IT Project Coordinator

About the role

Duration: 10+ Months

Location: Research Triangle Park, NC

About the role

Run the programme and project administration for the defined programme/project. The role entails leading on the coordination of project planning, project monitoring and control, risk management and governance in a consistent manner. Projects must adhere to both principles of transparency across the programmes and enable comparability.

Basic qualifications

Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience demonstrating learning agility.

Minimum experience

• at least two years of project management or project coordination. At least two years participating in or preferably managing the coordination of User Acceptance Testing.
• IT: MS Project, PowerPoint, and Excel.

Preferred qualifications

• Project management qualification (e.g. PMP, Prince 2) or equivalent proven track record of delivery.
• Project management skills and aptitude coupling both hard and soft skills.
• Project experience should ideally include design, planning, governance, phasing and implementation of projects tools and techniques for issues and risk management, decision making and reporting
• Hyperion and SAP financial systems
• Engaging with senior management
• Managing multinational cross-functional workstreams in a complex matrix.
• Aptitude or experience to teach and coach project management to stakeholders.
• Well-developed soft skills such as influencing, leading without authority and problem solving.
• Experence in planning and executing User Acceptance Testing
• IT Business Analysis and Process Partnering
• Pharma

Personal Skills

• Excellent written and oral communication skills
• Willing and able to work at all levels of the organization: across teams and management
• Able to work with minimum supervision (autonomous)
• Teamwork, both in a hierarchical and matrix level
• Analytical spirit
• Perseverant and resilient

Job Purpose and Key Responsibilities

• Realize schedules with experts and project actors
• Ensure project follow-up from start to end: planning & reporting
• Lead, support and facilitate projects within the business unit
• Ensure a monthly reporting of projects
• Contribute actively to the realization of a project portfolio
• Develop and enhance a culture of excellence to do things in a simpler, leaner, faster and robust way
• Anticipates problems and escalate the blocking points to the hierarchy
• Ensure a good communication on the projects with all the actors

Minimum experience

• at least two years of project management or project coordination.
• At least two years participating in or preferably managing the coordination of User Acceptance Testing.
• IT: MS Project, PowerPoint, and Excel.

Preferred qualifications

• Hyperion and SAP financial systems
• Engaging with senior management
• Pharma

Additional Information

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.