Job Title:
Project Manager Senior
Location: Remote
Duration: 1 year
In this role, you will help shape the future of the Precision Medicine organization as a key member of the PMed Strategic Planning and Operations team. We are seeking a Seasoned Project Manager to join our group of leaders and business partners on a high?priority initiative focused on simplifying one of clients largest cross?functional processes-driving meaningful value across the enterprise. Reporting into the Strategic Planning and Operations function within PMed, the Senor Project Manager will support one or more transformation initiatives spanning end to end R&D processes. You will help teams organize, plan, execute, and deliver against their goals to advance critical business outcomes.
Responsibilities:
- Works closely with the SPO and workstream leaders to help plan, execute, monitor, and control, activities to meet the established goals and objectives within the constraints of scope, quality, time, and budget.
- Ensures project plans, actions, and decisions are documented and progress is communicated to key stakeholders.
- Facilitates team meetings and communications, including proactively creating schedules, agendas, minutes, action items, memos, presentations and other documents.
- Applies knowledge and understanding of team objectives, escalating issues to the leaders as appropriate.
- Works closely with team leads to accurately map end-to-end processes in the Precision Medicine space
Ideal Candidate:
- The ideal candidate is a Senior Project Manager with 5-7+ years of experience leading complex cross-functional initiatives within biotech, pharma, life sciences, or consulting environments supporting those industries.
- They are highly proactive, thrive in ambiguous environments, and consistently drive projects forward with minimal oversight.
- They possess exceptional critical thinking skills, can synthesize complex information into actionable plans, and naturally identify next steps rather than simply executing assigned tasks.
- They have experience partnering with executive-level stakeholders, facilitating leadership meetings, coordinating across multiple functional teams, and creating executive-ready documentation.
- A scientific background, PhD, or laboratory experience is not required; business-oriented biotech experience is sufficient.
- Strong interpersonal skills, executive presence, ownership, and the ability to collaborate across global teams are essential for success in this role.
Top 3 Must Have Skills:
- Demonstrated results navigating through ambiguous business processes.
- Experience managing complex, workforce strategy / build R&D projects including developing and executing against project plans.
- Experience generating project documentation, eg. charters and plans including goals, objectives, deliverables, resources, risk mitigation, timelines etc.;
Basic Qualifications:
- Doctorate degree and 3 years of experience OR
- Masters degree and 5 years of experience OR
- Bachelors degree and 7 years of experience OR
- Associates degree and 12 years of experience OR
- High school diploma / GED and 14 years of experience
Preferred Qualifications:
- Demonstrated results navigating through ambiguous business processes.
- Experience managing complex, workforce strategy / build R&D projects including developing and executing against project plans.
- Experience generating project documentation, eg. charters and plans including goals, objectives, deliverables, resources, risk mitigation, timelines etc.;
- Effective Meeting Management practices, including scheduling, preparations, minutes and following up on completion of action items;
- Can develop role based curriculum tailored using templates from the business and one on one interviews with key leadership.
- Familiarity with Research and Development processes in a science-based company or similar industry
- Excellent written and verbal skills
- Proactive, curious, and high learning agility
- Self-starter with excellent organizational skills
- Flexibility, resilience, and ability to adapt as the business evolves
- Strong critical thinking with the ability to synthesize facts and insights for problem solving & decision making
- Proficient using PowerPoint, Excel, Outlook, & MS Teams
Possible Extension:
Red Flags:
- Inability to synthesize verbal information into tangible plans and execute with minimal direction. There will be onboarding, but critical thinking will be tested through the interview process to make sure that someone can take in information, reasonably think about it and then respond with next steps. Must be coachable.
Interview Process:
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