Sr Specialist, Project Manager
About The Position
This role involves leading and facilitating project meetings, generating meeting minutes, and tracking action items to ensure successful project execution. The Specialist will coordinate strategy to meet project business objectives, collaborate with team members on project plans, and interface with stakeholders. Key responsibilities include proactively identifying and resolving project issues, communicating progress to senior leadership, and working with research and development teams to develop SOPs and document experimental results. The role also involves monitoring reagent usage, tracking OKRs, and potentially growing and managing the project management group as the company expands. Experience with facilities and laboratory construction project management is a plus.
Requirements
- BS in Chemistry, Biology, or a related field
- 5 plus years of project management in a relevant area with demonstrated success in the role
- Excellent communication skills with ability to work with a wide range of contributors in an effective manner
- Understanding of DNA synthesis and/or sequencing expected
- Self-starter who can take basic directions and deadlines and develop a project plan including setting goals and milestones
- Fostered a collaborative team culture, readily stepping outside core responsibilities to ensure collective success
Nice To Haves
- PMP Certification desired
- Experience with Asana, Project or similar project management software desired
- Ideally has experience with Confluence, along with LIMS and MES systems
- Experience with facilities and laboratory construction project management also a plus
- Proven management experience with a track record of leading high-performing teams desired
- Strategic relationship-builder with a talent for proactive problem identification and resolution
Responsibilities
- Lead and facilitate project meetings with a structure and agenda that is specifically engineered to ensure successful execution
- Generate and disseminate meeting minutes that accurately capture key decisions, open issues, and action items
- Follow up on status of task and action item execution both within and outside of meetings, and update project documentation (project timeline, meeting minutes) accordingly.
- Coordinate strategy to meet project business objectives
- Collaborate closely with team members to develop detailed project plans
- Interface with internal and external stakeholders to ensure successful achievement of project milestones
- Proactively identify any issues, concerns, or challenges of assigned projects
- Develop action plans to address open issues, including escalation to key partners and stakeholders
- Regularly communicate the project progress to senior leadership
- Work with research and development team to develop SOPS
- Both supply and monitor documentation of experimental results
- Working with lan manager Tack key critical reagent usage and performance metrics, delivering actionable reports to optimize team workflows and resource allocation
- Facilitate the generation and continuous tracking of quarterly goals (OKRs) to maintain alignment across departments
- As the company grows, work with senior management to grow and manage the project management group
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
