About Perceptive
Our mission is to shape the future of clinical research. With decades of experience and the brightest minds in the industry, we help the global biopharmaceutical industry bring new, advanced medical treatments to market, faster.
We seek to change the world, and with the support of our teams across the globe, we flourish together. At Perceptive, we are one team. We learn, grow and win together.
Are you ready to help change the world?
Apart from job satisfaction, we can offer you:
HEALTH:
- Medical, Dental and Vision benefits for you and your family, including Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA) and Health Savings Accounts (HSAs)
YOURSELF:
- Paid time off policy including holidays and sick time
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- Internal growth and development programs & trainings
WEALTH:
401(k) program, life & accident insurance and disability insurance
About the role
Key Accountabilities:
Project management
- Defines, documents and carries out small projects or sub-projects (typically with limited budget, interdependency with other projects, and no significant strategic impact),
- Identifies, assesses and manages risks to the success of the project.
- Applies appropriate project management methods and tools whether predictive (plan-driven) approaches or adaptive (iterative/agile) approaches.
- Agrees project approach with stakeholders, and prepares realistic plans (including quality, risk and communications plans) and tracks activities against the project schedule, managing stakeholder involvement as appropriate.
- Monitors costs, timescales and resources used, and takes action where these deviate from agreed tolerances.
- Ensures that own projects are formally closed and, where appropriate, subsequently reviewed, and that lessons learned are recorded.
Release & deployment
- Uses the tools and techniques for specific areas of release and deployment activities.
- Administers the recording of activities, logging of results and documents technical activity undertaken.
- May carry out early life support activities such as providing support advice to initial users.
Change management
- Assesses, analyses, develops, documents and implements changes based on requests for change.
Business risk
- Investigates and reports on hazards and potential risk events within a specific function or business area.
Financial management
- Monitors and maintains all required financial records for compliance and audit to all agreed requirements.
- Assists all other areas of IT with their financial tasks, especially in the areas of identification of process, service, project and component costs and the calculation and subsequent reduction of all IT service, project, component and process failures.
- Contributes to financial planning and budgeting.
- Collates required financial data and reports for analysis and to facilitate decision making
Relationship management
- Implements stakeholder engagement/communications plan.
- Deals with problems and issues, managing resolutions, corrective actions, lessons learned and the collection and dissemination of relevant information.
- Collects and uses feedback from customers and stakeholders to help measure effectiveness of stakeholder management.
- Helps develop and enhance customer and stakeholder relationships.
Other
- Carryout any other reasonable duties as requested.
Skills:
- Excellent interpersonal, verbal and written communication skills
- A flexible attitude with respect to work assignments and new learning
- Ability to manage multiple and varied tasks with enthusiasm and prioritize workload with attention to detail
- Ability to effectively delegate work to team members
- Must have the ability to work methodically in a fast-paced, time-sensitive environment
- Demonstratable ability to apply critical thinking to problems and tasks
- Builds and maintains an in-depth knowledge of testing and validation within the life sciences industry and how they affect customers adopting our products
- Ability to define and implement appropriate test strategies
- Ability to identify and implement process improvements
- Proactively participates in skills improvement training and encourages their teams to participate
- Ability to identify the appropriate leadership style to manage the individuals in their team
- Maintains an up-to-date awareness of trends, tools, technology, techniques and processes that affect testing and technology within the Life sciences domain
- A self-starter and able to work under own initiative
- Proven ability of using Microsoft Office products (including Word, Excel & PowerPoint
Knowledge and Experience:
- Experience using tools to communicate progress to Stakeholders
- Understanding of Agile methodologies (preferably Scrum), UML, Object Orientated, Data
- Experience of working in and knowledge of the life sciences sector
- Experience in the same or very similar role
Education:
- Bachelor's Degree in a technical discipline (Maths, Science, Engineering, Computing, etc.) or a related study, or equivalent project-related experience
- English: Fluent
Come as you are.
We're proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. We do not discriminate based upon race, religion, colour, national origin, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, or other applicable legally protected characteristics.