Associate Project Manager

Company: GTT, LLC
Location: Waukegan
Posted on: March 19, 2023

Job Description:

Associate Project Manager

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• Contract Duration 8+ months
  
  
  What the Role will do:
  
  
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  • Manage existing project schedules and manage tight budgets.
    
  • Track weekly tasks of individual contributors to completion
    
  • Gather and report weekly status
    
  • Work with and motivate cross-functional team members (including manufacturing engineering, quality, regulatory, supply chain, production, finance, and IT) to successful project completion through excellent interpersonal and influence skills.
    
  • Creatively solve project issues and proactively mitigate risks.
    
  • The ideal candidate will be a keen, hands-on problem solver and a strong, adaptable team member with a passion to drive results.
    
  • The influence exerted at the peer level
    
  • The Associate Project Manager plans organizes and prioritizes his own daily work routine to meet the established schedule.;
    
  • Maintains project plans, schedules, and budgets by using project management tools such as Microsoft Project and by working with appropriate staff to understand tasks necessary to complete the project.
    
  • Directs project execution by assigning tasks, tracking project schedules, identifying risks, and developing and executing contingency plans.
    
  • The Associate Project Manager communicates project status by preparing standard status reports, and by participating in departmental and customer project status update meetings.
    
  • Identifies and escalates project issues by working with team members, project customers, and others as appropriate.
    
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    Education Level:
    
    
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    • Bachelor's Degree or Equivalent work experience - 5 years minimum in a similar role
      
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      Skills:
      
      
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      • Strong communication and collaboration skills with global, cross-functional team members from operators to lead roles
        
      • Organized
        
      • Experience using Microsoft Project
        
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        About The Company:
        
        
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        • Our client is a globally diversified healthcare company with a central purpose to help people live their healthiest possible lives. They offer a broad portfolio of market-leading products that align with favorable long-term healthcare trends in both developed and developing markets. Working with this company, you'll tackle a wide array of problems including some of the world's greatest healthcare challenges while experiencing myriad cultures, geographies, and technologies. They are creating the future of healthcare through life-changing technologies and products that make you healthier and stronger, quickly identify when you have a medical need, and treat conditions to help you get back to doing what you love. It serves people in more than 160 countries with leading medical devices, diagnostics, nutrition products, and branded generic medicines. -
          
        • If you are looking for a great company to work for, look no further because our client has received an average of a four-star rating from its thousands of employees that have written positive reviews on Glassdoor and Indeed. -
          
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