Senior Project Manager (CPQ) - 9 month contract

About the Position

We are seeking a Senior Project Manager (CPQ) for a 9-month contract to manage IT-enabled projects across the United States and EMEA regions. This role involves end-to-end delivery accountability for projects that impact business processes enabled through enterprise technology applications.

Responsibilities

• Take end-to-end delivery accountability for business-led projects enabled by IT solutions, including requirements gathering through build, testing, deployment, adoption, and handover into live service.
• Act as the business's representative throughout the delivery lifecycle, translating operational, commercial, and quality needs into system requirements.
• Own and maintain the project plan, budget, risk and issue log, and dependency list, tracking progress against agreed scope, cost, schedule, and quality.
• Deliver web-based platform and application projects, including requirements definition, user experience and accessibility expectations, content and data ownership, and release planning.
• Work with the IT Technical Delivery Lead to plan and run user acceptance testing (UAT), including test scripts, business tester coordination, defect triage, and evidence to support the go or no-go recommendation.
• Identify, manage, and liaise with stakeholders impacted by initiatives to ensure alignment with business sponsors and resource allocation and engagement to deliver business benefits.
• Deliver business change and adoption activity for assigned projects, including impact assessment, process updates, training delivery, cutover communications, and post-implementation support.
• Manage technology suppliers and development partners engaged on the project, including scope definition, performance monitoring, change control, and acceptance of deliverables.
• Ensure assigned projects meet the quality management system, computerized system validation, data integrity, and information security requirements applicable to a regulated life sciences environment.
• Own and deliver concise and action-oriented project communication through regular project updates in PMO tools, steering committees, etc.
• Resolve day-to-day issues and competing priorities between business functions and IT, escalating promptly to the Programme Manager or Programme Management and Operational Excellence (PM&OE) leadership where resolution falls outside the project's authority.
• Provide guidance and informal coaching to Project Managers and business project team members, and contribute lessons learned to PM&OE delivery frameworks, templates, and reporting.

Requirements

• Essential Knowledge and Qualifications:

  • Formal qualification in project management at practitioner level, or an equivalent combination of relevant education and applicable work experience.
  • Track record of personally delivering complex information technology (IT) system projects to agreed scope, cost, schedule, and quality within a multi-site organization.
  • Demonstrable experience of enterprise resource planning (ERP) implementation or integration work, including interface specification, master data, data migration, and cutover.
  • Experience delivering web development projects, including requirements definition, working with development teams through iterative build, and release into live service.
  • Proven ability to represent business interests within technology delivery, translating operational needs into system requirements and challenging technical proposals that do not meet them.
  • Experience planning and running user acceptance testing (UAT), including test scripts, defect triage, and go or no-go evidence.
  • Experience of business change and adoption activity, including process updates, training delivery, and post-implementation support.
  • Experience of managing technology suppliers and development partners through to acceptance of deliverables.
  • Sufficient technical literacy to challenge and interrogate technical solutions, including application integration and interfaces, databases, and data structures, without being a hands-on developer.
  • Working knowledge of quality management systems, with experience delivering systems subject to computerized system validation, data integrity, and International Organization for Standardization (ISO) or regulatory requirements.
  • Practical, hands-on planning capability, including project schedules, critical path analysis, budget tracking, and risk and issue management.
  • Strong stakeholder management at working and site level, with the ability to translate between technical and non-technical audiences and influence without direct authority.

• Desired Knowledge and Qualifications:

  • Degree in a scientific, engineering, business, or computing discipline.
  • Experience of a named enterprise resource planning (ERP) platform, such as IFS, SAP, or Microsoft Dynamics.
  • Experience in the diagnostics, genomics, or wider life sciences industry, including laboratory or manufacturing systems such as laboratory information management systems (LIMS) or manufacturing execution systems (MES).
  • Working knowledge of agile delivery frameworks and experience operating in a hybrid agile and stage-gate delivery environment.
  • Formal qualification in business analysis, or in a continuous improvement methodology such as Lean or Six Sigma.
  • Experience of working across United States and Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) time zones with cross-functional and supplier teams.

We Offer

• Customary salary range: $124,000 - $184,000 USD per annum.
• Work Arrangement: Remote.
• Contract Duration: 9 months.

About the Company

LGC Biosearch Technologies is a leading, global life science tools company, providing mission-critical components and solutions into high-growth application areas across the human healthcare and applied market segments. Our integrated portfolio of products, services, and expertise supports our purpose of Science for a Safer World.

Our Values

• PASSION
• CURIOSITY
• INTEGRITY
• BRILLIANCE
• RESPECT

Equal Opportunities

LGC strongly believes that every job applicant and employee should be valued for their individual talents regardless of age, disability, race, color, ethnic or national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, marital or civil partnership, pregnancy or maternity, religion, or belief. Short listing, interviewing, and selection will always be carried out without regard to gender, sexual orientation, marital status, color, race, nationality, ethnic or national origins, religion or belief, age, or trade union membership.

For more information about LGC, please visit our website www.lgcgroup.com.

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