Sr. Project Manager- Healthcare or Pharma Philadelphia, PA Our client, a fortune 500 healthcare company located in Essington, PA (close to the Philadelphia airport) is in need of a multiple Sr. Project Managers to manage a large scale project that is in its beginning stages . This is someone who has strong PM skills in the Healthcare or Pharma Industry Responsibilities include: Leader skilled and responsible for partnering with the project owner/sponsor and all stakeholders to create and implement appropriate and cost efficient solutions based on business objectives. * Acts as project manager, with leadership responsibilities for a matrixed team on medium to large sized projects. Manages results as outlined in the project*s triple constraints of budget, schedule and scope (quality/performance.) * Builds strong relationships with business and technology leaders. Understands business area opportunities and challenges, process or system impacts to all related business or systems areas when implementing recommended solution to obtain business objectives. * Initiates and ensures project management, change management procedures and supporting tools are used in executing all projects as appropriate. * Provides ongoing status updates on project progress, risks, change management and issue resolution. Leads issue identification, tracking, escalation and resolution documentation. Monitors risk events before becoming issues and potential roadblocks. * Manages deliverable estimation process, resource allocation and utilization efficiently and negotiates resource conflicts with other project managers or resources managers as appropriate. Escalates to Director, PMO as necessary. * Communicates issues, impact, and risk mitigation strategies in business terminology that can be communicated to and understood by non-technical partners such as the steering committee. * Creates and maintains project plans, and reviews them with the appropriate IT and business partners and steering committees. This includes tracking plans against agreed upon resource levels, timelines and budgets. Qualifications: * 5-8 years of project management experience guiding medium to large sized (distributed application) projects to implementation. * Four-year degree in Business Administration, Technology Management, related field or equivalent proven project management experience and success. * Experience managing medium to large sized project teams operating within a matrix organization. * Healthcare or Pharma Systems experience a MUST.