Senior Project Manager

Were looking for a Project Manager to join us on our mission to give all patients access to cell therapies. Reporting to the Programme Manager youll play a pivotal role in supporting the development teams ensuring transparent and consistent delivery internally and externally to customers and partners. The role would suit an innovative experienced and delivery focused individual with the drive and enthusiasm to push forward in a fast paced and challenging environment.

Working closely with technical leads you will be expected to manage the full life cycle of product development projects including:

• Start-up working with engineering to develop a project brief.
• Initiation producing plans for the project schedule resource communication risk and quality.
• Execution choosing the right delivery methodology for the project and supporting management of the team to get things done.
• Monitoring and Control reporting to ensure schedule budgets risk quality scope changes etc. are under control.
• Closure completing the documentation learning the lessons and delivering the outputs and controls to ensure the benefits of a project are realised.

Were looking for a candidate with proven experience applying a range of key competencies essential for successful project delivery. The ideal applicant will demonstrate strong leadership and professionalism with the ability to empower and inspire others to drive projects forward.

They should possess excellent team management skills capable of motivating teams to meet objectives while resolving conflicts effectively. A solid grasp of stakeholder management is vital including the ability to identify and engage stakeholders based on their influence and interests. The role also requires strong planning capabilities including documenting project components and maintaining schedules. Financial management is crucial with the ability to develop budgets and control both forecast and actual costs.

The successful candidate will also excel in quality management ensuring outputs and processes meet stakeholder requirements as well as risk and issue management through the identification assessment and mitigation of project risks and issues. Lastly a sound understanding of governance is required maintaining clear structures of roles responsibilities and accountabilities to support effective project oversight and delivery.

Qualifications :

• You will be educated to degree level (or equivalent) ideally in a STEM subject.
• Proven experience leading a project in a similar field; for example manufacturing automation instrumentation consumer products
• Ideally some experience gained within pharmaceutical biotechnology or cell-therapy fields.
• Outstanding organisational ability with a track record of successfully delivering complex systems on highly accelerated timescales.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills with the ability to build and nurture strong and trusting relationships throughout an organisation and with external stakeholders and customers.
• Ability to assimilate and summarise complex information picking out what is important and prioritising accordingly.
• Competent using a range of IT systems at an advanced level e.g. MS Office and Project Atlassian JIRA and Confluence etc.
• Experience of working within an ISO 9001 Quality Management System or similar is desirable.

Additional Information :

Cellular Origins is part of TTP Group an employee-owned business. It is based on the TTP Campus within purpose-built sustainable offices labs and green surroundings 10 miles south of Cambridge. TTP Group takes a long-term approach to investment and has been at the forefront of bioprocess automation for over 20 years. Our working culture encourages entrepreneurship shared ideas and collaboration while providing you the freedom to do your best work. 

Our employee benefits include: 

• Annual profit-related bonus 
• 25 days holiday 
• Employer pension contribution of 10% of salary 
• Free lunch and all-day refreshments 
• Private medical insurance for employees and dependants 
• Enhanced family friendly leave 
• Life insurance worth 6x salary 
• Electric car leasing scheme 
• Cycle to work scheme 
• Season ticket loan 
• An activities and community fund that supports healthy activities that bring colleagues together; whether its lunchtime squash or football Zumba or our own rock band. Colleagues initiate new clubs and outings whenever they feel theres something missing! 
• Local sports facilities and theatre discounts and memberships. 

Remote Work :

No

Employment Type :

Full-time

Key Skills
Business Development,Project Management Methodology,Project / Program Management,PMBOK,Waterfall,Wastewater,Construction Management,Project Management,Project Management Software,Microsoft Project,Budgeting,Contracts
Experience:years
Vacancy:1