Job Description
Overview:
TekWissen is a global workforce management provider headquartered in Ann Arbor, Michigan that offers strategic talent solutions to our clients world-wide. This Client is mission is to discover and deliver innovative medicines and solutions that address complex health issues and enhance people s lives.
Job Title: Senior Program Manager Pharmacy & Commercial Portfolio
Location: Lake County, IL
Duration: 6 Months
Job Type: Temporary Assignment
Work Type:Hybrid
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About the Role
- We are seeking an experienced Program Manager to support a portfolio of pharmacy and commercial projects.
- In this team-oriented role, you will connect related projects into a coordinated program, guide cross-functional teams from intake through delivery, and provide clear, actionable portfolio updates to business and IT leaders.
- The ideal candidate combines strong program and financial management skills with the judgment to work effectively in a complex, matrixed environment.
- You will be expected to take ownership, keep work moving with minimal supervision, and surface risks and decisions early.
- Manage a portfolio of at least four concurrent projects, connecting related work and tracking progress at both project and program levels.
- Provide business and IT leaders with an integrated view of project progress, risks, dependencies, financials, and potential impacts on business processes and system priorities.
- Lead demand intake, assessing whether proposed work meets business-case criteria before engaging business analysts, subject matter experts, and engineers.
- Work with business and technology partners to define business processes, project scope, objectives, requirements, and enabling technology options.
- Develop and maintain portfolio plans, financial forecasts, status reports, governance materials, risk plans, delivery milestones, and outcome measures.
- Partner with business leaders, IT management, and peer managers to assess the cost and impact of proposed changes, clarify priorities, and coordinate work across teams.
- Lead change control discussions and boards, managing scope changes and their impacts across multiple capability areas.
- Run meetings for project teams, peer program managers, stakeholders, and business leads; tailor updates to each audience.
- Document meetings, distribute concise minutes and action items, follow up on commitments, and track progress toward delivery goals.
- Identify and communicate risks promptly, coordinating mitigation plans with the appropriate stakeholders.
- Support successful, timely delivery of work under direct and matrixed leadership.
- Follow applicable corporate and divisional policies and standards, including code of conduct, safety, GxP compliance, data security, and the software development lifecycle.
- Bachelor s degree in management or a related field and at least 10 years of relevant experience; or a graduate degree and at least 8 years of relevant experience.
- At least 8 10 years of experience managing complex programs in a matrixed environment.
- PMP certification required.
- Demonstrated experience with financial, budget, and forecast management.
- Strong program and project management skills, including the ability to manage multiple concurrent initiatives and track dependencies.
- Proven ability to lead cross-functional stakeholder engagement across business and technology teams.
- Excellent communication and organizational skills, including the ability to create concise project- and program-level updates.
- Self-directed approach, with the ability to work independently, require minimal supervision, and drive tasks through to closure.
- Experience in the healthcare or pharmaceutical industry.
- Experience supporting pharmacy, commercial, or other regulated-industry projects.
- A bachelor s degree in a relevant discipline is preferred.
- Candidates without healthcare or pharmaceutical experience should be able to demonstrate strong experience in another domain and the ability to learn and navigate new subject matter.
Numbers & Facts
| Location | Lake County, IL |
| Industry | Computer/IT Services |
| Salary | $80–$85 |
| Company Size | 100 to 499 employees |
| Year Founded | 2009 |
| Website | http://www.tekwissen.com/ |
About Company
WE THE TEKWISSEN PEOPLE
TekWissen offers you a broader portfolio of services, industry-leading solutions, and the meaningful innovations that give you greater flexibility and speed to respond to market dynamics, reduced costs and risk to improve enterprise performance, and increased productivity to enable growth.
To keep pace with global market demands, TekWissen keeps its finger on the pulse of change. Our organized approach to guiding a project from its inception to closure. Managing projects is becoming more and more important as we enter the digital era. To cope with the pace that this transition demands, a method is required to manage projects so they can yield quality work, while incorporating efficient use of time and resources.
Project involves identifying which quality standards are relevant to the project and determining how to satisfy them.
It is important to perform quality planning during the Planning Process and should be done alongside the other project planning processes because changes in the quality will likely require changes in the other planning processes, or the desired product quality may require a detailed risk analysis of an identified problem. It is important to remember that quality should be planned, designed, then built in, not added on after the fact.
Capabilities and accomplishments in one TekWissen business enhance the opportunity for success in the others. Put simply, TekWissen's unique combination of attributes promotes success.Skills
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