Project Manager

Project Manager

Physical Location: St. Louis Location: Sales - Central Zone
Location City: St. Louis Department/Function: US Sales
State/Territory/Province: US-MO Last updated: 4/30/13 12:19 PM

Description

VWR International, LLC, headquartered in Radnor, Pennsylvania, is a global laboratory supply and distribution company with worldwide sales in excess of $4.1 billion in 2012. VWR enables the advancement of the world's most critical research through the distribution of a highly diversified product line to most of the world's top companies in the pharmaceutical, biotech, industrial, educational, governmental and healthcare industries. With 160 years of industry experience, VWR offers a well-established distribution network that reaches thousands of specialized labs and facilities spanning the globe. VWR has over 8,000 associates around the world working to streamline the way researchers across North America, Europe, and Asia stock and maintain their labs. In addition, VWR further supports its customers by providing onsite services, storeroom management, product procurement, supply chain systems integration and technical services.

In addition to being a part of a global organization, VWR offers its associates competitive salaries and a wide range of benefits designed to help them stay healthy, plan for the future, prepare for the unexpected and balance the demands of work and home. VWR offers an outstanding benefits package that includes a 401(k) plan with a generous company matching contribution; medical, dental and life insurance; short- and long-term disability; EAP (employee assistance program); flexible spending account (FSA); holiday/vacation time; work/life balance programs; and education assistance.

At VWR, our associates are the framework of who we are and how we succeed. We value their accomplishments and offer long-lasting opportunities for growth and success. As a result, a substantial percentage of our associates have 10-, 20- and 30-year histories with VWR. Their loyalty reflects our ongoing commitment to offering great compensation, an engaging culture, and real opportunities for growth and success. VWR is a great place to work and we look forward to adding more outstanding members to our team.

Description:

Responsible for leading projects and improvement initiatives. Responsible for metrics development and reporting to highlight enterprise customers performance improvement opportunities.

Job Responsibilities:

Project Planning Develops and maintains comprehensive:

- Project plans (schedule, risk, issues, implementation)
- Project schedules using work breakdown structures, critical path
- Resource plans, including roles and responsibilities and both internal and external staffing
- Quality plan
- Risk Management plan
- Communication plan

Project Execution

- Meets project objectives within timeline and budget requirements
- Utilizes best practices to meet committed dates
- Manages team resources, external and internal stakeholders and business partners.
- Identifies and resolves conflicts proactively escalate to management appropriately.
- Tracks and resolves open issues.
- Provides regular and proactive communication to stakeholders, sales leadership, team members, and IS management.

Project Control

- Manages scope aggressively
- Manages change control
- Tracks resource usage and financial spend and make required adjustments.
- Understands and follows project accounting rules, especial capital and expense.
- Reviews and updates risk, quality, communications plans.
- Conducts regular project team and stakeholder meetings

Project Close

- Conducts administrative and financial closeouts
- Conducts Lessons Learned and update PMO risk list.

General PMO

- Timely maintains and updates project information in the PMO Project
- Follows project management best practices as identified in the VWR Project Managers Handbook.
- Performs other duties as assigned.

Experience & Skills:

- Project control methodology. Must be familiar with project control frameworks (such as VWR's PLC or external methodologies such as RUP)
- Excellent verbal and written communications skills (in English). Must be able to communicate effectively and concisely to project team members, IS/business management and senior management.
- Interpersonal skills. Able to manage relationships and deal with conflicts in a professional, objective manner.
- General business knowledge to be able to effectively manage vendor, contractor and business partner relationships and work. Must understand basic accounting (capitalization vs. expense)
- Organizational skills. Must be able to manage people, finances, business relationships encompassing a high level of detail.
- Leadership skills.

Qualifications:

- Formal training in project management tools, techniques and best practices is desired.
- Undergraduate degree or equivalent experience required.
- PMI Certification (PMP) highly desired.

Resume Submissions To VWR From Third Party Recruitment Firms Will Not Be Considered

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VWR maintains a drug free workplace
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