Senior Project Manager - Commercial

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. GRAIL, LLC is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Illumina, Inc. (NASDAQ:ILMN). For more information, please visit www.grail.com.

Senior Project Manager - Commercial 

This position will provide project management expertise to GRAIL’s Commercial teams, ensuring all relevant, interdependent project achievements and deliverables are met and that activities are well completed and handled.

This role will work with cross-functional collaborators through Joint Project Team(s), including Commercial, Medical, Product, Software, Bioinformatics, and Operations partners. Will partner with product/project management and commercial team members to optimize team efficiency and decision making, facilitate team building and communication. Will be personable as the role will require interactions with teams, customers and vendors.

You Will:

• Establish and maintain functionally coordinated project timeline and tracking tools to enable accurate project management across functional areas
• Schedule, coordinate, and drive team meeting(s): prepare and distribute agendas/minutes; supervise action items, and call out areas of concern to the management entity
• Facilitate communication of status updates, issues, and outcomes to the Project Team leadership
• Own the interfaces between functional areas, focused on Commercial functions (including Sales, Marketing, Enterprise, and Commercial Operations), and ensure effective handoff and communication between teams to execute on meaningful project milestones. 
• Manage resources, including timelines and deliverables with other Project Team managers and functional heads.
• Serve as liaison between GRAIL and any partners, as needed, to develop workflows, establish relationships, communicate requirements internally and externally, and shepherd results and achievements.

Your background should include:

• 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.
• Will have ~10 years 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 passionate about clinical and business operations. Experience interacting with Quality and Regulatory teams in the development of commercial processes is desired. Project Management Certification (PMP or equivalent) is a plus.
• The ideal candidate will also be familiar with the relevant domains of laboratory operations, especially as it relates to commercial activities (e.g. Sales, Marketing, Enterprise, and Commercial Operations). 
• Previous experience working with corporate partners or acting as a liaison is required. Experience working under design control and in the oncology space helpful.
• Excellent interpersonal skills, ability to develop important relationships with customers and key partners, good leadership skills
• Results orientated and self-motivated, ability to work with minimal direction
• Proactive/not passive: Motivated to tackle problems and build 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 adjust 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 tact and self-assurance. For example, comfortable influencing decision-making of others internally, across functions/team, and at any level.
• 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.

GRAIL is an Equal Employment Office and Affirmative Action Employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, disability or any other legally protected status. We will reasonably accommodate all individuals with disabilities so that they can participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.

Following extensive monitoring, research, consideration of business implications, and advice from internal and external experts, GRAIL has made the decision to require all U.S. employees receive the COVID-19 vaccines as a condition of employment. “Full vaccination” is defined as two weeks after both doses of a two-dose vaccine or two weeks since a single-dose vaccine has been administered. Anyone unable to be vaccinated, either because of a sincerely held religious belief or a medical condition or disability that prevents them from being vaccinated, can request a reasonable accommodation.