Hybrid Project Manager

at iNova Pharmaceuticals

• Job title: Project Manager
• Job type: Contract
• Experience level: Mid level, Senior
• Salary: Not specified
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Location requirements: Hybrid, New Cairo, Egypt

About the role

• Project Manager managing complex projects within the FMCG/Healthcare industry from concept to completion. Leading cross-functional teams while ensuring stakeholder engagement and operational effectiveness.

Responsibilities

• Seamlessly delivers on time in full projects of low to high complexities for new product introduction: new development, in-licensing, geo-expansion
• Champions the stage/gate process, manage budget and risks
• Builds strong relationships with stakeholders at operational and leadership levels – internal and external - for effective escalation and decision-making
• Manages project timelines from creation to completion, providing proactively visibility to project team, and different scenarios to stakeholders
• Becomes an expert in using Planview, the iNova project management tool to capture and maintain cost, benefits, resource, milestones and risks
• Ensures high quality inputs in the system to enable consistent reporting across workstreams and individuals by proactively maintaining the project KPIs
• Contributes to the maturation of project management capabilities through post launch review, enhancements to current processes, data and systems. Identifies, advocates, and implements areas of improvements to increase iNova’s performance

Requirements

• Minimum 5 years of experience in FMCG/ Healthcare industry, working with multiple geographies
• Minimum 5 years of project management experience and 2 years being involved with Marketing, R&D, Procurement, Regulatory, Medical functions
• Experience in launching new product on the marketplace or managing product site transfer, either in R&D, Supply Chain, Manufacturing or through a PMO, in several markets or with several factories/external manufacturers
• Project Management Certification (or proven equivalent experience)
• Highly autonomous, able to seek answers and build a strong network
• Being a role model in iNova values, particularly stronger together, embrace the pace and own it
• High level of adaptability to changes and audience
• Ability to intervene to remove obstacles, be in the details and hands-on and to step back once a clear plan is set
• Skilled at simplifying complexity, identifying critical data, for effective decision-making
• Proficient in Outlook, SharePoint, MS Project, MS Excel, MS Word

Benefits

• Being able to work and have meeting with different time zones