Overview
Placement Type:
Temporary
Salary (USD):
$50-58/hr
Start Date:
This role is hybrid and you must be able to work at least 2 times on-site in Bridgewater, NJ
*We are looking for a Project Manger with a background in E-Commerce. Experience in Healthcare/Pharma is a bonus! This person will be the right hand to our client who is the Global CX Program Lead. Need to be a self start, go-getter!*
Aquent Studios is looking for a Consumer Experience (CX) Sr. Project Mangaer to join our growing team with a global healthcare company that develops, discovers, and delivers medicines and vaccines. For this role, we are looking for a detail-oriented self-starter who is skilled and experienced in collaborating with product teams to deliver seamless execution and creative excellence within a fast-paced, agile based environment. S/he is responsible and accountable for the efficient, effective scoping, estimating and management of all consumer experience team deliverables including research, strategy, design and prototyping for complex programs within our team
S/he leads overall CX program execution to drive cross-team communication and proactively removes obstacles or blockers that may get in the way of delivery. This role focuses on project planning, execution, resource management/allocations, budget management, change management and being the central hub to drive the CX program team forward. Additionally, the CX Operations Lead is focused on operational processes including executing/managing external vendor agreements, team templates, asset organization and iterative recommendation/implementation changes to team methods and frameworks.
Responsibilities
- Effectively summarize and communicate project status to a wide variety of stakeholders. Disseminate detailed information effectively and efficiently.
- Ensure that dependent business unit schedules are known and identified in advance to all participants (who needs to launch what when and what is required for that effort).
- Facilitate the definition of program scope, estimates and deliverables.
- Strong technical, process analysis, documentation and mapping skills.
- Proven problem solver with expert knowledge of CX and Design workflow best practices
- Unflappable, with the ability to bring a sense of calm assurance to high-energy interactions
- Excellent interpersonal, leadership, listening, and communication skills: Ability to negotiate a complex organizational structure and drive consensus across stakeholders.
- Ability to construct workable solutions when presented with multiple and, often times, conflicting points of view
- Experience with agile development and tactical skills such as spreadsheet, word processing, presentation, and electronic workflow software, a must
- Anticipate issues and risks associated with project implementation and work with functional management to develop strategies to resolve issues and mitigate risks.
- Manage multiple projects, tasks, priorities, and internal expectations.
- Implement and maintain a collaborative team environment involving different functional areas.
- Work in concert with functional teams, identify and work to implement necessary process adaptations.
- Work with technical project managers to ensure that technical schedules for the program are integrated to the degree that dependencies are identified and resolved in advance.
- Proficiency in project management software, such as MS Project and MS Office
- Participate in driving and documenting process standards and best practice of creative project planning and scheduling
- Lead process improvements and creative tool implementation.
- Develop, implement, and shepherd continuous improvements and process opportunities
- Lead detailed project planning, budgeting, and cross-team capacity planning in collaboration with cross-functional groups
- Orchestrate cross-teams to deliver high quality, on-time design deliverables, accounting for on-the-fly program needs and changes as they occur.
Key Qualifications
- Minimum BA/BS in a Project Management, Business Management, Computer Science, or Logistics; Master’s degree in relevant field a plus
- 10+ years of hands-on studio and traffic management is a must
- Broad experience working directly in a high-volume, fast-paced, constantly changing studio/in-house creative environment
- Superior organizational skills with the ability to multi-task and manage time
- 10+ years of project/process management, operations or strategy analyst experience.
- Experience managing complex projects through all phases of the project lifecycle to a successful conclusion (on time, on budget, benefits delivered) in a large scale, complex global environment
- Experience in Lean, iterative design process and Agile development process
- Must be a pragmatic and objective communicator who can present project status and creative and design operational efficiency to all levels of the company
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills, especially as they relate to presenting, articulating and defending research and design decisions
- Agency experience is a plus
- Familiarity with pharma/health technology is a plus.
- PMP Certification a plus.
- Process Management and/or certification a plus.
Desired traits
- Agility, Decisiveness, Resilience, Transparent Agility, Decisiveness, Resilience, Transparent communications and Openness
- Strong attention to detail, especially in planning and scheduling across different functional teams and following through with successful execution.
- You bring the ability and interest to help lead cultural shifts in the organization including Digital transformation and openness