Associate Program Director, OED Sustainability

Open to candidates in the Northeast/Southeast/Mid-Atlantic

Our Operational Excellence and Delivery (OED) Office is a newly formed business until at the corporate level that incorporates a strategic and consistent approach to Portfolio Management, Center of Excellence, Delivery and Execution, and Sustainability and Adoption of Parexel’s strategic initiatives.

The primary role of the Associate Program Director is to lead and facilitate the planning and execution of OED Office Sustainability strategic initiative activities.  The Associate Program Director proactively collaborates with Strategic Initiative teams and others involved in the delivery of the initiatives (including Strategi Initiative Leads and Program Directors, subject matter experts, Parexel functions, external consultants and vendors), and management stakeholders.

General areas of responsibility include: contribution to business case development; creation and updating project plans/work plans, milestone planning and identification/management of critical path; input on resource planning; ongoing liaison and partnering with cross-functional teams; dependency and risk/issue identification and tracking with appropriate escalation; ensuring that Sustainability planning and execution are progressing according; ensuring timely completion of actions; production of key progress reports; tracking and support assimilation of savings/benefit realization and KPI data; support the planning and coordination of change management, training, process and system communications and other deployment activities; preparation and presentation of materials for internal meetings; management of communication between internal stakeholders.

Experience

• Excellent program/project management and control skills.

• Advanced problem-solving skills and ability to summarize complex situations into key points.

• Strong influencing skills and ability to engage and lead teams.

• Highly motivated, self-starting, with strong results orientation.

• Strong verbal & written communication, interpersonal, and negotiation skills (mainly internally and often at higher levels).

• Advanced knowledge of the Microsoft Office software packages such as Teams, Excel, MS Project, Visio, PowerPoint, SharePoint.

• Demonstrated strong organizational skills and ability to take structured approach to varied work assignments.

• Strong team player who is dedicated to making cross-functional, culturally diverse and geographically distributed teams successful.

• Strong meeting facilitation and presentation skills.

• Aptitude to interface with all levels of staff, including top management.

• Proven relevant experience with managing large, complex programs in healthcare, consultancy, or contract research organization.

• Familiarity with project management methodology ideally in combination with a background in a functional business area such as human resources, finance, accounting, marketing / sales or clinical studies.

• Experience with organizational change management.

Education

• Bachelor’s degree in a science-related field, management or business administration, with an advanced technical degree or MBA desirable.

• PMP certified required

Some travel may be required.