employee benefits.