US Pharmacopeia · 1 day ago
IT Project Manager
Rockville, MD
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
$87K/yr - $113K/yr
8+ years expThe U.S. Pharmacopeial Convention (USP) is an independent scientific organization committed to developing quality standards for medicines and food ingredients. They are seeking an IT Project Manager to lead complex projects, ensuring they meet business objectives and quality standards while managing stakeholder expectations and project budgets.
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Responsibilities
Takes full responsibility for the definition, documentation, and successful completion of large-scale, complex projects (typically with significant business, or high-profile impact, and high-risk dependencies)
Adopts and adapts project management methods and tools, selecting appropriately from plan-driven/predictive approaches or more adaptive (iterative and agile) approaches
Ensures that effective project control, change control, risk management and testing processes are maintained. Monitors and controls resources, revenue and capital costs against the project budget and manages expectations of all project stakeholders
Monitors and controls resources, revenue and capital costs against the project budget and manages expectations of all project stakeholders
Ensures end results are of the highest caliber with a clearly articulated scope and quantifiable business benefits
Leads and manages projects often involving multiple internal and external constituents and matrix partners
Manages scope and risk to ensure commitments are achieved within agreed upon time, cost, and quality parameters
Monitors, controls, and validates financial forecast, resources, and capital costs against the project budget and provides on-going reconciliation of resources and other related project expenditures in alignment with project stakeholders’ expectations
Develops communication plans and appropriate vehicles to execute on responsibilities
Represents the project in briefings to sponsors, key stakeholders, governance, and inter-department forums
Defines and tracks project milestones while developing, maintaining, and reporting on an overall integrated project schedule and delivery plan
Develops the project charter, integrated project plan, resource plan, risk plan, and related project management artifacts; publishes periodic project status reports
Qualification
Required
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Business, or related field
Minimum of eight (8) years of demonstrated outcomes delivery across different types of high-value IT projects or equivalent experience of which five (5) years should be hands on project management in an IT environment managing a variety of large complex projects
Demonstrates leadership
Communicates effectively, both formally and informally
Facilitates collaboration between stakeholders who have diverse objectives
Analyses, designs, plans, executes and evaluates work to time, cost and quality targets
Demonstrates creativity, innovation, and ethical thinking in applying solutions for the benefit of the customer/stakeholder
Maintains an awareness of developments in the project management industry
Takes initiative to keep skills up to date
Experience in identifying the communications and relationship needs of stakeholder groups
Experience in translating communications/stakeholder engagement strategies into specific activities and deliverables
Experience in facilitating open communication and discussion between stakeholders, acting as a single point of contact by developing, maintaining, and working to stakeholder engagement strategies and plans
Experience in providing informed feedback to assess and promote understanding. Facilitates business decision-making processes
Experience in capturing and disseminating technical and business information
Preferred
PMP Certification – Preferred
Certified Scrum Master (CSM) Certification
Possess a high level of business acumen; understanding the business need for each project and the ability to make decisions based on what is best for the organization
Demonstrated experience successfully managing multiple projects within agreed to scope, schedule and budget
Proven ability to manage subcontractors from RFP stage through evaluation, selection, contracting, and execution of work plans
Must possess a high degree of comfort with ambiguity
Demonstrated ability to make continuous improvement a priority
Ability to collect qualitative and quantitative data to help drive process improvement
Possess the ability to perform project reviews; assessing project health and identifying problems as well as noteworthy areas; and if asked, confidently turn a troubled project around
Benefits
Company-paid time off
Comprehensive healthcare options
Retirement savings
Company
US Pharmacopeia
US Pharmacopeia (USP) is an independent, scientific nonprofit organization that has focused on building trust in the supply of safe, quality medicines since 1820.
1001-5000 employees
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Chief Executive Officer
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