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Position	Senior Manager, Client Projects
Company	Avega (a MedAssets company)
Date Posted	4/7/2008
Job Summary	This Senior Manager, Client Projects position will manage the implementation consulting, project management, and client relations for Avega's engagement with a multi-facility healthcare system based in Pittsburgh. The ideal candidate for the Senior Project Manager opportunity demonstrates strong leadership capabilities, communicates with impact, maintains excellent customer focus, and is detail-oriented. For nearly 25 years Avega has developed and delivered decision support solutions that deliver accurate and timely information to healthcare leaders. More than 700 healthcare facilities in North America use Avega's Alliance product suite and services. Avega, with offices in El Segundo, CA and Nashville, TN, is part of MedAssets, a margin and cash flow improvement company providing innovative supply chain and revenue cycle solutions for healthcare providers (http://www.medassets.com/).
Job Responsibilities	Client Relationship Management: Develops/maintains executive level relationships with client. Manages client expectations by building relationships; communicating project status and open issues; preparing reports; conducting reviews and issue meetings; discovering new issues. Project Management: Establishes and maintains project scope. Develops solution by formulating objectives; planning project life-cycle deliverables and resource availability and application; preparing installation and modification specifications; leading the exploration, evaluation, and design of technical solutions. Implements solution by monitoring project progress; tracking action items; conducting design and implementation reviews; examining, researching, and resolving issues; escalating issues to appropriate authority; responding to team members' concerns; following production, productivity, quality, and customer-service standards; identifying work process improvements. Manages and develops assigned implementation consultants and other project resources. Internal Responsibilities: Adheres to all company policies and procedures including, but not limited to those identified within the Standards of Business Conduct and the Employee Handbook, as may be amended from time to time. Adheres to all applicable laws and regulations and the company's governance/compliance program. Responsible for reporting violations of the company's policies and procedures, Standards of Business Conduct, governance program, laws and regulations through the company's Help Line or other mechanism that may be available at the time of the violation. Assists with internal control failure remediation efforts. Becomes knowledgeable of internal control responsibilities through training and instruction. Responsible and accountable for internal control performance within their area of responsibility. Participates in the internal controls self-assessment process. Ensures concerns with internal control design or performance and process changes that impact internal control execution are communicated to management. Possesses a full and complete understanding of the internal control requirements within their area of ownership/responsibility. Responsible and accountable for internal control implementation and performance within their area of ownership/responsibility. Ensures proper internal control change management protocol is followed. Establishes accountability for internal control performance with subordinates. Promotes the importance, residual benefits and high priority nature of effective internal control performance with subordinates. Ensures subordinates are adequately trained as to their specific internal control responsibilities. Ensures subordinates are adequately cross trained or otherwise have plans to sustain internal control performance during employee turnover/movement. Ensures the internal control self assessment process is implemented and testing results are documented and evaluated. Helps manage internal control failure remediation efforts. Ensures subordinates' historical internal control performance is monitored and results incorporated into the performance review process.
Job Qualifications	Minimum Knowledge, Competencies & Qualifications: Four-year degree; PMI certification strongly preferred. Software and information system implementation project management experience. 5-7 years of healthcare consulting or sales experience, including management of C-level relationships. Knowledge of/experience working in hospital operations, specifically hospital IT/IS. Experience working with customer support/client issue resolution management. Strong financial acumen; ability to develop budgets, forecast revenue, develop early warning signs and adapt the organization to achieve financial targets. Strong leadership skills; excellent oral and written communication skills Travel: Unless candidate is based in or relocates to Pittsburgh, 100% travel required so project manager is on site five days/week. Physical Demands: While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to sit for long periods of time working at a computer. The position requires the ability to talk or hear and is frequently required to use hands to finger, handle, or feel. The position is occasionally required to stand, walk, and reach with hands and arms. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 10 pounds.
Contact Info	Learn more: www.medassets.com Apply online at medassets.jobscience.com


Position	Senior Project Manager- Engineering - Medical Device/Pharmaceutical -multiple positions - Northeast United States
Company	Talented Minds – division of Silicon Executive Search Inc.
Date Posted	4/7/2008
Job Summary	The position is a high profile product development/project management role. Location: North East United States Type: Full-Time Salary: $140K - $200K Relocation Package offered to candidate outside New Jersey and Maryland $3000 referral fee offered to candidates referred and hired by client subject to passing of 90 probationary period.
Job Responsibilities	The position is a high profile product development/project management role involving working with various business units – such as R&D, Marketing, Regulatory Affairs and Manufacturing in developing complex platforms for hardware, software and chemistry critical to corporate business success. This position will involve compliance with capital expenditure budgets, timelines and accountability for planning, staffing and execution and controlling of budget.
Job Qualifications	Qualified Candidates must have the following qualifications: Minimum 10 years experience working for Medical Device or Biotech companies or Molecular division of Pharmaceutical Companies. 10 years of Project Management Experience. Project Management PMI certification preferred. BS/MS mechanical engineering/ Biomedical Engineering Experience with Medical Device or Biotech companies. Six Sigma certification is a nice to have (green, black). Excellent communication and negotiation and project management collaboration team skills. Extensive Knowledge in area of IEC/ISQ and FDA standards and compliance. MBA nice to have. The company would also consider someone coming from Marketing, Operations, Regulations with MS and MBA.
