Business & Program Management Leader

CK Group
Welwyn Garden City
4 days ago
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CK Group are recruiting for a Business & Program Management Leader, to join a company in the pharmaceutical industry, on a contract basis for 12 months.
Salary:

Rates £650 - £750 LTD/UMB per day (outside IR35) or £419.61 - £484.13 PAYE per day.
Business & Program Management Leader role:

  • Partner with the business accountable and team to drive development of new tools and processes that will enable the organisation to deliver their Vision.
  • Using appropriate Project Management methodologies, as best fits the needs of the project team, scope, plan and execute the project to ensure solutions are adopted and intended value is realized within the agreed timeframe and in an iterative manner.
  • Enable team norms, effective decision making, drive progress, meeting design/facilitation, simplifying processes/work & coaching for effective change leaders.
  • Ensure the wider business is aware of the project and its impact, identifying concerns and opportunities early.


Your Background:

  • You are an experienced Project and Program Leader with over 7 years experience in leading IT and Business solution delivery. Experience within a Pharmaceutical environment is highly preferred.
  • You have a proven track record of delivering technical and business projects in complex and regulated environments to strict timelines, budget and scope.
  • You have demonstrated the ability to successfully define, plan and execute enterprise level technology initiatives aligned with business objectives.
  • Proven experience managing multi disciplinary teams from business, technical and data teams.
  • You have excellent communication skills with the ability to translate technical concepts, activities and deliverables to non technical stakeholders
  • You are skilled at balancing and ensuring technical delivery with stakeholder engagement, collaboration and communication.


Company:

Our client is one of the world's premier innovative biopharmaceutical companies, discovering, developing and providing over 160 different medicines, vaccines and consumer healthcare products to help improve the lives of millions of people in the UK and around the world every year.
Location:

This role is a hybrid position between home and our clients site in Welwyn Garden City.
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It is essential that applicants hold entitlement to work in the UK. Please quote job reference in all correspondence.
Please note:

This role may be subject to a satisfactory basic Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check.
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