Project Manager, Nucleic Acid Testing

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Would you like to join an international team working to improve the future of healthcare? Do you want to enhance the lives of millions of people? Grifols is a global healthcare company that since 1909 has been working to improve the health and well-being of people around the world. We are leaders in plasma-derived medicines and transfusion medicine and develop, produce and market innovative medicines, solutions and services in more than 110 countries and regions.

Summary

The NAT Program Manager will be part of our Grifols Project Management Office (PMO) and is based in San Diego. The role will report directly into the Sr. Director NAT Project Management and work in the team of the NAT program for the fields of blood and plasma screening as well as Molecular Clinical Diagnostics. The Project Manager manages cross-functional teams while working with internal (including R&D, Manufacturing, Quality, Regulatory, Marketing, Technical Service and others) and external partners to achieve the business, operational and financial goals of the project/program, all the way through the lifecycle, from R&D to commercialization. The position oversees the creation of effective project strategies and the prioritization of initiatives and efforts. In parallel the individual will ensure that Grifols’ top priority projects get the appropriate visibility at management level. To be able to fulfil this role the individual needs 7+ years of experience within the IVD industry, with at least 3 years of experience as Project Manager or Project Leader. Experience in working and coordinating complex projects requiring integration of all core disciplines and functional areas is a must.

 

Your primary responsibilities:

• Support a set of Core Teams and Program Steering Committees (PSC) essential to the cross-functional development of new or improved products at the NAT franchise.
• Monitoring of the life-cycle of existing products and the successful launching of new products.
• Support on the design and follow-up of the strategic KPIs for the Product Franchise to ensure a 360º view. Provide visibility on project status to leadership and stakeholders; Monitor program goals and accomplishments and raises problems/roadblocks when needed.
• Leading the relationship and be the main contact with certain partners for the franchise. You coordinate all the work with the different departments internally to ensure the common projects with the partners are executed appropriately. You follow up on every topic with the different internal and external stakeholders. This includes the management of meetings like Joint Development Committees and Joint Steering Committees, setting-up the agenda of topics, leading the discussion to achieve its resolution, preparing the minutes, etc.
• Support and work with heads of all Functional groups to ensure effective deployment of resources for the assigned project/s. Coordinate execution of projects affecting multiple areas; Prioritizes initiative and efforts; Monitors project/program budget and accomplishments.
• Establish and coordinate a portfolio management framework; Facilitate decision making around top priority projects; help on the estimation of high-level end-to-end costs; Ensure top priority projects have the appropriate visibility at management level to promote decision making and timely progress.

 

About you:

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities we are looking for

• Technical skills to define need avoiding scope creep
• Cross functional skills (multiple areas involved)
• Business sense (understand value added of features vs cost to build them)
• Financial understanding to follow-up and monitor budgets and business cases
• Transparency & openness to quickly escalate issues or deviations
• Decision - making capacity/ Empowerment to avoid unexpected interruptions (bottle necks) in the schedule

 

Education and Experience we require for this role

• Bachelor’s degree, Master’s degree would be a plus. A scientific degree would be preferable (science, chemistry, biology, etc).
• 7+ years of experince within the IVD industy, with at least 3 years of experince as Project Manager/Project Leader.
• Experience in managing project budgets; Must have experience in working and coordinating complex projects requiring integration of all core disciplines and functional areas and should include work with corporate partners.
• Ability to manage multiple cross-functional and cross-cultural project teams.
• Previous work experience in a multi-national organization.
• Ability to manage a partnership relationship with an external company, making strong ties with stakeholders.

 

Equivalency

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