Project Manager, Product Development
Location: Marlborough, MA
General Position Summary:
Physicians Interactive, a division of Skyscape.com, Inc., is the leading resource for healthcare information, medication samples and mobile decision support tools to medical professional everywhere.
A Project Manager for Product Development at Physicians Interactive serves as the project owner and is ultimately responsible for the successful development, implementation and delivery of each product used by internal and external clients of Physicians Interactive. The successful Project Manager will manage all aspects of product work package including but not limited to requirement gathering, developing, managing, reporting, and documenting on the work package scope, schedule (inclusive of design, development, Pharma Medical, Legal, and Regulatory submission, and testing requirements), budget (hardware and manpower resources), and execution plan through delivery of the product. Also supports overall product line management. This role will combine an intense will to succeed with the ability to juggle multiple responsibilities under tight deadlines, the ability to work both independently and as part of a team, and with sharp attention to detail. A background in project management is a must. Technology or agency experience is preferred.
- Essential Job Functions:
- Gathers requirements for product deliverables from many diverse groups to ensure that the products delivered are executable for clients.
- Coordinates and communicates product delivery, schedule, scope, and cost requirements to the key support functions to meet scheduled shipments in a quality and cost effective manner.
- Consolidates and analyzes information from many groups the requirements to devel the overall project plan in order to proactively identify specific issues and resolve them to maintain product delivery in a timely manner.
- Makes effective decisions based on appropriately balancing cost, schedule and quality.
- Conducts and facilitates joint-application-development meetings and/or participates in Schedule Reviews and with main suppliers as appropriate to ensure that schedule requirements are being met.
- Follows PMO established processes and prepares reports for the Project Manager including Client Reports
- Analyzes the project schedule, monitors progress and highlights potential cost/schedule variances.
Qualifications:
To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
- Education and Experience:
- BA or BS in business administration, procurement, finance, operations, engineering or related area.
- Must have an understanding of Project Management processes. Thorough knowledge of organizational structure and inter-relationships between functions.
- Five to seven years experience in marketing, scheduling, materials, engineering, projects, financial analysis or equivalent leadership role with exposure to the project management process
- Technical exposure to SDLC and Agile development methods with a good understanding of the development practices, database environment, and networking preferred.
- Must demonstrate ability to independently consolidate and analyze information from various sources to develop effective overall project schedules, budgets, and execution plans
- Must demonstrate negotiation, leadership, communication and interpersonal skills in order to interact with customers, suppliers, and co-workers in a highly matrix environment.
- Must demonstrate effective report writing and presentation skills and strong organization skills and project/product planning ability.
- Solid understanding of internal and external economic factors such as costs, margins, and profit impact of decisions affecting the division’s business.
- PC skills with proficiency in spreadsheet, word processing, relational database, project management software
- Ability to handle multiple tasks and changing priorities in a fast paced environment.
- Solid understanding of the design, function, and application of the products.
- PMP certification preferred and Progress towards PMP
Language Ability:
Ability to read, analyze, and interpret common scientific and technical journals. Demonstrated ability to communicate technical issues to a wide range of audiences. Excellent communication, organization and documentation skills (MS Office)
Math Ability:
Ability to add, subtract, multiply and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals. Ability to compute rate, ratio and percent and to draw and interpret bar graphs. Ability to calculate figures and amounts such as discounts, interest, commissions, proportions, percentages, and margins. Ability to create and manage budgets. Ability to read various statistics.
Reasoning Ability:
Ability to anticipate delays or obstacles, collect data, establish facts, draw valid conclusions and propose solutions. Strong ability to develop and implement processes and procedures; tenacious problem solver
Technical Skills:
1. Demonstrates technical understanding of technical issues.
2. Understands job responsibilities of others and functions appropriately.
3. Strong standard Microsoft Office productivity suite application experience is required: Word, PowerPoint, Excel, Visio, and Project
4. Strong exposure to Use Case and UML modeling
Supervisory Responsibilities:
Varies. May be required to provide supervision to others on the team.
