Scientific Informatics Project Manager

Zifo is seeking a pragmatic and delivery-focused Informatics Project Manager to support technology and informatics initiatives for pharmaceutical and biotech customers. This role is well suited for a project manager who can bring structure, ownership, clear communication, and stakeholder coordination to complex technology projects, while continuing to build deeper domain expertise over time. The IPM will work with business analysts, technical teams, vendor partners, customer stakeholders, and global delivery teams to plan, execute, track, and successfully deliver informatics and technology-enabled business solutions.

Requirements

• Lead day-to-day project planning, execution, tracking, and coordination across business, technical, vendor, and customer teams
• Create and maintain practical project plans, schedules, RAID logs, action trackers, status reports, and meeting notes
• Manage project scope, priorities, risks, issues, dependencies, timelines, and resource needs with appropriate escalation
• Facilitate regular project meetings, follow up on actions, and ensure stakeholders have clear visibility into progress and blockers
• Coordinate with business analysts and technical teams to support requirements discussions, gap analysis, process mapping, testing, deployment, and transition activities
• Work with vendor and customer teams to align deliverables, timelines, responsibilities, and acceptance criteria
• Prepare concise project communications and status updates for internal leadership and customer stakeholders
• Support Agile, hybrid, or waterfall delivery approaches based on customer and project needs
• Build trusted working relationships with globally distributed teams and contribute to continuous improvement in delivery practices

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We are curious about YOU!We get excited about Project Managers who have:

• Practical project management experience in technology, software, IT services, informatics, life sciences, or another regulated/structured delivery environment
• Good working knowledge of SDLC and project delivery methods such as Agile, Scrum, hybrid, or waterfall
• Ability to manage project schedules, actions, risks, issues, dependencies, scope, and stakeholder communications
• Professional English communication skills sufficient to participate in meetings, write clear updates, and collaborate with global teams; fluency is preferred but not mandatory
• Strong Spanish communication skills; Portuguese is a plus depending on country/location
• Experience working with cross-functional and geographically distributed teams
• Comfort working with ambiguity, learning new domains quickly, and asking the right questions to move work forward
• Hands-on experience with tools such as Excel, PowerPoint, Word, Microsoft Project, Jira, Smartsheet, Confluence, Visio, or similar project collaboration tools