Project Manager
Spectraforce
Thousand Oaks, California
15 days ago
Job Description
Job Title: Project Manager
Location: Remote - Preference to candidates on the west coast must be local to ATO.
Duration: 6 Months
Candidates local to ATO to occasionally come onsite would be preferred.
Ideal Candidate: B.S. 3-5 years of experience or M.S and minimum 2+ years of experience. Previous pharma experience or large organization consulting experience is a strong preference.
Top 3 Must Have Skill Sets:
Red Flags:
About Us: Established in 2004, SPECTRAFORCE® is one of the largest and fastest-growing diversity-owned staffing firms in the US. The growth of our company is a direct result of our global client service delivery model that is powered by our state-of-the-art A.I. proprietary talent acquisition platform, robust ISO 9001:2015/ISO 27001 certified processes, and strong and passionate client engaged teams. We have built our business by providing talent and project-based solutions, including Contingent, Permanent, and Statement of Work (SOW) services to over 140 clients in the US, Canada, Puerto Rico, Costa Rica, and India. Key industries that we service include Technology, Financial Services, Life Sciences, Healthcare, Telecom, Retail, Utilities and Transportation. SPECTRAFORCE is built on a concept of “human connection,” defined by our branding attitude of NEWJOBPHORIA®, which is the excitement of bringing joy and freedom to the work lifestyle so our people and clients can reach their highest potential. Learn more at: http://www.spectraforce.com
Benefits: SPECTRAFORCE offers ACA compliant health benefits as well as dental, vision, accident, critical illness, voluntary life, and hospital indemnity insurances to eligible employees. Additional benefits offered to eligible employees include commuter benefits, 401K plan with matching, and a referral bonus program. SPECTRAFORCE provides unpaid leave as well as paid sick leave when required by law.
Equal Opportunity Employer: SPECTRAFORCE is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, religion, color, sex, national origin, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, disability or veteran status, or any other category protected by applicable federal, state, or local laws. Please contact Human Resources at LOA@spectraforce.com if you require reasonable accommodation.
California Applicant Notice: SPECTRAFORCE is committed to complying with the California Privacy Rights Act (“CPRA”) effective January 1, 2023; and all data privacy laws in the jurisdictions in which it recruits and hires employees. A Notice to California Job Applicants Regarding the Collection of Personal Information can be located on our website. Applicants with disabilities may access this notice in an alternative format by contacting NAHR@spectraforce.com.
LA County, CA Applicant Notice: If you are selected for this position with SPECTRAFORCE, your offer is contingent upon the satisfactory completion of several requirements, including but not limited to, a criminal background check. We consider qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records for employment in accordance with all local ordinances and state laws, including the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers (FCO) and the California Fair Chance Act (FCA). The background check assessment will consider whether a criminal history could reasonably have a direct, adverse impact on the job-related safety, security, trust, regulatory compliance, or suitability for this role. Such findings may result in withdrawal of a conditional job offer.
At SPECTRAFORCE, we are committed to maintaining a workplace that ensures fair compensation and wage transparency in adherence with all applicable state and local laws. This position’s starting pay is: $63.23/hr.
Location: Remote - Preference to candidates on the west coast must be local to ATO.
Duration: 6 Months
Candidates local to ATO to occasionally come onsite would be preferred.
Ideal Candidate: B.S. 3-5 years of experience or M.S and minimum 2+ years of experience. Previous pharma experience or large organization consulting experience is a strong preference.
Top 3 Must Have Skill Sets:
- Project Management
- Operational Excellence
- Management Consulting
- Nice to have: Project management tools, Smartsheet, Tableau, PowerBI, experience previously leading workshops. Previous pharma experience is strongly preferred. Strong consulting experience at a large organization would be nice.
- Support key workstreams or projects, driving completion of specific workstreams or deliverables
- Provide solutions to complex issues, leveraging analytical approaches, established approaches, and critical thinking skills
- Drive high quality outputs and work products to meet key project milestones, budget, and quality expectations
- Boost operational excellence and continuous improvement culture across Global Engineering that drives behaviors to challenge the status quo in order to deliver sustainable results
- Leverage data and a consistent process to assess clients’ needs, develop options, make recommendations and flex to implement when appropriate. Select improvement opportunities that reduce costs, increase productivity, improve quality, and cycle time by reducing waste resulting in significant business improvement and customer satisfaction.
