Associate Project Manager

 

• Work closely with other project managers within the department to deliver complex projects:
  • Monitoring and reporting: Tracking project progress, milestones, and deliverables, while providing regular updates to stakeholders
  • Resource coordination: Coordinating team members, resources, and, where necessary, external vendors to deliver agreed project goals and tasks
  • Documentation: Creating and updating project documentation, including risk logs and meeting minutes
  • Communication: Acting as a liaison between team members, clients, and project managers to ensure smooth communication
  • Risk mitigation: Proactively identifying and helping to solve potential problems in the production process.
• Work closely with other departmental teams (e.g. R&D, Marketing, Quality/Regulatory, Medical Affairs and Production) to deliver certain projects to agreed scope, cost, quality and timeline:
  • Project planning and support: Defining project scope, goals, and creating detailed project plans or schedules
  • Project coordination and communication: Organise and lead regular project team meetings ensuring timely completion of tasks. Analyse, plan and track project activities, communicating progress against plan on a regular basis to all relevant stakeholders, including maintaining decision logs, meeting minutes, timelines and shared documentation
  • Resource and risk management: In conjunction with relevant stakeholders identify resources required and manage these for all projects. With Head of PMO, manage resourcing, dependencies and interfaces between projects
  • Budget management: Track estimated project costs and proactively communicating deviations to relevant stakeholders.
• Ensure programme governance process is adhered to with formal documentation and reporting
• In conjunction with key stakeholders ensure project files are maintained to support the quality management system, particularly for the Quality System Regulation requirements of 21 CFR 820 and ISO 13485
• Apply project management tools and methodologies to ensure cross-functional alignment and accountability
• Develop positive relationships with internal teams and stakeholders
• Work with internal teams to ensure smooth transition to business as usual as the projects conclude and conduct lessons learned evaluations and guidance at the point of handover.

What we are looking for in you

Essential

• BSc in life or medical sciences or degree in project management
• 1-2 years of project management experience in a coordinating or support role
• Familiarity with Project Management principles, concepts, practices and standards
• Project Management software and tools experience eg MS Project, Monday, ClickUp, Excel, Sharepoint
• Strong communication (written/verbal), active listening, organisation, time management, and problem-solving skills
• Confident presentation skills, including communicating to senior stakeholders
• Ability to motivate cross functional teams to deliver successful projects
• Maintain team focus on quality while adhering to project timelines and goals.

Desirable

• Certification of competence in a recognised project management framework e.g. PMP
• Experience or understanding of diagnostic or genomics development projects in either the Life Sciences or diagnostic industry would be advantageous
• Familiarity with new product development processes within ISO 13485 as well as 21CFR 820 compliant quality systems
• Managing project level budgeting
• Building trusted, influential relationships with stakeholders that facilitate effective decision making and project execution.

In return you will receive: 

• Competitive salary
• Pension Scheme (10% non-contributory)
• Private Health Insurance
• Private Dental Insurance
• Group Income Protection
• Group Life Assurance
• 25 days holiday plus UK bank holidays
• High Street Discount Scheme.