Overview: Tekwissen group, is a workforce management provider throughout the USA and many other countries in the world. This client is a German multinational Pharmaceutical and biotechnology company and one of the largest pharmaceutical companies in the world, headquartered in Leverkusen, and areas of business include pharmaceuticals; consumer healthcare products, agricultural chemicals, seeds and biotechnology products.

Job Title: Product Manager (Entry) Location: Creve Coeur, MO 63167 Duration: 6 Months Job Type: Contract Work Type: Remote Description:

• The Crop Science Information and Data Assets team is looking for a project manager to be part of our Data Governance & Stewardship organization.
• The candidate will manage and provide oversight of dependencies across a number of very complex efforts that span multiple functions across Client.
• The ideal candidate should have experience working in customer-facing roles and understand the commercial and supply chain operations of a large corporation.
• The project manager will need to coordinate with other project and program managers to understand dependencies and ensure they are tightly managed.

Major Responsibilities:

• Provide project management for assigned projects
• Will oversee cross-dependencies of very complex projects that may span multiple functions.
• Facilitate initiation, scoping, planning and execution
• Build and/or maintain project execution plan/charter, including approach, scope, tasks, duration, work effort, dependencies, budget, planning assumptions, risk profile, team structuring, staffing, resource allocation, and deliverable definitions
• Maintain and abide by project governance
• Facilitate meetings, capture key action items and context of meetings. Maintain paper trail of decision that impact projects.
• Anticipate and resolve issues and risks
• Escalate unresolved issues to the appropriate program and steering committee leadership
• Adhere to the project’s communication plan and ensure compliance with all reporting requirements including communication of project status to all project stakeholders including steering committees and executives
• Measure project progress against agreed upon objectives and success criteria
• Perform financial oversight and analysis
• Ensure adherence to established project management standards and tools
• Coach, mentor and manage project team members as needed

Required Experience and Skills:

• Bachelor’s degree
• 3 or more years of IT or business experience
• Experience in Agile development
• 2 or more years of experience managing a variety of full lifecycle application development/integration projects including ERP, Software as a Service, Web, and Information Security projects
• Proven leadership and influence skills including the ability to influence when there is no direct reporting relationship
• Experience leading large applications development/integration projects or programs across multiple countries/functions
• Experience in managing medium to large sized projects across multiple disciplines and/or teams
• Knowledge or understanding of software development lifecycle principles and methodologies
• Ability to build networks and relationships at all levels of the organization
• Strong written and verbal communication skills and presentation skills
• Superior negotiation skills
• Strong team orientation, collaboration skills, and interpersonal skill
• Strong results orientation
• Expertise in defining and improving processes
• Ability to make difficult decisions and to involve others sufficiently in the decision-making process

Desired skills/education/experience/attributes (ideal candidate):

• Project Management certification

TekWissen Group is an equal opportunity employer supporting workforce diversity.