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Project Manager

Location: Bridgewater, NJ
Job # 142020
Date Posted: 11/6/09
Human Capital Consultants is a strategic professional services consulting organization serving industry leading, entrepreneurial, and near start-up organizations across the United States. Human Capital Consultants offers proven, customizable and matrix driven solutions for our clients’ Recruitment, Human Capital Management, and Human Resource Consulting needs. Human Capital Consultants has the experience and bandwidth to provide clients a wide array of resources from a single Recruitment or HR Resource to an entire team dedicated to single or multi-location needs, including Strategic Engagement Planning and Management. For more information visit our web site http://www.humancapitalconsultants.com
 
Project Manager – Full time position in Bridgewater, NJ
 
The Project Manager is expected to lead technical and non-technical teams. The successful candidate will assess strategic objectives, motivate team members, set priorities, co-ordinate resources and identify & develop business relationships with our clients and vendors. The Project Manager works closely with the VP of Delivery/Solutions Architects to ensure efficient use of resources, the timeliness of the deliverables and client satisfaction
 
Work with assigned business customers to determine needs regarding business processes and functionality, make recommendations as appropriate.  Must possess the ability to manage multiple tasks with minimal supervision, have exceptional attention to detail and perform consistent work product validation/QA.  Recognize opportunities and make recommendations to help business partners accomplish work more effectively and efficiently and/or increased quality and reliability.
 
Responsibilities
 
·         Manage project planning, scope, issues and risks; specifically project plan, status reporting, deliverable oversight, client interactions, budget, adherence to process
·         Lead project team by working closely with analysts, architects and developers
·         Clearly communicates to both IT and business unit staff the impact of the project.
·         Facilitate requirements gathering from both technical and non-technical business personnel.
·         Transform results of requirements meetings into documentation using standard formats.  Seek corrections and incorporate changes into documentation; facilitates final sign-off from appropriate business unit officer/s. 
·         Develops business cases including ROI/TCO estimation
·         Works closely with project team by assisting in evaluation of business/functional requirements in order to create data models, system requirements, technical specifications
·         Articulates complex ideas, issues and designs to varied audiences; communicates project objectives, scope and direction to project team; educates IT staff on business vision and plan.
·         Manage system changes and keep requirement documents current; negotiate changes to project plans based on new requirements. Enforce change management processes and capture all changes as new revisions of systems documentation.  Track and communicate cost implications of changes to the business units, obtain approval to incur the costs.
·         Assist in validation of systems against business/functional requirements. 
 
Required Qualifications
 
·         Bachelors level degree in business or technical discipline and 5 years or greater professional experience
·         Experience planning and implementing large projects/systems at  Pharmaceutical clients in a consulting environment
·         Experience managing projects
·         Full project life cycle management utilizing Project Management Institute - PMBOK Methodology and concepts
·         Self-directed, independent thinker that can creatively, tactfully and effectively drive a project to completion within assigned parameters
·         Skilled in process modeling, financial analysis, business value analysis and business process design 
·         Knowledgeable in PMLC/SDLC processes, roles, responsibilities and deliverables
·         Experience authoring business and functional requirements documents and other technical documentation
·         Strong understanding of e-Business concepts and Web based system technologies
·         Experience with external facing applications planning and design
·         Skilled in creation of workflow diagram creation, system mockups using HTML or wire frame diagrams and Use Cases
·         Experience creating test plans and related documentation
·         Negotiation, facilitation and consensus building skills
·         Strong oral and written communication skills
 
 
Preferred Qualifications
 
·         Graduate level degree in business or technical discipline and 10 years or greater professional experience
·         PMP certification
·         Experience in a Contract Management environment, either commercial or government domain.
·         Knowledge of CARS, CPCC, Model N, IDEAL, Government Pricing or Medicaid
Or
·         Experience in Rx Commercial Operations environment.
 
About Our Client
 
Our client is focused on the Life Sciences vertical market delivering high-value Enterprise Life Cycle Management, Contract Management, Information Management and Master Data Management solutions to both major and middle market pharmaceutical and bio-technology companies.  The firm has an over 12 year track record in IT solutions, software development & integration.
 
Interested and qualified candidates are invited to apply online http://humancapitalconsultants.catsone.com/careers
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