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Fortrea
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As a leading global contract research organization (CRO) with a passion for scientific rigor and decades of clinical development experience, Fortrea provides pharmaceutical, biotechnology, and medical device customers a wide range of clinical development, patient access and technology solutions across more than 20 therapeutic areas. With over 19,000 staff conducting operations in more than 90 countries, Fortrea is transforming drug and device development for partners and patients across the globe.
Job Overview:
The IT Project Director oversees and directs multiple international projects concurrently. Accountable for project execution to include managing project leaders and teams, developing and managing budgets, timelines,
and quality guidelines for projects, thereby ensuring that expectations are met while identifying and mitigating risks. The IT Project Director is accountable for oversight of project communications, scope, schedule, cost, quality, and stakeholders. They ensure that variance from project plans is proactively mitigated, and client expectations are met by the team. The IT Project Director also ensures accurate documentation for the project, with timely data updates that are high quality. They supervise and assess the performance of the core team members and motivate, train, and develop the team's expertise. They ensure efficient and effective day-to-day operations, while maintaining good relationships with sponsors. The IT Project Director is expected to have a working knowledge of IT solution development, solution deployment, data migration, solution retirement, IT infrastructure and IT cyber security. The IT Project Director may also have line management and / or business development responsibilities.
Summary of Responsibilities:
Project delivery
- Responsible for project delivery with regards to agreed time, scope, cost, quality, successful outcomes, and project value
- TEAM COMMUNICATION: Serve as key business/client contact for assigned projects, establishing working relationships with business/client project teams which result in business/client satisfaction, operational excellence and thereby increase potential for project ROI or repeat client business
- Lead core project team(s) and facilitate team's ability to lead extended project team(s), ensuring effective cross-functional teamwork among project team members including both internal and external stakeholders
- Serve as escalation point for project issues to internal and external stakeholders, as appropriate
- PLANNING: Create, maintain,
and manage detailed Project Plans using approved PMO Tools; clearly articulating work breakdown structures of deliverables by phase, activity, and task; with role assignments and estimates to complete on each task
- RESOURCE MANAGEMENT: Partner with resource managers and functional owners to identify all resources required to execute your plan, negotiate, and place resource requests and manage the resource plan for your projects
- TEAM COMMUNICATION: Proactively identify and resolve conflicts as needed
- COST: With key stakeholders, develop the project delivery strategy, costing assumptions and resulting budget for assigned project(s). Create and maintain project accounting records to accurately reflect, by month, by expenditure type and class; project spend-to-date, estimates to complete and estimates at complete; analyzing with explanation any variance between budget, plan, actuals and forecast.
- SCOPE:
Oversee delivery of project(s) to scope, schedule, and costs, ensuring all remain on track with the contract and with financial performance targets. Initiate and implement appropriate actions to proactively manage the change control process both internally and externally
- RISK: Proactively lead both quality control and risk assurance activities to ensure project deliverables are met according to regulatory, and business/client requirements
- QUALITY: Oversee team management of and variance to required project plans. Ensure that all staff allocated to assigned project(s) adheres to professional standards and SOPs, managing team performance and adjustments as necessary. Ensure that projects are delivered meeting GxP Quality compliance rules and regulations as it applies to IT projects
- Develop and manage to key project performance indicators ensuring that the KPIs are within scope of the project charter/contract
- Define and manage project resource needs and establish succession plans for key resources
- Use experience from previous projects and lessons learned to ensure process improvements are implemented successfully across all projects
- Ensure that Steering Committee is established for projects and lead or co-lead the meeting with the business to ensure that leadership is kept appraised of status, upcoming activities, dependencies, risks, and roadblocks
- Develop an understanding of Agile ways of working and Product mindset and assist in moving the organization towards adopting these ways
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