Associate Project Portfolio Manager
About The Position
The Associate Project Portfolio Manager position plays a critical role in the delivery of Capital Projects across the Fujifilm Life Sciences Biotechnologies’ Holly Springs location. This role is heavily involved as production areas ramp up and during operations. This role involves global collaboration with our partner site in Denmark, and Project Managers (PMs) while ensuring cross-functional alignment on upcoming projects for execution across the site. The Associate Project Portfolio Manager assists with managing a portfolio of projects that align with the company’s values and goals. This role assists in all aspects of project tracking for CAPEX projects in the $20K-$20M USD range; assists with the development of schedules, work plans, forecast, budget management and A&E/CM planning while minimizing risk and managing expectations. While the CAPEX organization continues to scale-up to meet demand, this role encompasses aspects of project management duties and partners intimately with the PMs within the Capital Projects group to understand needs and progress for each project. This role performs field walks to determine scopes for new projects, along with initial project management of projects as required by management. This role assists with setting up the governance strategy for projects to streamline project and budget approvals along with providing support to PMs for the lifecycle of applicable projects. Additionally, this role ensures a strong understanding of workload across the Capital Projects group to level load projects per PMs and associated portfolio team.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in project management, business management, or other related field with 5 years of capital project execution, portfolio management, or applicable industry experience; o
- Master’s degree in business management or other related field with 3 years of capital project execution, portfolio management, or applicable industry experience
- Experience working in a CGMP manufacturing facility
Nice To Haves
- Master’s degree in business administration
- Small to large scale capital project experience
- Prior experience leading capital or construction projects
Responsibilities
- Oversees a diversified portfolio spanning Good Manufacturing Practice (GMP) projects in development, clinical and commercial manufacturing and support areas, lab renovations and buildouts, building and facility infrastructure improvements and additions
- Develops and maintains the Capital Projects organization portfolio including executing plans, metrics and stages/gates
- Assists with managing a CAPEX portfolio expense budget of $5 - $20M USD annually
- Performs field walks to determine project scopes and provide initial input on scheduling, budgeting, and A&E and CM for projects
- Facilitates project kick off meetings, development of project teams, and clear definition of team roles and responsibilities
- Provides project status reports, updates, and concerning matters of significant to required stakeholders
- Represents Capital Projects as the prime internal and external point of contact on all projects
- Prepares and submits projects for Gate Process and review/approve steps at site and global levels
- Assists briefings for senior management and key external representatives
- Reviews and consolidates project progress (including spending) with PMs on a regular basis, identifies opportunities for improvement, and provides recommendations for corrective actions
- Tracks all projects within budget, schedule, and quality constraints cross-functionally at the site
- Identifies and tracks portfolio initiatives and conducts a GAP analysis
- Performs other duties, as assigned
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
