Project Manager

Summary

ZS's Program Management Expertise Center provides planning, delivery, and governance expertise to a wide range of clients and internal stakeholders. Our global organization is comprised of team-oriented, pragmatic, and results-driven people who thrive on solving challenging problems and driving the implementation of critical solutions. Our people come from diverse backgrounds but share a passion for ensuring successful delivery of planned outcomes for our customers - both external clients as well as internal practice areas and industry vertical.

Benefits

ZS offers a comprehensive total rewards package including health and well-being, financial planning, annual leave, personal growth and professional development. Our robust skills development programs, multiple career progression options and internal mobility paths and collaborative culture empowers you to thrive as an individual and global team member.  We are committed to giving our employees a flexible and connected way of working.  A flexible and connected ZS allows us to combine work from home and on-site presence at clients/ZS offices for the majority of our week. The magic of ZS culture and innovation thrives in both planned and spontaneous face-to-face connections.

Responsibilities

• • Program planning by leading end to end planning and execution across 1 or more workstreams for a large engagement with multiple projects and workstreams;
• • Program execution by leading program delivery for key workstreams across strategic initiatives, drive the program activities to ensure the program generates early traction and maintains forward momentum;
• • Provide leadership to setup a robust PMO framework for effective delivery and execution;
• • Work with other functional leaders to define, prioritize, and develop projects and programs;
• • Continuously seeks areas of opportunities to improve project management practices and add value to teams and conduct periodic meetings with all PMOs and project leads;
• • Partner with senior program leaders and client stakeholders to plan, and lead key initiatives;
• • Manage and document any risk management processes, proactively identify and highlight risks and develop appropriate contingency plans or escalate as needed.

Required Skills

• • Thorough understanding of project management phases, techniques, and tools & reporting;
• • Ability to work in Agile, Waterfall and hybrid methodologies;
• • Strong knowledge of PMI and Agile project management standards and PMI/PMP, Prince2, or Agile certification desired.
• • Strong understanding of projects KPIs and SLAs;
• • Experience managing multiple projects at once and ensuring priority of issues and risks.

Qualifications

• • Graduate/post-graduate in any discipline with 3 to 5 years of experience in Project Management experience;
• • Prior experience with program and PMO activity for large business transformations, or implementation of Digital strategy; experience managing large PMO vertical and client accounts;
• • Any Life Science, Healthcare, Pharma or Consulting experience is a nice to have – Insurance or Finance industry experience also a plus;
• • Experience in large scale transformation programs with multiple stakeholders, complicated data dependencies, intersecting workstreams, and project change management;

Additional Information and Instructions

✅ Candidates must possess work authorization for their intended country of employment. 📝 Online Application Required: Be sure to include a full set of transcripts (official or unofficial) with your application. 🚫 No Agency Calls, Please.

About ZS

ZS is a place where passion changes lives. As a management consulting and technology firm focused on transforming global healthcare and beyond, our most valuable asset is our people. Here you’ll work side-by-side with a powerful collective of thinkers and experts shaping solutions from start to finish. At ZS, we believe that making an impact demands a different approach; and that’s why here your ideas elevate actions, and here you’ll have the freedom to define your own path and pursue cutting-edge work. We partner collaboratively with our clients to develop products that create value and deliver company results across critical areas of their business including portfolio strategy, customer insights, research and development, operational and technology transformation, marketing strategy and many more. If you dare to think differently, join us, and find a path where your passion can change lives.

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