Real World Evidence - Program Lead #3271

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.
GRAIL is seeking an Assistant Director, Program Lead, Real World Evidence to provide Program Leadership support to GRAIL/ teams working on RWE studies and activities. You will work on projects related to real world evidence generation, and will work closely with Clinical Development, Clinical Operations, Data Management, Software, Billing and Finance teams. This role will ensure that project milestones and deliverables are met, foster collaboration with team leaders, optimize teams’ effectiveness, and facilitate decision-making and communication.
The ideal candidate is an authentic, passionate team player, curious innovator, forward thinker, empowered by the idea of shaping their career, and ready to bring their fire to embrace the GRAIL mission - to detect cancer early, when it can be cured. As a key member of our team, you will have the opportunity to contribute to the advancement of early cancer detection and be a part of an inclusive workplace where all voices are valued. 
This role will report to the Senior Director, Head of RWE.This role will be based in San Francisco, CA and is suitable for a hybrid arrangement.

What You’ll Do At GRAIL;

• Develop, track and help the team achieve program wide milestones and deliverables; track progress between timelines.
• Work with study lead and cross-functional team members to define project scope, objectives and lead the preparation of the project plan. This will require integrating scope, budget, and input from internal and external stakeholders.
• Connect dots between working groups, documenting action items
• Foster cross functional collaboration; manage interfaces between functional areas and ensure effective handoff and communication between departments for project milestones; collaborate with all internal stakeholders to align objectives, define critical inputs to program, develop timelines, and identify risks.
• Facilitate communication of cross functional team meetings, facilitate decision making with cross functional teams, and highlight decisions, issues and risks to core team/project team leadership.
• Lead risk management within project teams, ensuring risks have appropriate mitigation and contingency plans.
• Effectively plan and manage projects: define project objectives, requirements, cross functional dependencies, assumptions, and schedule to meet project goals. 
• Support program budget; define project-related budget and resourcing needs with project/study leads and cross functional leads.
• Facilitate and lead effective project meetings and workshops, manage change, and conflict, and develop resource planning estimates to manage project workload and productivity. Create agenda topics, facilitate project/team meetings, and write/review meeting minutes.
• Develop, drive, and maintain integrated program plans, and timelines aligning project tactics with program strategy.
• From a big-picture perspective of all cross functional contingencies and external dependencies, track action items and escalate areas of risk, resource contraings, and conflicts that could impact project timelines. Proactively develop mitigation/maximization plans.
• Prepare status reports, specific project updates, or scenarios with project/study leaders and/or subject matter experts. 
• Manage document review processes to support functional activities and project deliverables.
• Collaborate with quality and regulatory functions to ensure operational planning and execution meet standards.
• Create/contribute to reporting system that collects progress on objectives, tactics, KPIs, and priorities to support articulation of the value Medical Affairs brings to the organization.
• Provide logistic support as needed.

The Right stuff - Preferred Qualifications;

• Bachelor’s degree in a scientific field with 10+ years program management  experience in pharmaceutical or biotechnology industry. PMP certification is highly desired. Prior small biotech/startup experience is a plus.
• Independently motivated, excel at driving execution.