Project Coordinator Jobs

As aProject Coordinator, you will leverage your life sciences, biotechnology and/or pharmaceutical experience to manage small to medium sized projects, workstreams, and discovery initiatives as defined by the Global Patient Safety (GPS) Project Management Office (PMO).With minimal supervision, the Project Coordinator is expected to gather and evaluate requirements, develop project plans, manage execution within the allotted constraints and lead the project team through closure.

Responsibilities

• Track and facilitate the resolution of project risk, issues and manage escalations to the PMO and GPS leadership.
• Apply best-in-class project management approaches to support execution.
• Create and present project status updates and dashboards that clearly communicate the project’s performance, accomplishments, risks, issues, and upcoming activities.
• Support program/project managers with project coordination (scheduling meetings, taking minutes, documenting risks/mitigations).
• Establish a project management plan to summarize the scope of work, deliverables list, master schedule, org chart, quality expectations, etc.
• Lead project mobilization efforts (create the project charter, forecast the timeline, estimate resource requirements, etc.), planning efforts (capture user stories, identify project milestones, success criteria, develop the project plan), and execution activities for low to medium complexity projects, workstreams or initiatives.
• Lead project meetings, establish team member accountability, influence collaboration by sharing lessons learned and other materials.

Qualifications

• A bachelor’s degree in a scientific, healthcare, or an information technology discipline is preferred.
• Familiar with principles of pharmacovigilance.
• Required Project Management Professional (PMP) or Certified Scrum Master (CSM) certification
• Strong interpersonal and presentation skills, including the ability to liaise with senior leaders.
• Knowledgeable about GVP, GCP, and GxP practices.
• Strong proficiency with current collaboration tools (MS Teams & Zoom).
• 3+ years of biotech/pharmaceutical experience supporting/managing pharmacovigilance related projects is preferred.
• Ability to influence, collaborate and negotiate to achieve business strategies, drive accountability, and deliver results.
• Strong proficiency with MS Project, Smartsheet, and PowerBI, MS applications (Vision, PowerPoint, Excel, Word, Office 365).
• Ability to deal with ambiguity and deliver against objectives within a complex evolving environment.