Role Summary:

MES Project Manager is responsible for driving the MES project to a successful completion by performing all the following functions.

• Responsible for full lifecycle of MES program from initiation to completion.
• Organize weekly team meetings, monthly steering committees, and ad-hoc meetings as necessary
• Maintain documentation for weekly meetings and steering committees, including meeting minutes
• Maintain risk register and project plan
• Escalate risks to the program manager
• Maintain activity list.
• Apply IT project management methodologies and appropriate project management, organizational change management framework for MES projects.
• Successfully initiate plan execute and close all project deliverables as committed.
• Collaboratively work with Business Owners, Leaders, Stakeholders and Users/Site.
• End-to-end responsibility for MES (Manufacturing Execution Systems) projects from project planning and resource allocation to on-time delivery within budget with high satisfaction of key stakeholders.
• Responsible for risk management, reporting and communication with steering committee.

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for managing the overall planning, execution and delivery of project.
• Define the project charter, roles, task, milestone and measure of success.
• Developing estimate and plans to manage end-to-end project execution.
• Acting as the link between assigned program resources and key stockholders
• Ensuring project closure including completion of lessons learned and required documentation.
• Use disciplined project management methodologies to define scope, develop project plan and execute projects that adhere to guidelines and deliver within schedule.
• Responsible for tracking program/project status and managing program/project issues and risk.
• Monitoring program/ project on an ongoing basis, evaluating progress/quality managing issue resolution.
• Develop robust program/project risk management plans to ensure timely delivery, testing and completion of project with no impact to business continuity.
• 20+ years of experience in managing complex enterprise level project.
• 20+ years of experience implementation MES solution in the industry (Pharma industry is preferred) or relevant experience in process industry.
• Program/Project management skills. Knowledge of project management vocabulary and terminology. Training and understanding of project domain.

Key Qualification and Skill Set:

• End to end encompassing both business process understanding and technical expertise.
• Knowledgeable in MES best practices and understand the resources and efforts needed to deliver solutions.
• 20+ year of Information Technology and Industry Experience. Pharma experience should be added advantage.
• Should have sound knowledge of programming, development, and architecting experience in software industries.
• Continuous improvement of project management processes and methodologies.
• Expert on MES topics and technologies that support the safe achievement of business requirement and goals.
• Should have 20+ years of experience in Information Technology.
• Should have 10+ technical program and project management experience.
• Should have worked as a program/project manager in a complete live production, software development lifecycle.
• Communicate extensively with key stakeholders to support active change and adoption management.
• Experience with GE Proficy, Camstar or custom .NET based MES applications will be preferred