Contact Info	Resumes and inquires should be directed by email. Questions concerning compensation and other details regarding the position will be provided to all interested candidates. Relocation package provided to all qualified candidates. Locations include New Jersey (2) and Maryland (1). Josie Erent - Recruiter Talented Minds 416-232-0600 Josie.erent@talented-minds.com


Position	DIRECTOR, CLIENT SERVICES
Company	Maritz
Date Posted	10/11/2007
Job Summary	Basic Purpose: Manages and mentors a Maritz Motivation (MM) Client Services team, made up of Project Management professionals, to generate revenue and gross profit on client projects for which they are directly responsible. Builds and maintains long-term client relationships associated with all projects operated by the team. Serves as a main point of contact for Major Account Sector Sales (MASS) for business development opportunities, including opportunity identification and qualification, proposal development, and client presentations.
Job Responsibilities	DIRECT PROJECT MANAGEMENT AND PROJECT TEAM MANAGEMENT: (1) Assists and supports direct reports in the successful operation of all assigned projects, while maintaining hands-on involvement in the successful operation of at least one large-scale client MM program. (2) Oversees and takes responsibility for all projects operated in the group by ensuring completion of all phases of the business management process while achieving high standards of customer satisfaction on all projects. (3) Identifies and documents client expectations. (4) Coordinates the development and execution of a project pro-forma, letter of agreement, and statement of work including terms, conditions, and billing schedule. (5) Ensures all quoted services are delivered within budget, at expected levels of quality, and on schedule. (6) Tracks exceptions to budget, quality, and schedule. (7) Ensures project change authorizations (PCA) are initiated with each client-directed change to deliverables. (8) Drives periodic reviews of project performance to evaluate progress toward achieving or surpassing client objectives and general effectiveness of the solution. (9) Serves at the escalation point to resolve operational and resource issues that cannot be resolved among team members. (10) Participates in project financial reviews to ensure accuracy of budgets and forecasts, as well as accuracy of revenue recognition and costs. (11) Builds and maintains key relationships with clients. (12) Participates in client account reviews, providing ideas for project improvement, targeting future proposal development needs and soliciting ROI data. BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT: (1) Serves as a point of contact for the Major Account Sector Sales (MASS) and direct sales through pre-proposal stage discussions for proactive and RFQ opportunities, proposal qualification (review of the sales qualification document), proposal development (creating the proposal, soliciting budget information, directing creative area and project management for proposal needs, and providing the final document), and delivery of the proposal (2) Utilizes available financial tools to ensure that proposed project realizes financial targets and gains the approval of the MM management prior to proposal delivery. (3) Serves as the “Motivation” capabilities and deliverables subject matter expert during presentation. (4) Identifies client expectations and evaluates the effectiveness of the solution design phase, through the use of the post-proposal prospect/client survey, through account review sessions, and by reviewing any client feedback. (5) Conducts turnover/launch meeting with assigned Account Team to review the project contract, client history, established protocols, project costs, quality parameters and schedule, ensuring all are aware of client project deliverables. PEOPLE/PERFORMANCE MANAGEMENT: (1) Fosters a positive environment that promotes professional development of Project Management team. (2) Establishes career path within department for all team personnel, communicates objectives and skills required and provides coaching to foster career growth and advancement. (3) Communicates strategic plan to PM team in order to help achieve Maritz Motivation’s business objectives. (4) Ensures direct reports understand and embrace the Maritz Employee and Leader Behavior Models and Compass Values. (5) Interviews and makes staffing decisions by ensuring candidates meet required skills and align with employee behavior model. (6) Approves and submits salary recommendations to senior management. (7) Provides performance based recognition, in order to reinforce positive behavior as it occurs. (8) Supports and participates actively and enthusiastically in all management sponsored incentive, performance improvement, continuous improvement, and training/development activities. (9) Assigns projects to team members, and facilitates changes in project assignments and team structure. STRATEGIC AND TACTICAL PLANNING: (1) Collaborates with other MM Management to develop and implement strategic and short-term plans, with heavy emphasis on continuous improvement and margin improvement initiatives. (2) Refines and improves current processes and enhances PM tools.
Job Qualifications	Qualifications: (1) Eight to ten years of project management experience (manage costs, resources, quality and client interaction) to include a minimum of 3 years managing a group of project managers. Maritz experience in operations management strongly desired. (2) Financial acumen, understanding pricing and profitability levers. (3) Proven experience in new business development and sales support. (4) Prior experience writing business proposal responses. (5) Strong presentation skills. (6) Demonstrated experience in managing multiple teams and tasks simultaneously to accomplish goals under tight deadlines. (7) Assertive personality balanced with proficiency in handling informal authority roles on cross-functional teams. (8) Demonstrated analytical experience -- ability to compile and interpret data from multiple sources. (9) Proven ability to interact and communicate with clients on a strategic level. (10) Thrives in complex organization with proven ability to overcome obstacles in order to reach objectives. (11) Outstanding planning and organizational skills as demonstrated by successful experience in managing time, quality, schedule, budget and technology to produce desired results. (12) Project Management Institute (PMI) certification or equivalent Maritz Project Management Certification desired. (13) Bachelor degree in marketing, business, or related field. MBA preferred.
Contact Info	janet.thoele@maritz.com