Zifo

Informatics / ELN Program Manager

Zifo

full-time

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Location: Massachusetts • 🇺🇸 United States

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Job Level

SeniorLead

Tech Stack

PMP

About the role

  • Location: Cambridge, MA
  • Zifo is searching for a Senior Program Manager to manage one of Zifo’s strategic multi-year programs for a marquee customer based in the Cambridge, MA area. This Program manager role would engage cross functionally working with customer SMEs, Business Owners, Informatics Solution Owners, IT Teams, external customer groups ( eg. Validation and GXP process groups) and 3rd party vendor partner teams.

Requirements

  • You will partner with the Business Systems owner in executing a slew of development projects involving Benchling ELN and Signals platforms
  • Assist in the rollout of these platforms across 3 sites globally
  • Support pharma Sciences and Biologics research and early CMC
  • Assist in developing a Platform Feature Development lifecycle with the objective of seamless and efficient adoption of Benchling as the Informatics platform of choice, specifically.
  • Keep track multiple and concurrent development tracks for the risk and issues and own their mitigation
  • Identify cross dependencies and promote efficiency across parallel workstreams
  • Develop and implement visualization capabilities to represent project execution status and other key project metrices
  • Develop MIS reports for both tactical and executive consumption
  • Develop and report key program execution operational metrices, identify efficiency improvement levers and their implementation
  • Have a purview of the operational support work done by the Zifo team in the engagement and provide required inputs, assistance, and guidance
  • Monitor vendor project execution and ensure their alignment for the project portfolio execution plan and adherence to schedule, scope and budget
  • Adopt an agile approach to project execution with the objective to improve transparency of program status and reduce operational inefficiencies
  • Periodically review the effectiveness of the intake and prioritization process and suggest optimization steps
  • Advanced level knowledge in tools such as JIRA, Smartsheet, MS Project and MS Office Suite
  • Experience working in consultative program management roles define project execution strategies
  • Experience in preparing status and other operational reports for consumption across various levels of leadership
  • Strong analytical skills to make decisions with available data/information at hand
  • Strong Written and Oral communication skills
  • Strong negotiation skills to work with competing business priorities to arrive at an execution roadmap in line with the business strategy and roadmap
  • Adept in building relationships across various levels the organization, within and outside of the working groups
  • Understanding of Drug Discovery & Development processes
  • Exposure/working knowledge of Lean or similar process optimization methodologies
  • Minimum of 10 years of experience in independently managing large scale projects / programs
  • Project Management Certification preferably PMI-ACP, PMI-PgMP or PMI-PMP)
  • Prior exposure to Pharmaceutical or Biotech Research and Development industry
  • Minimum of 5 years of experience in executing project in Agile methodologies such as SCRUM and possess expertise on all aspects of Program Management
  • Experience working with multidisciplinary teams located across varies geographies
  • Experience in managing projects involved in multiple Systems Integration preferably including 3rd party COTS products
  • Independent, Self-Motivated & Results driven individual
  • Willingness & ability to acquire quickly new Technical Skills & Business Principles
  • Prior experience working as Business Analyst in documenting and eliciting requirements / Use Cases
  • Possess good Understanding of Drug Discovery & Development processes
  • Exposure/working knowledge of Lean or similar process optimization methodologies