Senior Project Manager (CPQ) - 9 month contract

Qualifications

• Formal qualification in project management at practitioner level, or an equivalent combination of relevant education and applicable work experience
• Track record of personally delivering complex information technology (IT) system projects to agreed scope, cost, schedule, and quality within a multi-site organisation
• Demonstrable experience of enterprise resource planning (ERP) implementation or integration work, including interface specification, master data, data migration, and cutover
• Experience delivering web development projects, including requirements definition, working with development teams through iterative build, and release into live service
• Proven ability to represent business interests within technology delivery, translating operational needs into system requirements and challenging technical proposals that do not meet them
• Experience planning and running user acceptance testing (UAT), including test scripts, defect triage, and go or no-go evidence
• Experience of business change and adoption activity, including process updates, training delivery, and post-implementation support
• Experience of managing technology suppliers and development partners through to acceptance of deliverables
• Sufficient technical literacy to challenge and interrogate technical solutions, including application integration and interfaces, databases, and data structures, without being a hands-on developer
• Working knowledge of quality management systems, with experience delivering systems subject to computerised system validation, data integrity, and International Organization for Standardization (ISO) or regulatory requirements
• Practical, hands-on planning capability, including project schedules, critical path analysis, budget tracking, and risk and issue management
• Strong stakeholder management at working and site level, with the ability to translate between technical and non-technical audiences and influence without direct authority
• Degree in a scientific, engineering, business, or computing discipline
• Experience of a named enterprise resource planning (ERP) platform, such as IFS, SAP, or Microsoft Dynamics
• Experience in the diagnostics, genomics, or wider life sciences industry, including laboratory or manufacturing systems such as laboratory information management systems (LIMS) or manufacturing execution systems (MES)
• Working knowledge of agile delivery frameworks and experience operating in a hybrid agile and stage-gate delivery environment
• Formal qualification in business analysis, or in a continuous improvement methodology such as Lean or Six Sigma
• Experience of working across United States and Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) time zones with cross-functional and supplier teams