SIRE Life Sciences®

IT Project Manager

Location: Netherlands
SIRE® is the market leader in Life Sciences recruitment. We believe the recruitment market needs to gear up in technology and continuous innovation. We like technology, in a Life Sciences market driven on science, we couldn’t stay behind; we drive Recruitment Science. Investing a majority of our turnover in technology enables us to use unique Resource Technologies. By using highly advanced algorithms, we enable our team of Resource & Data Strategists© to maintain the most advanced, detailed and complete Life Sciences network in Europe. This big data enables us to work Reverse Recruitment©: we first analyze the market in-depth before we go out to the market. Because we analyze the whole market, we can compare facts and data. This enables us to do Facts & Big Data Recruitment©, making sure we, or better yet, you find the right career!Our client is a professional Pharmaceutical organisation, based in Noord-Holland Netherlands.

The Company

It's a biopharmaceutical company engaged in the development of innovative cancer immunotherapies with a goal of providing rapid, long-term durable response and eliminating the burden of chronic care. The company is focused on chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) and T cell receptor (TCR) engineered cell therapies designed to empower the immune system's ability to recognise and kill tumors. With an unrelenting drive and a singular focus on cell therapy, the Kite team is executing on their strategy to bring life-saving therapies to patients.

Role Description

The position is initially a 6 month contract opportunity for an experienced IT Project Manager based at Kite’s offices in the Netherlands. The candidate will support the onsite IT Programme Manager in management of the IT workstreams required for the operationalisation of the Manufacturing site, tracking and managing programme activities, identifying critical interdependencies and risks, and mitigating these as required.

The candidate must possess excellent communication skills and must be savvy working with both technology and business partners across the organisation in a collaborative way.

Responsibilities

- Development, maintenance and communication of IT Project Dashboard(s);
- Development, maintenance and communication of IT Project Schedule(s);
- Ensure alignment of critical milestones across project workstreams, perform risk and schedule impact assessment for any technology or business schedule changes due to movement of any of the critical or interdependent milestones;
- Manage and track key project activities, escalating delays and risks to IT Programme Manager as required;
- Facilitate IT, or cross-functional meetings for discussion, issue resolution, action items, agreements;
- Facilitate and drive the definition and approval of vendor contracts for project delivery;
- Manage executed vendor contracts, purchase orders and invoicing for project deliverables;
- Stringent financial management with monthly/ quarterly tracking and reporting of project financials;
- Escalate issues and risks to appropriate steering committees, IT leadership, or governance groups;
- Manage a diverse group of stakeholders across different geographical regions.

Requirements

Knowledge, Experience and Skills:
- Professional IT Project Manager with a proven track record of delivering complex, cross-functional projects;
- Proven professional project management experience;
- Excellent knowledge and understanding of project management methodologies, tools and techniques;
- Proven financial management experience;
- Proven experience in stakeholder management;
- Proven experience in vendor management;
- Extensive experience in dealing with senior management up to executive level;
- Ability to communicate in a precise, professional, efficient and transparent manner to all levels within an organisation;
- Ability to work with dispersed and global teams and locations;
- Experience in the Pharmaceutical Manufacturing industry preferred;
- Experience in the delivery of GxP projects preferred;
- Relevant professional qualification would be advantageous if combined with practical experience;
- Fluency in the English language is required.

Behaviours:
- Resilient profile with the ability to deliver in an ambiguous environment;
- Ability to engage and manage multiple stakeholders to achieve the objective;
- Curious with learning agility;
- Operationally excellent;
- Organised with systematic approach to prioritization;
- Process orientated to achieve the business objective.

Other information

- There is an immediate need to on-board an IT Project Manager to support the onsite IT Programme Manager with oversight and management of the technical workstreams including infrastructure, business and site support systems required for operational running of the site;
- The candidate must be comfortable with ambiguity and have a strong ability to bring order and discipline to projects that engage many stakeholders and delivery partners;
- The position will require the candidate to be a strong team player with ability to liaise and manage teams on-site and remotely;
- Some international travel may be required.

Are you interested and do want to apply for this role, please fill out your application via the apply button below and contact Michelle Tang.
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