Hybrid Sr Manager, PMO and Project Management - Branchburg NJ at AbbVie

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Job Description

This role requires individual to work onsite 5 days per week; currently remote options are not available 

The Sr. Manager, PMO and Project Management, is accountable for overall governance and execution of the project management office. The Sr. Manager must possess a strong understanding of project management best practice along with strong communication, influencing and stakeholder management skills. This role will manage a team of project managers to drive improvements and consistency in the project management process for the site including standardization, governance and metric tracking. This role must interact and influence at all levels of the organization while working with stakeholders, driving change, support transformation, mitigate risks and resource constraints. Projects range across but not limit to manufacturing, quality, systems, and business processes. Build and manage capacity tool to help manage and forecast resource allocation and negotiate new projects intake.

Supervision

The Sr. Manager, Project Management and PMO will be responsible for the PMO staff at the Branchburg site.

Position breakdown

PMO tool kit — templates, processes and improvements together with the project management team and our stakeholders.

Lead cross-functional teams from project initiation to project closing including managing stakeholders relationship and expectations, milestone tracking, resolving problems and complete activities/tasks to get the desire outcome.

Capacity management — include building the tool, establish the monthly process and capacity forecast to help resource allocation and negotiate intake of future projects. 

Manage and motivate the project management team.

Coach, mentor and train the project management team and anyone else on project management best practice, processes and templates.