[Hiring] Senior Project Manager @LGC Group

Role Description

This contract role takes end-to-end delivery accountability for delivery of projects that impacts business processes enabled through enterprise technology applications (ERP integrations, customer-facing and internal web platforms, laboratory and manufacturing system deployments, and associated data migration). The role represents the business function and works in close partnership with the IT Technical Delivery Lead, gathering requirements and acceptance criteria on behalf of operations, commercial, and quality stakeholders.

• Take end-to-end delivery accountability for business led projects enabled by IT solutions, including requirements gathering through build, testing, deployment, adoption, and handover into live service.
• Act as the business's representative throughout the delivery lifecycle, translating operational, commercial, and quality needs into system requirements.
• Own and maintain the project plan, budget, risk and issue log, and dependency list, tracking progress against agreed scope, cost, schedule, and quality.
• Deliver system integration activity at project level, including interface specification, master data alignment, data migration, cutover planning, and reconciliation with business process owners.
• Deliver web-based platform and application projects, including requirements definition, user experience and accessibility expectations, content and data ownership, and release planning.
• Plan and run user acceptance testing (UAT), including test scripts, business tester coordination, defect triage, and evidence to support the go or no-go recommendation.
• Identify, manage and liaise with stakeholders impacted by initiatives to ensure alignment with business sponsors and resource allocation.
• Deliver business change and adoption activity for assigned projects, including impact assessment, process updates, training delivery, cutover communications, and post-implementation support.
• Manage technology suppliers and development partners engaged on the project, including scope definition, performance monitoring, change control, and acceptance of deliverables.
• Ensure assigned projects meet the quality management system, computerised system validation, data integrity, and information security requirements.
• Own and deliver concise and action-oriented project communication through regular project updates.
• Resolve day-to-day issues and competing priorities between business functions and IT, escalating promptly where necessary.
• Provide guidance and informal coaching to Project Managers and business project team members.

Qualifications

• Formal qualification in project management at practitioner level, or an equivalent combination of relevant education and applicable work experience.
• Track record of personally delivering complex information technology (IT) system projects to agreed scope, cost, schedule, and quality within a multi-site organisation.
• Demonstrable experience of enterprise resource planning (ERP) implementation or integration work.
• Experience delivering web development projects, including requirements definition and working with development teams.
• Proven ability to represent business interests within technology delivery.
• Experience planning and running user acceptance testing (UAT).
• Experience of business change and adoption activity.
• Experience of managing technology suppliers and development partners.
• Sufficient technical literacy to challenge and interrogate technical solutions.
• Working knowledge of quality management systems.
• Practical, hands-on planning capability.
• Strong stakeholder management at working and site level.

Requirements

• Degree in a scientific, engineering, business, or computing discipline (desired).
• Experience of a named enterprise resource planning (ERP) platform (desired).
• Experience in the diagnostics, genomics, or wider life sciences industry (desired).
• Working knowledge of agile delivery frameworks (desired).
• Formal qualification in business analysis or in a continuous improvement methodology (desired).
• Experience of working across United States and Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) time zones (desired).

Benefits

• Customary salary range: Minimum pay rate: $124,000 USD per annum; Maximum pay rate: $184,000 USD per annum.
• Pay is determined by several job-related factors, including skills, experience, education, and job-related qualifications.
• Work Arrangement: Remote.
• Department: Programme and Project Management.