Position Summary:
Provides project management support and coordination to multiple research and development teams to ensure execution of operational objectives. This role in partnership with the Project Manager will ensure project plans are maintained to provide timely information regarding timeline status, expense updates, and resource forecasting. In addition, the project analyst will generate department and portfolio level reports on project metrics, resource planning, and budgets. This position is a utility role within the project office and handles a wide variety of challenges.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
- The Project Analyst works with the Project Manager team to ensure accurate timelines, costs, and resource needs are reflected in project plans in the enterprise project management tool.
- Use enterprise level software systems to produce appropriate reports for the various Zoetis stakeholders.
- Foster a collaborative relationship with Finance, Procurement and Contract Management to ensure an efficient end-to-end process for project spending.
- Subject matter expert on the VMRD enterprise project management tool.
- Working with the project managers and extended engineering leadership team, compiles the data required for the annual budget cycle including labor by project and skill, external spend by project, and capital expenditures.
- Generate and presents budget decision material for the engineering leadership team.
- Provide the extended engineering leadership team and project managers training and support on resource planning and helps in problem resolution.
- Handles special assignments in the support of the project office.
Requirements:
- Bachelor's degree in a scientific or business-related field with some project management training. PMP preferred.
- Minimum of 10 years of project office experience with knowledge of product development and project management processes.
- High level of computer competency including Microsoft Office suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, SharePoint, Teams, and Project) and enterprise software such as SAP.
- Organized with excellent interpersonal and presentation skills.
- Goal oriented with the ability to work independently.
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