Manager, Consulting

Responsibilities

• Lead small and large project teams through discovery, design, build, configuration, and implementation for healthcare and life sciences customers.
• Develop comprehensive project plans aligned with stakeholder objectives.
• Track resource allocation, milestones, budgets, and timelines; take corrective action as needed.
• Identify, manage, escalate, and mitigate project risks and issues.
• Build relationships with customer sponsors and stakeholders to identify future opportunities and develop an industry network.
• Own project management throughout engagements, including discovery and requirements workshops, solution collaboration, execution, and stakeholder communication.
• Manage project operations, scope, methodologies, standards, and deliverables such as status decks, milestone kickoff decks, project plans, burn reports, RAID logs, and build progress trackers.
• Create and revise work plans to address changing needs and requirements.
• Identify staffing needs and assign project team responsibilities.
• Drive change-order processes, including estimates, assumptions, deliverables, and timelines.
• Participate in customer training and implementation initiatives.
• Continuously improve project implementations through reviews, lessons learned, and best practices.

Requirements

• Strong professional experience in project management.
• Life sciences or pharmaceutical industry experience.
• Experience managing software or custom development implementations, ideally in a consulting environment.
• Ability to collaborate across global internal and external teams and influence contributors and stakeholders at all levels.
• Analytical and strategic-thinking skills, with experience managing the complete lifecycle of complex enterprise projects.
• Understanding of project management concepts, data modeling, theories, practices, and methods.
• Experience facilitating meetings, building consensus, and interacting with project sponsors.
• Detail-oriented, with the ability to quickly assimilate and apply new concepts, business models, and technologies.
• Experience with Waterfall and/or Scrum methodologies.

Nice-to-haves

• PMP or Scrum certification.
• Experience with CRM software, preferably Salesforce.
• Salesforce certifications, such as Administrator or Platform App Builder.
• Salesforce or CRM implementation experience in the life sciences and healthcare sectors.

Compensation and Benefits

• Fully remote role with required EST time-zone overlap from 6:30 PM to 2:30 AM IST.