Full-Time Post of Project Manager
Job Description
BRING QUALITY TO LIFE
GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) is one of the world’s leading research-based pharmaceutical and healthcare companies. We have a challenging and inspiring mission to improve the quality of human life by enabling people to do more, feel better and live longer. With a firm foundation in science, we discover, develop, manufacture and distribute prescription medicines, vaccines and consumer health products. Headquartered in the UK, with major business operations in the US, we employ more than 99,000 people in 120 countries.
If you are the kind of person that dreams of making the world a better, healthier place with a passion to succeed and a strong commitment to integrity & professionalism, then we’d love to hear from you.
Role profile
- Deliver the agreed outcomes within agreed time, cost, scope and quality.
- Identify and negotiate schedules, milestones, budgets and resource requirements to meet project outcomes.
- Develop project plans specifying goals, deliverables, resources (including sourcing approach), scheduling, contingency plans and allocation.
- Organise and co-ordinate tasks and activities performed by the project team to ensure project progress.
- Track and manage the project budget
- Ensure that project team follows methodologies and tools consistent with GSK CCIT project management policy and procedures.
- Ensure all risk and issues associated with the Sri Lanka ICE Project are recorded and managed in the project Risk Actions Issues Decision (RAID) log in a timely manner, according to programme standards.
- Communicate plans, status, risks and issues to project governance team and stakeholders in a timely manner, and along escalation paths defined by the programme.
- Identify, clarify and gain sponsorship for changes in project scope
- Manage and coordinate project related third party relationships (e.g. Offshore providers, Software vendors)
- Provide support for business case development and project approval process
- Enlist appropriate levels of management as sponsors of change throughout the project.
- Ensure project goals are achieved on time in alignment with the stakeholders’ expectation.
- Driving, enabling, and managing business change and process reengineering where required.
Personal Profile
- Comprehensive experience in project management, including delivery of complex IT projects and services, on both in-country and above-country levels
- Demonstrated matrix management skills and a clear ability to work effectively in cross functional team environment including vendor and offshore teams
- Proven experience in managing virtual teams
- Strong leadership and influencing skills to drive change across a wide range of stakeholders
- Leadership ability in managing programmes including sub-streams and projects.
- Strong interpersonal skills, including networking and teamwork abilities, combined with excellent negotiation and communication skills (within both IT and Business communities)
- Minimum 8 years IT Project Management experience.
- Fluent in English language (verbal and written)
- Proven experience in managing the introduction of business change
- Prior integration experience of an ERP system deployment. In particular experience of SAP / JD Edwards will be a distinct advantage.
How to Apply
Please mail your resume to careers.srilanka@gsk.com.With names of two non-related referees including the post applied for in the subject line. Your resume should reach us on or before 16th October 2015. Senior Manager – Human Resources, GlaxoSmithKline Consumer Healthcare, Level 34, West Tower, World Trade Centre, Colombo 01.747 total views, 1 today