Senior Project Manager in Cheshire, Warrington

Generis, a leader in content and information management systems, specializing in proven solutions for regulated industries is recruiting for a Senior Project Manager to manage complex demanding projects that make a real difference for leading, global, blue-chip customers.

The role of the Senior Project Manager is to proactively lead and coordinate Generis, customer and partner resources to implement contracted customer projects, or major workstreams, to the specified time, cost and quality targets.

• Plan, manage and coordinate end to end project management lifecycle with customer and external vendor partners globally.
• Leadership of projects through whole lifecycle ensuring compliance with Generis and GxP best practice methodologies, being flexible to phased deployment approaches.
• Work collaboratively with team members to plan and implement project and major workstreams (e.g. planning sessions, daily stand ups and retrospectives).
• Manage projects from brief through project planning, creative process, development, testing through to deployment and maintenance.
• Manage scope, communication, roles, risks & project documentation.
• Manage communication with customer stakeholders, as well as global delivery team and third party vendors.
• Utilize AGILE & Waterfall methodologies.
• Run process and change management activities as a natural complement to the project.
• Provide hands-on business analysis support to the project delivery team to create and update project and design documentation.

To fulfill this role, you will have the following:

• Bachelors’ degree or similar qualification with IT/Business experience as core subjects.
• A minimum of 5-10 years practical experience gained working within a commercial organization in a project manager, business analysis or similar role.
• Experience of managing projects within life sciences or other regulated environments such as financial services or local government.
• Experience of project managing the implementation of enterprise SaaS systems, including the ability to create and manage detailed implementation schedules in Microsoft Project.
• Commercial acumen, be able to demonstrate a detailed understanding of commercial business processes.
• Proven experience with business and technical requirements analysis, elicitation, modelling, verification and methodology development. The ability to use and manage ticket based work in Jira is highly desirable.
• Understanding of web tech and back-end tech and to work effectively and cooperatively with development teams.
• Experience overseeing the design, development and implementation of software and hardware solutions, systems or products.
• Experience of computer system validation/GxP validated environments for regulated life sciences projects.
• Strong track record of contributing to projects and achieving results.
• A “customer facing”, service-oriented approach to enable a successful partnership and strong relationships.
• Proven experience remotely managing globally dispersed teams to successfully deliver projects and/or major workstreams.

Good-to-haves:

• Project Management accreditations, such as PRINCE.
• In addition to fluent English, candidates also fluent in German, French, Spanish and/or Japanese.
• Prior experience with Documentum, Veeva, Ennov or other content management systems.
• Ability to travel to customer sites as required. Travel is expected to be less than 4 weeks annually.

Generis is a leader in content and information management systems, specializing in proven solutions for regulated industries. Established in 1997, Generis began life as a consultancy group. Following the development and release in 2003 of the Company’s CARA solution, Generis continued to develop the product and now counts over 600,000 users across industries worldwide, including 8 of the 10 largest Life Science companies.

Our mission is to provide industry-defining implementations that are fast and intuitive to bring our customers an enjoyable and efficient experience. Widely regarded by our customers for our responsiveness, we offer unprecedented care and attention to deliver high performing solutions configured to meet their individual and frequently complex requirements.

At Generis we pride ourselves on employing the best people and giving them opportunities to develop their skills and abilities. As a close-knit family of employees, we work hard to cultivate a diverse and challenging working environment. Our people are entrusted with great personal responsibility, empowering them to be heard, and drive real change with their ideas and ambition. With no mandatory office and flexible working arrangements, we recognize and reward good work and recruit those with positive can-do attitude.

What to expect during the recruitment process: Our recruitment process is about you presenting your skills and being yourself. The process begins with a simple CV review, followed by interviews with our subject or area-specific experts, and management. Not all candidates make it through to the interview stage, and the actual number of interviews may be fewer (this is not necessarily a bad sign). We believe in welcoming new members to our team that can demonstrate:

• Pride and ownership in their knowledge.
• An open, genuine personality.
• Natural enthusiasm and intellect.

What we offer:

• £60,000 to £95,000 starting salary (dependent on experience).
• Discretionary performance-based bonus.
• Pension.
• Private healthcare.
• Full-time remote working, as well as option for office / hybrid working for those within commuting distance of Central London.
• Half day Friday policy.
• Employee Referral Scheme.
• Wellness programme allowance of £1,000 per year (bespoke to you).
• £1,200 per year personal Uber allowance (Uber Taxi).
• Investment in your development and career.