Sr IT Project Manager (Penang)

Where You Come In

• Lead end-to-end delivery of medium-to-large, cross-functional IT and IT/OT projects across multiple regions, ensuring successful outcomes aligned with business objectives, timelines, budgets, quality, and compliance requirements.
• Partner with business stakeholders, technical teams, and Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) to define project scope, business requirements, solution approaches, and delivery strategies.
• Engage early with business and IT stakeholders during project intake and initiation phases to shape scope, feasibility, and delivery approach.
• Drive project execution through all phases of the project lifecycle, including planning, resource coordination, testing, deployment, change management, and transition to support.
• Develop and maintain project plans, schedules, resource forecasts, budgets, communication plans, risk registers, and key project metrics to ensure effective project control and visibility.
• Coordinate project activities across business functions, application teams, infrastructure teams, and external partners to deliver scalable and sustainable technology solutions.
• Support project prioritization and planning activities by providing input on dependencies, resource constraints, and delivery impact across the project portfolio.
• Proactively identify, assess, and mitigate project risks, issues, dependencies, and resource constraints while ensuring timely escalation and resolution of critical concerns.
• Ensure adherence to IT governance, project management methodologies, change control processes, validation requirements, and regulatory compliance standards.
• Facilitate project governance meetings, status reviews, stakeholder communications, and executive reporting to drive alignment, transparency, and informed decision-making.
• Manage project financials, including budget tracking, vendor deliverables, contract commitments, forecasting, and cost management activities.
• Identify opportunities to improve project delivery effectiveness, streamline processes, and support automation and continuous improvement initiatives across IT and business functions.
• Contribute to PMO best practices, knowledge sharing, and continuous improvement initiatives to enhance overall project delivery maturity.
• Provide guidance and mentoring to junior project managers or team members to strengthen overall delivery capability.
• Support additional strategic initiatives and responsibilities as assigned.

What Makes You Successful

• Proven experience managing medium-to-large-scale IT projects and programs within complex global organizations.
• Strong project leadership capabilities with a demonstrated ability to lead cross-functional teams and deliver successful business outcomes.
• Extensive experience managing end-to-end project lifecycles, including planning, budgeting, resource management, execution, testing, deployment, and post-implementation support.
• Strong understanding of business processes and technology solutions supporting Manufacturing, Supply Chain, Commercial Operations, Finance, and Enterprise Systems.
• Experience leading complex system implementations, integrations, cloud initiatives, digital transformation programs, and business process improvement projects.
• Skilled in project planning, requirements management, Level of Effort (LOE) estimation, risk management, dependency tracking, and project governance.
• Strong stakeholder management, communication, facilitation, negotiation, and presentation skills, with the ability to engage effectively at all organizational levels.
• Proven ability to manage multiple priorities, competing demands, geographically distributed teams, and third-party vendors in a fast-paced global environment.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, decision-making, and organizational change management capabilities.
• Experience operating within regulated environments, including validation, compliance, quality, audit, and change control requirements.
• Experience supporting ERP, MES, Quality Systems, Manufacturing, Supply Chain, Commercial Applications, or other enterprise technology platforms.
• Experience within Medical Device, Healthcare, Pharmaceutical, or other highly regulated industries is preferred.
• Bachelor’s degree in information technology, Computer Science, Engineering, Business, or a related field.
• Minimum 8+ years of IT experience, including 5+ years of Project or Program Management experience within global organizations.