Senior Project Manager - PV

Senior Project Manager

Hays Life Science is now looking for a Senior Project Manager - PV for a consulting assignment at AstraZeneca in Gothenburg. The assignment is initially for 1 year with possibility of extension for an additional year. Send your application no later than August 17th.

Day-to-Day Duties

Leads small projects or supports large projects/programmes. Main focus will be support to oversight of outsourced services for patient safety, including those relating to the AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine. The individual has a working knowledge of project management methodologies, tools and templates and contributes to the development and maintenance of work products or change programmes. They ensure that business requirements are effectively captured, and are responsible for effective tracking and reporting of project management information and highlighting and supporting resolution of areas of risk in project delivery.

* Provides support to the Patient Safety Director in planning, managing, and monitoring outsourced service delivery
* Effectively manages risk and changes to outsourced service scope
* Develops and manages execution of project plans for projects or programmes, including activities, resources, costs, roles, responsibilities and quality and ensures tracking of the project delivering on time and on budget
* Assists in the initiation, coordination and analysis of resource allocation, financial controls and documentation preparation
* Establishes relationships with business stakeholders to capture business requirements and ensure their understanding and commitment to the outsourced service objectives
* Provides support to the departments by gathering and analysing data in the establishment and/or maintenance of corporate business processes, procedures and policies
* Prepares presentation materials for management reports
* Develops online management reports and key performance parameters
* Evaluates and monitors the performance and efficiency of programs to ensure that program implementation is on target
* Assists with the preparation of a variety of reports covering budget status, forecast reports and other management reports
* Works with project staff to prepare cost application and budgets for new business development
Works on overall project planning through reporting on project schedules and deliverables

Required Skills/ Experience/ Education/ Qualifications
* Minimum 2-5 years working in pharmacovigilance
* Minimum 2-5 years vendor management experience
* Experience of managing small projects/programmes or in a similar role
* Well developed organisational and interpersonal skills
* Experience of working with third party suppliers
* Experience of working application of policies, procedures and guidelines
* Life science experience or background

Desirable Skills/ Experience/ Education/ Qualifications
* Business degree / professional qualification
* Experience of working in a global organisation with complex/geographical context
* Data Science

Required/Desired Technical Proficiencies (i.e. Excel, SAP, etc.)
* Fully competent with Microsoft applications