Associate Project Manager

Work Requirement

This role will be based out of our Vancouver location and is full time onsite.

Key Responsibilities

• Supports development/maintenance of detailed timelines, tracks key milestones, ensuring alignment of functional team members with overall program strategy
• Supports the project planning process within established governance structure, monitors progress and drives execution
• Schedules recurring meetings, organizes agendas, distributes minutes and follows upon action items
• Departmental subject matter expert for internal systems including but not limited to SharePoint and Smartsheet’s
• Supports the preparation of project budgets with management oversight.
• Analyzes critical path, evaluates potential means to accelerate project pace or mitigate identified risks, and plans contingencies with input from various functions.
• Creates communication plans, maintains open and proactive lines of communication with internal and external stakeholders.
• Manages contractors and vendors by coordinating the review and execution of SOWs, evaluating project schedules, monitoring and reporting on progress, and managing meetings.
• Prepares project dashboards and progress reports, identifying, anticipating, and resolving issues which threaten project timeline and/or budget.
• Serve as a point of contact for tracking and reporting alliance deliverables
• Facilitates collaboration by ensuring team members understand project objectives, specifications, deliverables, timelines and tasks.
  

Education and Experience

• Bachelor’s degree, life sciences preferred, and a minimum of 2 years of drug development related experience required. We will consider an equivalent combination of education and experience.

Skills and Abilities:

• Excellent interpersonal, communication, and organizational skills.
• Enthusiasm for learning and growth; proactively identifies opportunities and takes initiative to resolve issues
• Tendency to meet challenges with a problem-solver mindset
• Demonstrated ability to manage concurrent deliverables and work effectively in a dynamic, fast-paced environment
• Ability to work collaboratively as a member of cross-functional teams and to establish and maintain effective working relationships
• Ability to lead by example and to establish an environment fostering effective and collaborative working relationships at all levels of the organization.
• Ability to successfully prioritize and manage competing demands
• Ability to refine project plan/timelines to meet critical milestones
Proficiency with MS Office, utilization of PM software (Smartsheet or other Gantting software).