Medical Data Lake Project Manager
- London, (GBR)
- £550 - £650 Per Day
- 12 Months
- Start date: ASAP
- Ref: GSK0JP00104624
- project manager
- project plans
- implementation
- project leadership
- change management
- completion
- risk and issue management
- data analytics
- pharma
- hiv
Medical Data Lake Project Manager
12 Months
London – Hybrid
£650p/d via Umbrella
Overview
ViiV has initiated the Medical Data Lake project to set up a Dev-Ops team to support ViiV Medical Affairs to manage its common data foundation (CDM) and develop & maintain KPIs & Metrics for downstream analytics.
Key Responsibilities
The role will initially facilitate the set up of the Dev-Ops team for the Medical Data Lake and subsequently track and manage progress against comprehensive project plans.
The key responsibilities of this role include:
Project Planning & Management
• Create comprehensive project plans and documentations
• Define implementation requirements
• Coordinate cross functional teams
• Identify and track key milestones against predicted timelines and manage resource allocation (along with the scrum master)
• Identify and manage interdependencies and find development opportunities
• Manage risks, issues, actions and decisions (RAID) log, and partner with project leads to ensure effective risk mitigation, and issue management plans are in place
• Actively identify and risks and issues for escalation to working group and/or SteerCo
• Create communication plan to report to key stakeholders
Benefits Tracking
• Support project teams to define key value metrics (qualitative and quantitative) to track success for the project
• Identify KPIs and metrics for downstream analytics. Report on value delivery progress to project leadership and broader ViiV stakeholders
Agency Oversight
• Where required, provide oversight of external agency deliverables to ensure alignment with overall efforts and budget requirements
• Document any risks and/or issues that arise with agency deliverables to ensure these are mitigated appropriately
Team Leadership & Meeting Management
• Lead Working Group meetings; manage timely and accurate inputs of status updates, decision making, risk and issue management in preparation for these
• Lead SteerCo meetings and ensure priority decisions are escalated appropriately to this forum
• Follow up on meeting actions where required
Required Skills & Capabilities
• Experience in managing complex initiatives in a multinational organisation, from initiation to completion
• Proven project management skills, with the ability to deliver projects on time
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills, bringing the ability to influence stakeholders at all levels (technical teams; agencies; regional teams; senior leadership; senior executive teams)
• Strategic thinking to manage the big picture, allied with an ability to maintain attention to detail to maintain accuracy
• Demonstrated proficiency in problem-solving, with ability to proactively identify root causes and develop effective solutions
• Ability to adapt to change and navigate ambiguity, with a proactive approach to challenges, and flexibility to adapt to evolving priorities and requirements
• Understanding of change management to drive adoption of new technologies and tools
• Demonstrated ability to work cross-culturally and understand the dynamic between Global, Regional and deploying countries (US, EU 5, key International markets)
Preferred
• Experience operating in the Healthcare & Life Sciences industry
• Knowledge of HIV landscape, with experience of operating in ViiV or GSK
• Experience of Dev Ops and Data Analytics
• Working understanding of digital technologies and tools relevant to the Pharma industry
