Job Description

Everyone at Kite is grounded by one common goal – curing cancer. Every single day, we seek to establish a direct line between that purpose and our day-to-day work. Would you like to join us in this mission?

Kite is seeking a highly motivated Project Management Associate to provide project management expertise and support to the Frederick, Maryland manufacturing site.

Responsibilities (include but are not limited to):

• Engage stakeholders to align project priorities, coordinate interdependencies, and navigate risks
• Invest in building relationships with stakeholders to create an environment of trust and collaboration
• Facilitate project teams to establish clear project goals, objectives and measurements of success
• Work with project teams to create project charters, develop detailed project plans, including timelines, deliverables, resources, and project costs
• Coordinate and lead project team meetings, including meeting minutes, actions and escalations
• Develop and utilize visual tools to monitor and track all aspects of project progress including task completion, milestone tracking, escalations and resource utilization
• Ensure projects achieve planned milestones through rigorous schedule management
• Handle changes to project scope, project timeline and project budget and evaluate project risks
• Create and maintain comprehensive project documentation
• Ensure cross functional and global project statuses are reported to site/global portfolios on routine basis
• Support functional project portfolio management as needed
• Foster productive communication and alignment among the site functions and with global functions as appropriate
• Support the optimization and deployment of business processes and tools to improve efficiency and advance collaboration
• Leads and supports process improvement initiatives as needed
• Mentors others in creating a culture of continuous improvement

Basic Qualifications:

• Master’s Degree and 1+ year of relevant work experience
• Bachelor’s Degree and 3+ years of relevant work experience
• High School Diploma and 7+ years of relevant work experience
• Excellent verbal, written, and interpersonal communication skills
• Strong computer, organizational, and project management skills

Preferred Qualifications:

• PMP certified
• Lean Six Sigma Green or Black Belt certified
• Portfolio Management experience
• Expertise skill level in Excel, Project, Smartsheet, Tableau and SharePoint

Does this sound like you? If so, please apply today!

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