Associate Director, Portfolio Program Management
About The Position
The Associate Director, Program Manager for new product development is a key leadership role on the team. Your primary responsibility will be to lead a complex, multi-disciplinary core team to launch products for Research Use Only (RUO), Lab Develop Tests (LDT), and In Vitro Diagnostics (IVD) that meet critical unmet needs for cancer patients. You will lead a cross functional core team in the development of a NGS assays, automation, and infrastructure, ensuring delivery of the product through launch while ensuring compliance with Guardant Health’s quality system deliverables and regulatory requirements. Experience with IVD or Medical Device product development will be critical to the success of this role. Successful end-to-end product development with complex systems is a must. You will work closely with key stakeholders across the organization, including marketing, regulatory, quality, medical affairs, reagent development and bioinformatics teams, among others. In addition, you will lead the joint project team with our external partners.
Requirements
- Bachelors degree in a business or a technical discipline.
- Relevant experience of 5 to 8 years with BS/BA
- Relevant experience of 3-5 years with Masters degree in addition to meeting the experience requirements
- Experience working in team environments is required.
- Expert level knowledge of Program / Project Management tools such as project scheduling, work breakdown structures, time and cost reporting is required.
- Experience working in FDA-regulated environments is required
- Specific experience managing complex system programs with multiple sub projects as part of a complete solution is required
- Experience with both Agile and Waterfall program management is required
- Position requires the ability to collect information from multiple sources, sort through, integrate, and resolve often conflicting requirements, and drive an organization through the various issues to result in a successful product launch
Nice To Haves
- An advanced degree in either business or a technical field is desired.
- PMP or similar certification is highly desired
- Experience leading core teams to successfully launch medical devices or in vitro diagnostic products is highly desired
- Experience in product development for NGS assays is desired
Responsibilities
- Lead a cross functional product development core team in the execution of deliverables.
- Work closely with R&D, Operations, Quality, Marketing, Regulatory, Medical Affairs and other departments to ensure project priorities and decisions are consistent between teams and corporate strategic plans
- Lead a cross functional joint project team with external partners to align and execute the project per contractual milestones
- Communicate program updates to the core team, to functional management and to executive leadership both internally and externally
- Ensure timely team completion of documents required for the product design history file
- Lead team efforts to mitigate risks and resolve issues quickly as they arise
- Lead the team through problem resolution including root cause analysis and corrective action
- Lead the team to prepare for phase gate reviews and other go/no go decisions required by executive leadership
- Lead the program planning, monitoring, and reporting
- Ensure effective communications with the Core Teams using a variety of tools and channels
- Define program resource needs, negotiate program resourcing plans and track resource usage over the course of the program
- Perform other related duties and assignments as required
- Manage leadership stakeholders and present at executive management forums
Benefits
- Health insurance
- Dental insurance
- Vision insurance
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Director
