P&C (HR) Senior Project Manager

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The Position

Relocation benefits are not available for this job posting.

The Opportunity:

As Senior P&C Project Manager & Agile Coach, you are part of the PSS organization and Customer Experience Area of Practice and  responsible for People & Culture (HR) projects globally or regionally. You take projects from original concept through completion, create and maintain detailed work plans, resource plans and budget. You have the end to end responsibility for project execution using the most suitable methodology, you track project tasks, identify and handle risks and issues, maintain all collaborator relationships, ensure adherence to quality standards and review project deliverables to ensure compliance with current business strategies, relevant standards and legal constraints.

The Opportunity:

• You lead the project team of local and remote team members to successfully deliver business value, provide methodological guidance to the project team, provide coaching/mentoring.

• Delivering the end to end project meeting agreed quality and encouraged business benefits as defined in project baseline and selecting the most suitable methodology which could vary from traditional waterfall to agile practices i.e. scrum, SAFE, design thinking, etc.

• Setting up a robust project governance structure, defining project scope and key objectives in collaboration with project sponsor, steering committee or Product Owner and identifying all relevant project collaborators, proactively managing relationships and ensuring customer view is reflected in the execution of the project

• Preparing and implementing effective communication, change management and training plans for all levels of stakeholders including senior management and creating baseline project schedules and tracking the completion of project deliverables, tasks, activities and milestones

• Actively and effectively handling project spending, resources, risks, assumptions, issues and dependencies (RAID) by carefully assessing potential impacts in collaboration with project teams and dependencies and proposing appropriate mitigation actions and risk acceptance.

• As an Agile Coach coaching/mentoring project teams or teams in the organization through their agile journey to establish and strengthen the agile mindset and put agile methodologies in practice and leading project team by example in line with Roche Leadership commitments, People Practices and policies

• Coaching and providing training to the project team on tools, techniques, and systems used to control and complete projects

Who you are:

• Bachelor’s Degree in focus business area such as Human Resources, Project Management or equivalent experience

• 5–7 years of project management experience in a global environment; experience in Human Resources preferred.

• Strong cross-cultural communications, influence, leadership, conflict management and negotiation, and project management skills and tools know how

• Provide coaching and guidance to more junior team members

• Responsible for managing projects with a high degree of complexity and scope as well as large budget and business impact.  

• Experience managing complex stakeholder groups including senior leaders.  

• Expected to be comfortable working with a higher level of ambiguity and autonomy in work assignments.

• Experienced and efficient handling of standard IT-applications, preferably Google suite

• Fluent in English required, additional languages a plus, based on region (i.e. German, French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Chinese)

• PMI certification 

• Change Management certification

• SCRUM certification (a mandatory and exclusive requirement)

• Design thinking certification

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Who we are

A healthier future drives us to innovate. Together, more than 100’000 employees across the globe are dedicated to advance science, ensuring everyone has access to healthcare today and for generations to come. Our efforts result in more than 26 million people treated with our medicines and over 30 billion tests conducted using our Diagnostics products. We empower each other to explore new possibilities, foster creativity, and keep our ambitions high, so we can deliver life-changing healthcare solutions that make a global impact.

Let’s build a healthier future, together.

The Roche Services & Solutions as well as People Support Solutions organisations located in San Jose provide end-to-end business solutions for Finance, Procurement, IT, Communications, People & Culture (Human Resources) and beyond to our Roche colleagues across the Americas region. Today Roche employs altogether around 800 employees in Costa Rica.