Program Manager #2651 (MPK)

Responsibilities:

• Create and drive timelines to keep project(s) on schedule. 
• Establish and maintain functionally integrated project schedules.
• Utilize tracking tools to enable effective project management across various functional areas.
• Schedule, organize, and drive project team meeting(s): prepare and distribute agendas/minutes; track action items, and escalate areas of risk to the appropriate management entity.
• Facilitate communication of issues and outcomes to the Core Team/Project team leadership.
• Manage the interfaces between functional areas and ensure effective handoff and communication between department functions to execute on important project milestones.
• Works with project leaders and/or SME’s to prepare status reports, specific project updates, or scenarios.
• Manage document review processes to support functional activities and other key project deliverables.
• Engage with quality and regulatory functions to ensure operational planning and execution meets expected standards.
• Collaborate with site Leadership/teams to define project-related budget assumptions for the annual operating plan. 
• Project manage cross-functional investigations interfacing with groups across the organization.

Qualifications:

• This job requires a combination of analytical, organizational, and interpersonal skills.
• The ideal candidate will have a blend of project management and laboratory operations knowledge in the medical diagnostics industry.

Requirements;

• BA / BS with 1-5 years of experience.
• MS / MBA with 0-2 years of experience.
• The ideal candidate will have at least 1-5 years multidisciplinary experience in the device/diagnostic/biotech/pharmaceutical industry, with 1-3 years of direct project management experience in laboratory operations that is CLIA certified.
• Knowledge of working under design control and design transfer from development to commercial operations is highly desired.

Key Attributes for a successful candidate

• 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 complex scenarios/ideas into clear messages and next steps to a broad audience
• Adaptive: Can pivot quickly to new ideas, 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.