Sr. Project Manager, Global Business Operations Excellence

The Sr. Project Manager, Global Business Operations Excellence acts as an expert on Project Management methods and tools to prioritize, advise, or lead cross-functional, global projects that improve the delivery capability and efficiency of Biogen operations. The position requires strong collaboration, communication, leadership, and change management skills as well as experience driving business change projects.

Position Responsibilities

• Work with business partners to proactively identify, prioritize, facilitate, and lead projects which drive continuous improvement
• Engage in strategic discussions and provide recommendations based upon work analysis with quantified opportunities to drive business optimization. Synthesizes results, drives conclusions, makes recommendations to senior management, and implements change.
• Document and present project conclusions and deliverables to business, functions, and management with recommendations. Demonstrate proficiency via effectively presenting complex topics in an easy-to-understand manner and via facilitation of meetings with representatives from all levels of the business
• Create solid business cases and selling messages that articulate the value propositions of a project/program. Successfully advocate and support the change.
• Lead multiple/complex implementations by developing and executing well-structured work plans, facilitate project and sponsor meetings, manage project budget/expenses, use continuous improvement tools/methodologies and Project Management tools/methodologies.
• Holds direct and/or indirect accountability for management of the budget for one or several projects or programs
• Leads, manages, and influences others to deliver projects on-time and within budget to achieve specified goals and objectives.
• Facilitate issue resolution and escalation via coordinating solution development across the project team, steering committee, and business stakeholders
• Analyzes root cause problems and recommends solutions to improve process delivery
• Conduct process mapping, design and conduct process metrics to capture and quantify project findings and process improvements, and conduct process benchmarking. Recommend and implement methods to demonstrate and sustain improvements through metric and control monitoring.
• Ability to manage and inspire a cross-functional, global project team
• Motivate, mentor, and teach others the principles and tools of Project Management with the ability to share examples across end-to-end processes, offer alternatives, and provide constructive feedback to create a culture of continuous improvement throughout Biogen.

The ideal candidate for the Project Manager, Global Business Operations Excellence will have the following experiences:

• 8+ years relevant experience in progressive global business optimization projects
• Full life-cycle Business improvement methodolog

The Sr. Project Manager, Global Business Operations Excellence acts as an expert on Project Management methods and tools to prioritize, advise, or lead cross-functional, global projects that improve the delivery capability and efficiency of Biogen operations. The position requires strong collaboration, communication, leadership, and change management skills as well as experience driving business change projects.