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• Provide project management expertise to multiple cross-site, cross-functional pharmaceutical, biopharmaceutical and biological animal health product development teams to ensure execution of operational objectives. • Maintain project plans with timely information regarding timeline status, expense updates, critical path management, risk management, scenario planning, Gantt charts and resource forecasting. • Ensure execution of critical path to avoid delays and identify potential issues and opportunities for acceleration proactively.• Provide project activity level guidance to team members including activity start/finish dates, 3 month look-aheads and potential issues/opportunities arising related to activity progression.• Actively manage project expenses through effective communication of spend information with project team members and timely updates of forecasted total costs and timing of expenses within the project plans. • Maintain project plan quality and integrity through regular and thorough updates to activities, expenses and enterprise fields.• Foster a collaborative relationship with Finance, Procurement and Contract Management to ensure and efficient end-to-end process for project spending. • Green belt certified, serving as a coach for Yellow Belt candidates and on the Continuous Improvement Leadership Team.