Clinical Project Manager, Operations

Company Description

Guardant Health is a leading precision oncology company focused on helping conquer cancer globally through use of its proprietary tests, vast data sets and advanced analytics. The Guardant Health oncology platform leverages capabilities to drive commercial adoption, improve patient clinical outcomes and lower healthcare costs across all stages of the cancer care continuum. Guardant Health has commercially launched Guardant360®, Guardant360 CDx, Guardant360 TissueNext™, Guardant360 Response™, and GuardantOMNI® tests for advanced stage cancer patients, and Guardant Reveal™ for early-stage cancer patients. The Guardant Health screening portfolio, including the Shield™ test, aims to address the needs of individuals eligible for cancer screening.

Job Description

About the Role:

As a Clinical Project Manager in the Operations Program Management team, you will work closely with the Operations team and collaborate with cross-functional key stakeholders across the organization, including Technology Development, Quality, Bioinformatics, Clinical Development and Biopharma Teams.  The Operations Program management team manages all projects/programs within the Operations portfolio ensuring projects/programs move forward as effectively and successfully as possible through the development and implementation of project management best practices. You will lead and participate in supporting the projects, maintaining timelines and schedules, and supporting cross functional activities.  Activities include supporting continuous improvement projects, Sustain and Support, new product launches and activities pertaining to multi-site functionality. 

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Maintain biopharma project timelines and RUO lab schedules across multiple products and sites.
• Communicate progress towards quarterly goals through weekly updates.
• Serve as a point of contact between biopharma teams.
• Facilitate discussions between Technical Development and Biopharma Teams on execution plans for non-standard sample types. 
• Maintain biopharma SmartSheet Suite.
• Host weekly meetings to discuss project timelines/ status.
• Guide cross functional teams with next steps;
• Develop methods to track, monitor and report key operational metrics;
• Monitor and maintain updates, meeting minutes, project status cross functionally;
• Responsible for Core Team communication of program/project strategy, progress, and risks/issues to company leadership and other key stakeholders;
• Manage and monitor strategic and operational project risks and ensure implementation of mitigation strategies;

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in a business or technical discipline.
• 5+ years of experience working in operations or similar position.
• Previous experience in project management or cross functional teams preferred.
• Previous clinical laboratory work or molecular biology techniques preferred.
• Experience working with project management tools.
• Ability to proactively communicate consistently, clearly, and honestly with internal employees and managers as needed.
• Position requires the ability to collect information from multiple sources, sort through, integrate, and resolve often conflicting timelines.
• Experience leading team meetings and gathering information in an organized manner.
• Possess meticulous attention to detail.
• Able to integrate and apply feedback in a professional manner.
• Good communication and project management skills, appropriate for both leadership and individual contributor roles.
• Enjoy working independently and collaboratively in a fast-paced environment and able to adapt to change.
• Experience in using such tools as Smartsheets, Confluence, Microsoft Office and Tableau.

Additional Information

Hybrid Work Model: At Guardant Health, we have defined days for in-person/onsite collaboration and work-from-home days for individual-focused time. All U.S. employees who live within 50 miles of a Guardant facility will be required to be onsite on Mondays, Tuesdays, and Thursdays. We have found aligning our scheduled in-office days allows our teams to do the best work and creates the focused thinking time our innovative work requires. At Guardant, our work model has created flexibility for better work-life balance while keeping teams connected to advance our science for our patients.

Covid Vaccination Policy:  Guardant Health requires all employees to be fully vaccinated. We follow the CDC guidelines for the definition of “fully vaccinated”, meaning an employee is consider fully vaccinated against COVID-19 after receiving the second dose of a two-dose vaccine or one dose of a single-dose vaccin