Job Description
Junior Project Manager
Central Scotland/Remote UK
If you are a curious and people-oriented forward thinker looking to build a career in project management, then this could be the role for you!
As a Junior Project Manager at Aridhia you will receive support, training, and the opportunity to work with world class research hospitals, pharma and biotech specialists, and global research networks.
You will be a key member of the Aridhia team supporting and eventually leading the delivery of external and internal projects. This will include working closely with clients to define the scope, objectives, timelines, and deliverables to implement our best-in-class digital research environment.
Working with Aridhia is more than just a job, it is a chance to make a real difference to the world. Our customers are conducting important research into diseases including Alzheimer's, Cancer and rare diseases and you will be supporting them.
What’s in it for you?
In addition to competitive remuneration packages with opportunities to share in our commercial success, we offer the following benefits:
o Flexible working, including Remote Working, Compressed Hours, and Flex-time
o Annual holiday entitlement of 35 days, inclusive of three public holidays
o Private healthcare for employees and their families (Including access to EAP programmes, mental health treatment and spa, gym and golf discounts)
o Death in Service scheme
o Generous Company Pension scheme
o Enhanced maternity, paternity and sick pay benefits
o Individually tailored induction and personal development plans
o Personal Training Budget
o Free flu vaccinations
o Company social events
o Access to meeting venues and hot desk facilities
What you’ll be doing…
o Motivating teams to deliver our core products, solve challenges, and work together by leading with respect, positivity, and accountability.
o Following established processes for projects to ensure they’re effectively planned, managed, and resourced.
o Leading and facilitating routine team meetings as well as providing input into internal and client status meetings. This will involve communicating goals and priorities to internal teams, ensuring tasks are accomplished on time, within budget and to quality standards.
o Identifying and proactively managing risks and issues, appropriately escalating issues where needed for senior leaders to provide support.
o Working with clients from early project initiation stages to implementation and scale out, encompassing project and account management skills as the project evolves.
o Manage stakeholder relationships and expectations (customers, partners, and suppliers) for successful coordination throughout projects.
o Collaborating across technical and customer-facing teams to ensure smooth delivery and excellent customer service.
o Being an advocate for our platform as well as identifying and championing features that could benefit our customers and end users.
o Some travel to client premises may be required.
o As this is a Junior Project Manager role, support and guidance will be provided.
Qualification/Skills Required
Essential
o A keen interest in project management and developing skills to effectively lead project teams.
o Strong organisational and planning skills.
o A positive and proactive approach to working and confidence to do so in a dynamic, fast-paced environment.
o Ability to grasp a technical understanding of Aridhia offerings and product architecture.
o Excellent communication skills and the ability to build strong working relationships with colleagues and clients.
o Ability to work independently and flexibly to complete tasks.
o Excellent client-facing skills including delivering presentations, interpreting requirements, and articulating proposed solutions.
Desirable
o Experience managing projects or leading workstreams.
o An understanding of project management frameworks, methodologies, and the project lifecycle.
o Degree in an analytical or scientific field (e.g. life sciences, engineering, medical, technology, etc).
o Finance and commercial awareness and the ability to identify potential upsell opportunities.
o Technical awareness of cloud and information technology such as the software development lifecycle, Agile methodologies, SaaS/PaaS, etc.
o An understanding or experience working with statistical programming languages (e.g., R, Python, Julia, etc).
o Experience in the healthcare domain, clinical research, or academia.
o Formal project management qualification(s).
About Aridhia
Aridhia enables clinical and life sciences users to use Cloud services to collaborate, investigate and develop innovative therapies, diagnostics, and care pathways for a range of medical conditions. We do this through Software and Platform as a Service, giving self-service access to secure workspaces for data management, de-identification, statistics and machine learning, cloud computing and interactive visualisation. In this way, a growing number of research hospitals, universities and pharmaceutical companies can ensure confidentiality, compliance, and ethical use of patient data.
Our Aridhia Digital Research Environment (DRE) is built on leading technologies and this role offers the exciting opportunity to join an inclusive, talented and dedicated top-flight technical team and to develop and enhance your experience and skills whilst contributing to the delivery of our roadmap and key strategic projects.
We follow an agile working method with daily team stand-ups, progress boards, and sprints to keep people informed and involved as projects evolve, and to share knowledge across teams. Aridhia is entrepreneurial and ground-breaking. We are creating a market and growing a business; it’s probably unlike anything you’ve done before!
Please note all successful candidates will be required to achieve a Basic Disclosure Scotland Certificate.
Job Types: Full-time, Permanent
Benefits:
- Casual dress
- Company events
- Company pension
- Flexitime
- Free flu jabs
- Private medical insurance
- Referral programme
- Sick pay
- Work from home
Schedule:
- Flexitime
- Monday to Friday
Work Location: Remote
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