Senior Functional Analyst
EEOC
PMP
Project Director – Life Sciences
Wood
full-time
Posted on:
Origin: • 🇺🇸 United States • Pennsylvania, South Carolina
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Lead
Tech Stack
PMP
About the role
- P & L responsibility with associated commercial and financial accountability including revenue delivery, margin and overhead management, budget and forecast determination and attainment, risk and opportunity reviews, cost controls, accounts payable/billing and cash collection
- Contributes to and reviews the project proposal and plan to establish timeframe, procedures for accomplishing the project, resource requirements, and allotment of available resources to various phases of the project
- Negotiates changes to project scope with the customer and follows Change Management process to identify and approve modifications to scope, cost, schedule and quality
- Pursues and develops opportunities for innovation, such as digitalization and technology use, work share and high value engineering centers
- Approves project procedures and project execution plan including the scope of work, deliverables list, master schedule, budget, org charts, risk register etc.
- Ensures competence of project team members to carry out assigned work and oversees proposals and call-offs
- Monitors adherence to schedule, cost and quality and proactively intervenes to avoid slippage
- Ensure that the required project management software systems are established for the project and the supporting training is completed
- Ensure the project assurance protocol and schedule are established and participate in assurance activities and peer reviews
- Responsible for the project HSSE leadership, ensures a program of initiatives and auditing schedule are established
- Drive good practices, including corporate initiatives, across projects and programs
- Resolve complex issues which are escalated by project team and manage relationships with external stakeholders including suppliers, subcontractors, customers and community groups
- Involved in establishing terms and conditions and may be involved in closing the deal and attracting specialised staff from outside the organization
- Guide and direct large project teams, including project managers, external specialists and staff from multiple offices and sites
Requirements
- University degree (bachelors or masters) in relevant discipline or equivalent combination of qualifications and experience
- Project Management Professional (PMP), Associate in Project Management (APM) or equivalent certification is preferred
- Typically requires more than 20 years of broad and extensive pertinent experience, including minimum 10 years project management experience, mastering their area and knowledgeable about impacts on other areas
- Requires strong technical skill as relevant to the project scope(s)
- Good level of experience in the related field, industry, and locations of the work
- Thorough knowledge of project success and benefits management
- Expert in stakeholder management with extensive experience in managing challenging stakeholders and able to coach and advise others in this area
- Thorough understanding of requirements management from creation to monitoring to verification of complex project requirements and their linkage to business benefits
- Knowledge of workflow management, established policies for engineering ownership, globalization of projects and request for tender process
- Experienced in assembling and managing multi-phase project budgets, including risk contingencies
- Expert Practitioner in Risk Management processes, well versed in how risks are transposed into cost, time and contingency estimates and forecasts
- Advanced knowledge of various forms of vendor contracts across many types of goods and services; able to create new appropriate contracting frameworks and negotiate to successful conclusions
- Able to manage complex major project start-up, produce and communicate the project execution plan
- Able to negotiate appropriate close-out terms with all key stakeholders
- Sound practice and experience of commercial and technical risk management
- Able to drive cash flow management as well as projection/forecast of cost at completion
- Safety focused on an uncompromising approach to risk management
- Passionately and visibly pursues and supports, demonstrates and embeds company values
- Able to motivate, engage and influence a diverse group of people, many without a direct reporting relationship
- Customer focused – develops sincere and open relationships with customers, current and potential; constantly striving to exceed expectations and add value
- Ability to effectively manage resources (personnel, equipment, materials etc.)
- Excellent verbal, written and presentational communication skills; able to handle sensitive communications and to communicate complex issues in simple ways
- Strong team builder capable of identifying and adopting best practices, engendering a spirit of cooperation and energizing people towards optimum performance
- Entrepreneurial approach - ability to identify and pursue opportunities to add value to client and Wood
- Flexible to respond in agile ways to change internal and external context and customer needs
- A motivated self-starter, who can self-direct when required, able to use own initiative to make appropriate decisions but also know when escalation is required
- Critical thinker, able to interpret complex data and with strong problem-solving abilities
- Strong influencer, negotiator and mediator
