Project Management Officer

PMO Business Project Manager - Contract (€450pd)

Contract duration = 12 months, extendable

Contract rate = €450pd

Global Projects in a Highly Regulated industry – Accounting, Finance or Pharma exp essential.

There will be a particular emphasis on the Financial side of Project Management – financial planning, cost control, budgeting and providing finance support and advice to the Project Operations teams in this role.

As an experienced PMO or Project Manager working in the Services Division of this Multinational organisation, you will be providing project management support to Medical Clients, supporting financial planning, tracking and reporting of key activities (progress updates, timelines, budgets and monthly reporting) for assigned Business Units, function or brand within this business area.

You will be expected to provide regular communication to senior stakeholders ensuring alignment of various medical activities projects involving finance stakeholders, procurement, operations and the main business unit owners in a Therapeutic area.

Core Responsibilities

* Key project management support as agreed with Client (such as creating project registers and dashboards, identifying and prioritising high impact projects, meeting facilitation, etc)
* • Define criteria for key projects and support management of priority projects, providing regular status updates to key stakeholders
* • Work closely with Client stakeholders to support planning, tracking and reporting of activities (progress updates, timelines, budgets and monthly reporting) for franchises, business functions or brands
* Support Business Owners in the preparation of annual budgets
* • Monitor progress of project activities
* • Support review of vendor proposal and oversee PO management process
* • Coordinate, review and track approvals of activities;
* • Lead innovation by identifying areas for process or technology improvements and participate in continuous improvement initiatives
* Validate actual spend and provide accurate forecasting of budgets against project plans
* • Project manage post implementation of budget approvals (eg. PO opening, contracts signed).
* • Implement, coordinate and maintain reporting with agreed metrics
* Support large-scale change projects, such as process improvements, financial and other system and platform implementations and management

Experience Required

• 5+ years’ project management experience in a multidisciplinary environment, especially in pharma or Finance / Financial Services or other highly regulated industry

* A background in Accountancy, Audit, Financial Project Management ideally
* Experience as a Senior PMO Analyst, PMO/Project Support Analyst, or Project Manager
* Strong project management skills: especially Budgeting & project financial management, planning, tracking and analytical skills (including use of Excel PowerPoint, Word, etc.)
* Core skills involving Project management, Stakeholder management, Financial Data Analysis & Communications skills
* • Project management certification desirable
* Bachelor’s degree preferably in business management, accounting / accountancy, finance or Science / Life sciences
* Must have worked in a large matrix - international, multiregional / multicultural environment

Contract Rate: €450 per day

Hybrid environment: Dublin HQ Offices. Flexible.

Please note that you MUST have EU/EEA/UK citizenship or hold a current valid work visa for Ireland. NO Sponsorship considered.

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