Technology Project Manager

As a Technology Project Manager you will spearhead strategic consultancy efforts, driving organisational change and delivering impactful solutions. This London-based role requires expertise in strategy development and a focus on fostering innovation within the consultancy, strategy, and change department.

Client Details

The hiring organisation is a well-established entity within the life sciences industry, known for its commitment to advancing healthcare solutions through innovative strategies. They focus on impactful outcomes and transformative projects that shape the future of the industry.

Description

• Strategic platform domain leadership: drive development of Enterprise platform domain specific strategy, ensuring alignment with organisations digital, data and technology goals. This includes setting a vision for the platform that supports enterprise stakeholders needs and value priorities.
• Roadmap delivery: lead the development and execution of a multi-year roadmap and architecture to establish and evolve the Enterprise platform capabilities and services. Ensure the platform's capabilities evolve over time to meet changing priorities over time.
• Lead cross-functional teams: including technology, subject matter experts, lead business users, and executive leadership to align Enterprise platform initiatives with organisational goals.
• Team formation: build and lead a "right-sized" platform team. This includes sourcing or hiring permanent and interim team members with the necessary skills and leading them in a matrix environment to deliver platform objectives.
• Technology evaluation: Evaluate, recommend and continually improve solutions and services to meet the needs of core stakeholders
• Customer engagement and UX design: collaborate with a range of stakeholders to understand the needs, problems and opportunities by persona, using agile and UX methods to drive simplification and frictionless customer experience.
• Stakeholder management and business partnering: build strong, trusted relationships with key business stakeholders at senior and every level of the organisation.
• Value realisation: ensure that investments in the enterprise platform domain translate into measurable business value. Track platform business outcomes and communicate these benefits to stakeholders. Ensure that service levels are maintained or exceeded.
• Automation: seek opportunities to automate and integrate processes to simplify user experience, increase productivity and improve quality.
• AI technologies: ensure data is prepared to enable integration of AI, and drive organisations selection, implementation and adoption of emerging AI.
• Compliance oversight: ensure data platform solutions are reliable, secure, and compliant with regulations and policies. ensure the platform adheres to regulatory frameworks such as GDPR, HIPAA, GxP where required.
• Risk management: proactively mitigate operational risk, maintaining robust, resilient and secure technology services that are constantly evolving.
• Outside-in thinking: seek out technology trends that can be brought into the operations team to improve business processes. Study capabilities and use cases for GenAI to transform the digital workplace experience.
• Data Quality: ensure enterprise data is mastered within single systems of record and is accessible for functional reporting, other consuming applications. Close partnership with Enterprise Data Stewards and DPO, and Data Platform lead.
• Continuous Improvement: identify opportunities for continuous enhancement of Enterprise platform solutions' performance, security, resiliency and cost-efficiency and functionality.

Profile

* Knowledge of SAP is essential

• Proven experience leading value-led, modular and integrated enterprise application (or ERP) implementations within similar types of organisation.

* Ability to work iteratively with stakeholders to assess needs, problems and opportunities, seeking to maximise value of technology, and bring a strong customer focus on usability, UX experience and outcomes

* Ability to prepare engaging presentation materials for senior stakeholders to build support for vision, business case and plans

* Ability to lead agile, cross functional matrix teams across Tech, PMO, business colleagues, third parties and others.

* Ability to effectively select third parties and manage third party relationships.

* Ability to drive implementation of structured, design principles-based approach in close partnership with architecture

* Learning agility and versatility, able to 'roll up sleeves' and operate independently within a small team

* High EQ, with ability to navigate complex and competing stakeholder needs, creating clarity within ambiguity

Job Offer

• Opportunities to work on impactful projects within the life sciences industry.
• Permanent position based in London with opportunities for professional growth.
• Hybrid working enivronment - 3 days in office, 2 days at home