Sr. Manager Strategic Program Lead

Passionate about precision medicine and advancing the healthcare industry?

Recent advancements in underlying technology have finally made it possible for AI to impact clinical care in a meaningful way. Tempus' proprietary platform connects an entire ecosystem of real-world evidence to deliver real-time actionable insights to physicians providing critical information about the right treatments for the right patients at the right time.

The (Sr.) Manager Life Sciences Client Management Operations oversees sequencing and companion diagnostic projects and process improvement for Tempus’ Life Sciences collaborations. This position manages the day-to-day projects and resources within the team. The position supports relationships with Tempus’ Laboratory  Bioinformatics Product Engineering and Data Science teams as well as Life Sciences partner companies’ project teams.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Lead program management and product management activities related to a large multi-year project involving a key Tempus strategic partnership.

• Coordinate with Product Teams on project specific asks and customizations

  • Develop project plans and schedules for product development that document project goals and objectives scope schedule budget risk management plan and project team resource requirements.

• Act as the lead project manager for customer programs including:

  • Go-to contact at Tempus for clients

  • Lead client meetings ensure decisions and action items are clearly documented and tracked to completion

  • Drive escalation and resolution of critical project related issues

  • Report out metrics to clients on a weekly basis

• Coordinate to ensure samples are moving appropriately through the lab and flagging samples at risk as appropriate

• Monitor project health through the effective use of project dashboards and management tools

• Ensure internal team member roles and responsibilities are clearly defined to achieve desired results

  • Keep internal stakeholders engaged and informed of progress and potential risks

• Manage all international components of client operations

QUALIFICATIONS

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree

• At least 5+ years of project or product management experience in a biotech pharmaceutical consulting or Clinical Research Organization (CRO) environment

• Experience with product development lifecycle

• Experience in clinical oncology trials is a plus

• Sharp attention to detail and ability to meet long- and short-term deadlines

• Strong presentation skills

Preferred Qualifications:

• Master’s Degree (e.g. MBA)

• Strong cross-functional collaboration

• Experience facilitating strategic and tactical planning with outside collaborators and clients

• Experience with API integration/connectivity projects

• Genomic data background and experience

CHI: $120000-$180000

The expected salary range above is applicable if the role is performed from Illinois and may vary for other locations (California Colorado New York). Actual salary may vary based on qualifications and experience. Tempus offers a full range of benefits which may include incentive compensation restricted stock units medical and other benefits depending on the position.

We are an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race religion color national origin gender sexual orientation age marital status veteran status or disability status. 

What We Do

We bring together one of the world’s largest libraries of multimodal clinical and molecular data with a robust suite of AI tools to help physicians personalize care in real time connect patients with therapies and clinical trials and enable partners to accelerate discovery and development of new treatments. With ~8 million de-identified research records and 350+ petabytes of data Tempus partners with more than half of U.S. oncologists and the majority of the top 20 global pharma companies. Our teams are pioneering work across oncology neurology psychiatry cardiology and beyond—transforming how care is delivered and therapies are developed. At Tempus every role contributes to our mission: to help each patient benefit from the experiences of those who came before. For more information visit tempus.com.

Why Work With Us

We’re looking for people who can change the world. People who question the status quo and refuse to shy away from tough problems. For builders who are never done building and the learners who are never done learning. Passionate individuals with undying curiosity who want to take on one of the greatest challenges humanity has ever faced—head on.

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