Program Manager, R&D Science #2483

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.

Program Manager, R&D Science

This position will be responsible for providing Program Management expertise and support to GRAIL teams working on Research and Development. The successful candidate will be comfortable working on projects across but not limited to the R&D-related functional areas as well as validations studies. The Program Manager may be assigned to cross-functional sub-teams of high corporate value. The Program Manager will ensure that all project milestones and deliverables are met, and that activities are well executed and managed. Responsibilities include the day-to-day planning, coordinating, and tracking of critical activities including management of cross-functional projects interfacing with the functional groups, as well as with subject matter experts across the organization.  The successful candidate will partner with functional, Life Cycle and study team leaders to optimize teams’ effectiveness, decision making, communication and utilize robust negotiating skills to facilitate integrated decision making.



You Will

• Create and drive timelines to keep project(s) and studies 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 sub-team 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/study leaders and/or SME’s to prepare status reports, specific project updates, or scenarios.
• Adhere to design control best practices and engage with functional leads to generate expected documentation throughout product development 
• Manage document review processes to support functional activities and other key project deliverables.

Requirements

• Minimum of a BA/BS is required. An advanced degree (PhD, MS, MBA, MD) is desirable in a discipline related to drug development or business.
• The ideal candidate will have 3-5 years of multidisciplinary experience in the device/diagnostic/biotech/pharmaceutical industry, with 1-3 years direct project management experience in R&D 
• Experience working under design control
• 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.

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.

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