Job Title:  Project Manager – (JP10159)
Location: Thousand Oaks, CA. 91320
Employment Type:  Contract
Business Unit: Final Product Technologies – Commercial Advancement
Duration: 10 months (with likely extensions)
Notes:  Onsite in Thousand Oaks, CA.
Posting Date:  04/27/2022

3 Key Consulting is hiring a Project Manager for a consulting engagement with our direct client, a leading global biopharmaceutical company.

Job Description:

• Work cross-functionally to collect, prioritize, and maintain business needs from partners
• Develop and maintain metrics and dashboards to communicate status
• Follow client’s governance processes, procedures, specifications, design controls, and
• applicable compliance standards and guidance documents
• Assist in driving decisions by using the Decision Making Framework (D- Decision maker, Advice Giver, I- Informed) develop project schedules, project coordination and status reporting
• Track key project milestones, implement and manage changes to meet the project outputs
• Ensure participation in functional and cross-functional management reviews
• Provide meeting facilitation, including development of meeting agenda and minutes
• Develop, evaluate, and manage business case and cost/benefit analysis
• Develop and use project plans and schedules to measure and report progress
• Communicate proactively with stakeholders and sponsors regarding project progress, issues, and plans for resolution
• Develop and share lessons learned and best practices
• Utilize project management processes, software and methodologies to ensure projects are delivered on time, within budget, adhere to high quality standards

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Business Management or Life Science with 3 years of product development experience in the medical device or pharma industry.
• Experience managing and influencing in a matrix organization
• Ability to tactfully and effectively negotiate and influence at various levels of organization
• Technical background with understanding of medical device / pharmaceutical manufacture and commercialization
• Project Management Professional (PMP) Certification
• Strong working knowledge of project management tools and collaboration practices including MS project, MS Teams

Why is the Position Open?
Supplement additional workload on team.

Top Must-Have Skill Sets:

• Medical Device / ISO13485
• Project Management & Budget experience
• Experience in working in an international environment, ability to liaise/communicate effectively with cross-functional teams.

Day to Day Responsibilities:

• Apply project management best practices in the development, initiation, planning, execution, control & closing of projects.
• Deliver project goals on budget and on schedule.
• Lead cross-functional project teams to deliver results and attain project goals/targets.
• Develop, evaluate, and manage the business case and cost/benefit analysis.
• Develop processes and procedures related to distribution and reverse logistics
• Develop plans to support organizational change management (including training and communications).
• Communicate proactively with stakeholders and sponsors regarding project progress, issues, and plans for resolution.

Employee Value Proposition:

• Work cross functional teams
• Ability to work with different stake holds
• High visibility role and able to connect with many teams/managers.

Red Flags:

• No Supply Chain Experience
• No Project Management & Project Budget Experience
• Lack of communication Skills
• Lack of experience working with cross functional teams and different cultural backgrounds

Interview process:
Phone screening followed by in-person interview.


We invite qualified candidates to send your resume to resumes@3keyconsulting.com.  If you decide that you’re not interested in pursuing this particular position, please feel free to take a look at the other positions on our website www.3keyconsulting.com/careers. You are also welcome to share this opportunity with anyone you think might be interested in applying for this role.