Project Manager - II

TekWissen LLC

Foster City, CA
2 days ago

$55–$62

Highlights

Work Type: Hybrid Job Description : The Research Strategy, Innovation & Portfolio Management group is seeking a talented and highly motivated project manager to manage coordination and progression of scientific research projects in a highly collaborative environment and cross-functional matrix. Ability to organize new cross-functional project teams, define objectives and scope, identify tasks and milestones, build project schedules, identify resource needs, track execution to schedule, and manage risks.

Numbers & Facts

Location	Foster City, CA
Industry	Computer/IT Services
Salary	$55–$62
Company Size	100 to 499 employees
Year Founded	2009
Website	http://www.tekwissen.com/

Description

Overview:

TekWissen is a global workforce management provider headquartered in Ann Arbor, Michigan that offers strategic talent solutions to our clients world-wide. The below job opportunity is with one of our Biotech clients who researches develop and commercializes drugs. The company focuses primarily on antiviral drugs used in the treatment of HIV, hepatitis B, hepatitis C, and influenza, including Harvoni and Sovaldi.

Position: Project Manager - II
Location: Foster City, CA 94404
Duration: 14 Months
Job Type: Temporary Assignment
Work Type: Hybrid

Job Description:

The Research Strategy, Innovation & Portfolio Management group is seeking a talented and highly motivated project manager to manage coordination and progression of scientific research projects in a highly collaborative environment and cross-functional matrix.
The candidate will efficiently interact with multiple stakeholders representing multiple functions within the company to drive research projects forward to clinical development.

Essential Responsibilities:

Responsible for starting up or managing the research-based development subteams.
May help manage teams that are preparing to present their molecule at governance meeting for clinical development.
Experience working effectively with cross-functional project teams to build and develop the team, diagnose team health and taking action to address team issues.
Ability to organize new cross-functional project teams, define objectives and scope, identify tasks and milestones, build project schedules, identify resource needs, track execution to schedule, and manage risks.
Experience and ability in successfully managing multiple cross-functional tasks simultaneously.
Bachelor's degree with 7+ years, MS degree with 5+ years of relevant experience, which includes experience in the pharmaceutical industry as a functional area scientist or project manager.

Knowledge, Experience and Skills:

Direct experience or strong foundation in drug development process is preferred.
Experience should include participation in cross-functional project team activities.
Self-motivated, resourceful, high technical competence and process-oriented.
Clear and effective communication.
Ability to work both collaboratively and independently.
Strong proficiency with Microsoft Office tools (Outlook, Excel, PowerPoint, Word, and Teams) and Zoom.

TekWissen Group is an equal opportunity employer supporting workforce diversity.

About Company

WE THE TEKWISSEN PEOPLE

TekWissen offers you a broader portfolio of services, industry-leading solutions, and the meaningful innovations that give you greater flexibility and speed to respond to market dynamics, reduced costs and risk to improve enterprise performance, and increased productivity to enable growth.

To keep pace with global market demands, TekWissen keeps its finger on the pulse of change. Our organized approach to guiding a project from its inception to closure. Managing projects is becoming more and more important as we enter the digital era. To cope with the pace that this transition demands, a method is required to manage projects so they can yield quality work, while incorporating efficient use of time and resources.

Project involves identifying which quality standards are relevant to the project and determining how to satisfy them.

It is important to perform quality planning during the Planning Process and should be done alongside the other project planning processes because changes in the quality will likely require changes in the other planning processes, or the desired product quality may require a detailed risk analysis of an identified problem. It is important to remember that quality should be planned, designed, then built in, not added on after the fact.

Capabilities and accomplishments in one TekWissen business enhance the opportunity for success in the others. Put simply, TekWissen's unique combination of attributes promotes success.