Project Manager Supplier Guidance

TekWissen LLC

North Chicago, IL
15 days ago

$90–$100

Highlights

Job Description: Role Overview: This person will develop and maintain the project plan, coordinate approximately 20 stakeholders, manage resources and dependencies, track risks, and drive deliverables through completion. TekWissen is a global workforce management provider headquartered in Ann Arbor, Michigan that offers strategic talent solutions to our clients world-wide.

Numbers & Facts

Location	North Chicago, IL
Industry	Computer/IT Services
Salary	$90–$100
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. This Client is mission is to discover and deliver innovative medicines and solutions that address complex health issues and enhance people s lives.

Job Title: Project Manager Supplier Guidance
Location:North Chicago, IL 60064
Duration: 12 Months
Job Type: Temporary Assignment
Work Type: Hybrid

Job Description:

Role Overview:

This person will develop and maintain the project plan, coordinate approximately 20 stakeholders, manage resources and dependencies, track risks, and drive deliverables through completion.
The role requires a hands-on project leader who can work across Quality, Operations, Technical Operations, IT, and other site functions. Strong project management experience is more important than specific pharmaceutical, manufacturing, or system experience.

Key Responsibilities:

Build and maintain the integrated project plan, including milestones, dependencies, resources, and effort estimates.
Coordinate cross-functional stakeholders and clarify ownership, timelines, and deliverables.
Track project progress, risks, issues, decisions, and action items.
Lead status meetings and provide clear project updates to leadership.
Follow up consistently on commitments and address delays or resource constraints.
Push back when deliverables are incomplete or deadlines are at risk.
Escalate issues appropriately when additional support or decisions are needed.
Maintain project documentation and support successful project execution through completion.

Required Qualifications:

Significant experience leading medium-sized projects from planning through completion.
Strong skills in project planning, scheduling, resource coordination, and risk management.
Experience using Microsoft Project, Excel, PowerPoint, or comparable project management tools.
Strong communication, organization, and leadership skills.
Ability to drive accountability without direct authority.
Comfortable taking ownership, challenging missed commitments, and escalating issues.
Ability to work effectively with cross-functional teams in a hybrid, site-based environment.

Preferred Qualifications:

Pharmaceutical, GMP, regulated manufacturing, quality, validation, or site operations experience.
Experience with MES, manufacturing systems, or technical implementation projects.
PMP or comparable project management certification.
Experience supporting cutovers or implementation activities.

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.