Senior Project Manager

Stratt
City of London
6 months ago
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The Company

Stratt is a consultancy firm specialising in sustainably responsible, enterprise digital transformation. We partner with executive teams from some of the world’s most recognisable brands to design, build and manage transformative enterprise capabilities.


We believe in healthier business for people and our planet. We are ranked by EcoVardis in the Top 7% of the world’s most sustainable business and aspire for B-Corp accreditation later this year.


After continued success, we plan to expand our delivery operations to support our growth.


The Role

We are seeking commercially minded and ambitious individual to join our life sciences delivery operations practice.


As a digital transformation project manager, you will be instrumental in shaping the international business of our clients in the life sciences sector. Your role is to support commercial biotech and pharmaceutical executives through the delivery of market analysis, commercial strategies, business design and new technology implementation to deliver rapid commercial outcomes for their international teams.


This role offers accelerated career growth for ambitious individuals and presents a unique opportunity to join an ethical and profitable scale-up with ambitious plans for growth.


Responsibilities

  • Orchestrate the project lifecycle for key business activities that includes market research, marketing and sales operations, client service delivery plus various corporate activities.
  • Support client portfolio governance that includes executive communications, account strategies and pipelines, operational standards and financial analysis
  • Manage client service delivery in partnership with business consultancy teams to ensure projects advance on time, budget and to the contractual specification
  • Actively forecast and monitor project dependencies and risks, authoring recommendations to reduce uncertainty, risk, delay, error and cost
  • Author and maintain the accuracy of project management documentation to include project charter, plans, register, standards, risk, status and meeting minutes documents
  • Manage quality assurance to ensure quality standards, compliance and approval governance is met for the entire project workflow.
  • Track and manage project finances to ensure resource capacity and project costs are consistent with project specifications and demand
  • Lead account and project onboard/offboard governance to ensure complete transparency and knowledge transfer between service teams and providers
  • Actively manage communication and collaboration governance to ensure project stakeholders interact efficiently and effectively throughout service delivery


Candidate Profile

  • BSc/MA in Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics (STEM) field
  • 8 - 12 Years project management experience, with an interest in professional services
  • Active interest in the life sciences industry, with a focus on Commercialisation
  • An entrepreneurial and data-driven mindset, able to critically examine business challenges
  • A well organised individual able to uphold professional quality standards independently
  • A problem-solver, with high emotional intelligence and leadership qualities
  • Someone seeking the freedoms and opportunities to lead in a scale-up environment
  • Someone seeking to make a positive impact on people and the planet
  • Experience of MS Project, Trello or Jira technologies required
  • Experience of SAFe, Prince2, Agile or Lean Six Sigma methodologies required


Compensation & Benefits

  • 30 days holiday plus bank holidays
  • Competitive salary and pension based upon experience
  • Annual personal plus company performance bonuses
  • Personal development allowance that can cater to your learning preferences
  • Accredited B-Corp offices, plus hybrid and flexible working offered as standard
  • Onsite fitness studio with various classes that include Yoga, Pilates, HIIT etc.
  • Tuesday afternoon tea and cakes, monthly breakfast club plus separate networking drinks
  • Subsidised specialty coffee plus daily healthy lunch options onsite
  • Central London location, with large open air rooftop terrace overlooking the skyline
  • Various summer and winter socials, parties and calendar events.


We are an Equal Opportunity Employer, and our people are everything to our business. We encourage each team member to be fearlessly human and we welcome their entire person.


We proudly base our employment, promotion and evaluation decisions solely on qualifications, merit and business need.


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