- Manage or support an array of OE and productivity improvement projects/programs across Global Engineering by using Lean, Six Sigma and Problem-Solving tools and analyses and drive the consistent use of these tools by others
- Help to prepare materials, structure, and co-facilitate workshops on OE/CI and productivity improvement, Kaizen event, etc.
- Support Excellence in Operations (EIO), Operations Innovation Awards (OIA) and Productivity Programs across Global Engineering.
- Support / help with the development, implementation and periodic revision of the Global Engineering strategy, transformation, innovation, operational excellence and continuous improvement efforts across all aspects of Engineering; including technologies, processes, and people.
- Help to prepare materials, structure, and co-facilitate workshops on strategy development and periodic refresh
- Support Engineering assessments, technical feasibility, lifecycle impact, and cost analysis of potential Engineering projects, e.g. Digital, Sustainability, Capital Expansion, etc.
- At least 2-3 years working directly in a management consulting
- OE Yellow belt certified
- Experience with Smartsheets, PowerBI, or similar project management tools
- Extensive knowledge of Excel and Powerpoint
- Demonstrate strong track record of project completion within consulting or industry
- Experience working both independently and within cross-functional teams
- Advanced problem solving skills and critical thinking ability, including the ability to structure and plan workstreams to address needs of various departments/functions/projects
- Strong command of technical applications/tools to support analysis and the development of automated processes or solutions
- Experience in synthesizing research and analysis into structures and logical recommendations
- Doctorate degree or Master’s degree and 2 years of experience or Bachelor’s degree and 4 years of experience or Associate’s degree and 8 years of experience or High school diploma / GED and 10 years of experience
Red Flags:
- No project management experience
- No Operational Excellence/ Continuous Experience
- No Management Consulting Experience
- 10+ years of working experience may be overqualified.
About Us: Established in 2004, SPECTRAFORCE® is one of the largest and fastest-growing diversity-owned staffing firms in the US. The growth of our company is a direct result of our global client service delivery model that is powered by our state-of-the-art A.I. proprietary talent acquisition platform, robust ISO 9001:2015/ISO 27001 certified processes, and strong and passionate client engaged teams. We have built our business by providing talent and project-based solutions, including Contingent, Permanent, and Statement of Work (SOW) services to over 140 clients in the US, Canada, Puerto Rico, Costa Rica, and India. Key industries that we service include Technology, Financial Services, Life Sciences, Healthcare, Telecom, Retail, Utilities and Transportation. SPECTRAFORCE is built on a concept of “human connection,” defined by our branding attitude of NEWJOBPHORIA®, which is the excitement of bringing joy and freedom to the work lifestyle so our people and clients can reach their highest potential. Learn more at: http://www.spectraforce.com
Benefits: SPECTRAFORCE offers ACA compliant health benefits as well as dental, vision, accident, critical illness, voluntary life, and hospital indemnity insurances to eligible employees. Additional benefits offered to eligible employees include commuter benefits, 401K plan with matching, and a referral bonus program. SPECTRAFORCE provides unpaid leave as well as paid sick leave when required by law.
Equal Opportunity Employer: SPECTRAFORCE is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, religion, color, sex, national origin, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, disability or veteran status, or any other category protected by applicable federal, state, or local laws. Please contact Human Resources at LOA@spectraforce.com if you require reasonable accommodation.
California Applicant Notice: SPECTRAFORCE is committed to complying with the California Privacy Rights Act (“CPRA”) effective January 1, 2023; and all data privacy laws in the jurisdictions in which it recruits and hires employees. A Notice to California Job Applicants Regarding the Collection of Personal Information can be located on our website. Applicants with disabilities may access this notice in an alternative format by contacting NAHR@spectraforce.com.
LA County, CA Applicant Notice: If you are selected for this position with SPECTRAFORCE, your offer is contingent upon the satisfactory completion of several requirements, including but not limited to, a criminal background check. We consider qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records for employment in accordance with all local ordinances and state laws, including the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers (FCO) and the California Fair Chance Act (FCA). The background check assessment will consider whether a criminal history could reasonably have a direct, adverse impact on the job-related safety, security, trust, regulatory compliance, or suitability for this role. Such findings may result in withdrawal of a conditional job offer.
At SPECTRAFORCE, we are committed to maintaining a workplace that ensures fair compensation and wage transparency in adherence with all applicable state and local laws. This position’s starting pay is: $63.23/hr.