QC IT Project Manager

Capgemini Engineering are looking for a Project Coordinator to work in our Stevenage Office.

Capgemini Engineering has been operating in the Life Sciences industry as a major technological innovator by delivering engineering, IT and consulting services & solutions across the entire healthcare value chain. We offer you an inspiring career opportunity to help our clients supporting the next challenges of innovation & efficiency faced by the next generation of healthcare

With Capgemini Engineering you will be fundamental to our ability to deliver to our customers and clients. Our customer expectations are high; as such we are looking for adaptive and driven candidates to deliver on time to required quality.

Due to the nature of the assignments undertaken you will work in an environment that promotes autonomy and initiative, requiring a flexible can-do attitude. Above all, you will have a desire to progress and deliver success for our customers. You will possess creative problem-solving skills in a team environment and comfortable with communicating clearly and efficiently throughout varying levels of both the customer and Capgemini Engineering businesses.

Drive the Project Management activities (Planning / action log / Issues / Risks / Budget preparation and monitoring) linked to the implementation of a series of next generation Image Analysis systems on the GSK Vx IT network

Other key responsibilities include:

• The listed activities and deliverables are required for UK and also a higher-level alignment/coordination with Belgium,Marburg and RDC Italy
• Day-to-day coordination of the project until completion criteria are met

• Coaching on-the-job of a junior Project Manager, that will be part of the project team
• Oversight of the coordination and administration of the project. It includes planning, organizing, leading and controlling activities, as well as identifying the resource gap/needs.
• Maintain up-to-date a project roadmap (high-level view of key milestones and decision points)

• Develop and manage Risks and Issues of the project
• Manage action log, drive and monitor progress
• Prepare all documents related to the execution of the project
• Maintain and optimize where possible the governance structure to efficiently drive progress and communicate to broad range of stakeholders

Your Profile

• Minimum Bachelor degree in Life Sciences or Computer Science
• At least 2 years of relevant experience in at least one relevant experience as Project/Product Manager and/or Business Analyst in an IT environment
• Ability to manage own time to meet agreed short-term targets
• Ensure coherence between contributions and/or quality of final results

Experience:

Must Have

• At least one relevant experience as Project/Product Manager and/or Business Analyst in an IT environment with collection and formalization of business requirements;
• Proven experience and expertise with business requirements collection and formalization (e.g. storymap, customer journey visualization, wireframing techniques, user stories writing, etc.);
• Willingness to lead workshops and connect to stakeholders;
• Willingness to get your hands dirty to design and execute solution testing scenario, as we are the guardian of the solution quality;
• Ability to understand technical concepts and translate them in a simple and meaningful business-oriented language both orally (workshops, presentation, etc.) and written (user stories, business flows diagrams, etc.);
• Ability to put yourself in the shoes of your stakeholders: this translates into an adaptable communication style, good negotiation skills, a true customer-centric mindset, and a sincere curiosity for your stakeholders' problems and constraints (management, labs, IT partners).
• Always looking to improve and optimize how things are done, both for our customers and for our team and from a high-level and very low-level perspective (e.g. improve how we are transforming to Agile; analyses and optimize how lab operators fill testing plates in a lab, etc.). Abstraction and attention to details skills are therefore necessary.
• Not afraid of documentation activities as we work in a GxP environment;
• Great team player with a "win or lose together" mindset, and ability to work autonomously with little supervision as well.
• Curious, flexible and ready to ascend a very steep yet rewarding learning curve to understand how laboratories work and the processes in place to deliver an IT solution at GSK

Diversity & Inclusion

Capgemini Engineering recognises the benefit that having a diverse workforce brings to our projects. We value applications from suitably qualified and eligible candidates regardless of sex, race, disability, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion or belief, marital status, or pregnancy and maternity. In order to support diversity in our hiring process, your application will be anonymised when shared with hiring managers to be reviewed against the position.