Senior Project Manager, Life Cycle Team
GRAIL is a healthcare company whose mission is to detect cancer early, when it can be cured. GRAIL is focused on alleviating the global burden of cancer by developing pioneering technology to detect and identify multiple deadly cancer types early. The company is using the power of next-generation sequencing, population-scale clinical studies, and state-of-the-art computer science and data science to enhance the scientific understanding of cancer biology, and to develop its multi-cancer early detection blood test. GRAIL is headquartered in Menlo Park, CA with locations in Washington, D.C., North Carolina, and the United Kingdom. It is supported by leading global investors and pharmaceutical, technology, and healthcare companies. For more information, please visit www.grail.com.
This position will be responsible for providing Project Management expertise and support to one of GRAIL’s Lifecycle Teams or Business Programs, ensuring all project achievements and deliverables are met and that activities are well executed and managed.
The successful candidate will partner with the Product Manager to optimize the team’s efficiency and decision making, facilitate team building and communication, create and drive timelines to keep project(s) on schedule and collaborate with Program Management (“PMO”) Leadership.
You Will:
- Establish and maintain functionally integrated project timelines and other tracking tools to enable accurate project management across various functional areas.
- Schedule, organize, and drive team meeting(s): prepare and distribute agendas/minutes; track action items, and call out areas of concern to the appropriate management entity.
- Facilitate communication of working group issues & outcomes to the program team leadership.
- Lead the interfaces between functional areas and ensure effective handoff and communication between department functions to execute on meaningful project milestones. This includes regular interactions with functional heads for resource management.
- Interacts with working group leads and/or SMEs to prepare status reports, specific project updates, and scenarios.
- Coordinate resources, timelines, and results with other business program managers.
Your Background Includes:
- A minimum of a BA/BS in a scientific field is required, while an advanced degree is desirable in a subject area related to device, diagnostic, and/or drug development.
- The ideal candidate will have at least 10 years of multi-disciplinary experience in the device/diagnostic/biotech industry, with 3-5 years of direct project management experience on interdisciplinary or cross-functional product development teams. Project Management Certification (PMP or equivalent) is a plus.
- Understanding of CLIA/CAP, FDA regulatory processes and prior experience with regulatory filings with Device/Diagnostics.
- Experience working under design control.
- Proactive/not passive: Motivated to solve problems and create/manage situations to move forward while keeping the whole team intact through positive energy.
- Communication: Can distill sophisticated scenarios/ideas into clear messages and next steps to a broad audience
- Adaptive: Can pivot quickly to new insights, direction and process while being grounded in defining what success looks like.
- "Edge": Comfortable in tough situations, can be relied on in tense circumstances, and will face difficult challenges with poise and self-assurance. For example, comfortable influencing decision-making of others internally, across functions/team, and at any level.
Key Attributes for a successful candidate:
We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.
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