Project Manager

Role & responsibilities

• Engage with customers & drive execution of projects, post sales to ensure deployment of solutions FTR,
• To ensure customer delight & enhance organization equity
• To identify the project's goals, objectives, and scope and create a project plan that outlines the tasks, timelines, and resources required.

Strategic and planning

• Monitoring & managing technology projects and their cost, time and scope.
• Taking ownership of direction, coordination, implementation, execution, control and completion of project.
• Meet budgetary objectives and make adjustments to project constraints based on financial analysis

Functional

Core:

• Responsible for entire project life cycle from PO to project delivery
• Create & manage project plans, schedules, allocate resources and monitor progress using appropriate tools.
• Communicate with stakeholders, manage risks/ issues to ensure that the project stays on track
• Manage changes to project scope, project schedule and project cost using appropriate verification techniques
• Assess the potential Risks of the project and come up with mitigation plan.
• Conduct customer review meetings to update the progress of the project to customer and clearing of any dependency from customer
• Document and implement lessons learnt from project

Internal process

• Conduct Kick-off meeting with Solution Consultant to discuss plan and delivery timelines along with scope clarification
• Initiate the project and conduct Scope of Supply (SOS) meeting.
• Assess current status and milestone progress, Risks & mitigation along with delayed tasks and root cause
• Support cross functional team for activity prioritization.
• Present to stakeholders reports on progress as well as problems and solutions
• Establish and maintain relationship with all stakeholders/ third party vendors
• Tracking and quick closure of the customer reported issues during FAT.
• Ensuring minimum leakage of defects to client

People development

• Develop an attitude of cross-functional team work amongst associates from different functions
• Motivating the cross functional team for achieving commitment to project
• Giving inputs for enhancing skill sets of associates, wherever required

Preferred candidate profile

• Smooth execution of project and FAT - no escalation from customer
• No. of projects completed as per timeline and quality
• Controlling deviations and challenges in projects
• Monitoring project cost budget vs. actual

Internal Interfaces

• NPD / Engineering Teams
• Electronics
• Quality
• Operations
• Service
• Sales

External Interfaces

• Customers
• Vendors

Regulatory knowledge:

1. Understanding of export & domestic regulations for pharmaceutical product traceability

2. Basic understanding of GS1 guidelines

3. Knowledge of secondary packaging processes (Solid oral dosage, liquids, injectables, etc)