Job Description
Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Kite, a Gilead company, is a biopharmaceutical company focused on developing innovative cancer immunotherapies. They are seeking a Senior IT Project Manager to organize and facilitate project teams in delivering outcomes according to schedule while managing multiple concurrent project workstreams across cross-functional teams and external stakeholders.
- Responsibilities
- Fulfill Project Management responsibility through full delivery life cycle
- Develop and maintain comprehensive project plans, including timelines, milestones, resource allocations, and cross-team dependencies
- Lead and coordinate phase gate reviews, ensuring all required deliverables, and cross functional inputs are prepared, evaluated, and approved to advance the project through each stage of the governance process
- Provide oversight and co-ordination of project activities across multiple teams (including vendor and delivery partners), ensuring alignment with overall project goals and objectives
- Monitor progress on projects, identify potential risk and issues, and implement appropriate mitigation strategies
- Organize, plan, and facilitate business workshops to bring stakeholders together with different viewpoints for alignment
- Provide input into areas of concern and direction or redirection to enhance achievement of schedules, productivity of goals, budgets, quality, and overall success of the project
- Identify opportunities for process improvement and optimization
- Manage all aspects of project communication and ensure regular communication with all stakeholder groups in a consistent and timely manner
- Communicate regularly with key cross-functional stakeholders, including project sponsors, senior management and vendors across dispersed geographies and time-zones
- Run project performance management and governance ceremonies including steering, status reviews and stand-ups
- Independently develop and maintain requisite project management documentation to a high standard ā in line with specified Kite / Gilead standards
- Collaborate with Corporate Finance to ensure IT compliance with deadlines across the PM community
- Skills
- Senior IT Project Manager with a proven track record of delivering complex, cross-functional programs
- Bachelor's Degree and 8 Years Experience OR Master's Degree and 6 Years Experience
- Proven enterprise level experience enabling high performing dispersed and global teams across multiple locations and vendors
- Advanced proficiency in Project life cycles and approaches (i.e. waterfall, agile, iterative development)
- Proficiency in Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint
- Excellent written, verbal communication and interpersonal skills working at different levels, including senior-level management up to executive level and key stakeholders
- Strong sense of ownership and pride in high performance
- Familiar with Unified Namespace (UNS) concepts and building data taxonomy/naming standards
- Experience deploying GxP projects and system integrations
- Understanding of Medical Affairs business function
- Experience in life-science industry
- PMP certification
- Company Overview
- Management Consulting Group is a staffing company that offers recruiting and managed services. It was founded in 2001, and is headquartered in San Rafael, California, USA, with a workforce of 51-200 employees. Its website is https://www.mcgsf.net.
- Company H1B Sponsorship
- Management Consulting Group has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships, with 1 in 2025. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role.
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