Sr Program Management Consultant (32608)

Sr Project Management Consultant
Location: Waukegan, IL (3 days onsite)
Company: Myticas's direct client based in North Chicago, IL

Summary

One of our Direct clients is looking to add a Seasoned Sr Project/Program Management Consultant to their team. The main project is tied to an EEG brain scan technology and the person needs to have an SDLC background. Experience with medical devices and phase 1 installation would be a great nice-to-have. This individual will be meeting with VP and Vendors as well as being responsible for budget management.

Key Responsibilities

• Initiate and Plan Project: Works with business and IT management to establish and gain consensus on project goals, objectives, financials and deliverables. Responsible for building the plan and resources needs to accomplish the scope.
• Project Control: Assess the degree to which changes to scope, issues and risks will affect the project working with business and IT management and sponsor to gain agreement for resolution. Measure performance to assure the project is progressing as compared to original plan and budget.
• Executing and Closing Project: Develops and executes a work plan obtaining authorized resources to ensure all activities are performed. Leads team in delivering project scope. Gather lessons learned and obtain final project approval from sponsor and stakeholders.
• Project Communication: Communicate project progress by producing project reports to provide timely and accurate program status and decision support information to project teams, business, and IT management. Makes recommendations based on current project status to resolve issues and manage risks.
• Resource and Team Management: Coordinate resources to ensure project needs are addressed and effectively assign tasks and deliverables to team members based upon their abilities. Motivates project team in order to deliver project outcomes.
• Quality Management: Responsible for compliance with applicable Corporate and functional policies and procedures.
• Decisions: Make decisions that impact project level activities. Influences or has final decision authority for project budget.
• Financial Control: Develops and manages a financial plan with multi-million dollar spend. Tracks actual spend, accruals, proactively creates spend estimates on a regular basis (at least monthly) and coordinates estimates and invoices with project vendors, in order to maintain spend at +/- 10% of the overall project budget.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in business, Information Systems/Computer Science or related discipline.
• Proven Microsoft Project, PowerPoint, Excel, and Word skills are required.
• 5-10 years of experience in project management
• Experience managing SDLC projects.
• Key Stakeholders:
• Business and Technology resources; varying levels of leadership

Preferred Qualifications

• PMP Certification
• PPM Tool experience
• Pharmaceutical experience
• Experience managing projects to deliver or enhance validated systems.

This is a hybrid position requiring both remote and onsite work in Waukegan, IL.