Lead Program Manager, Product Development - Cologuard

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Position Overview

The Lead Program Manager, Product Development will be responsible for organizing and executing programs to support the product development pipeline, leading them toward successful completion while providing project/program management experience, rigor, and consistency across R&D. This is a hands-on role that requires close collaboration with all levels at Exact Sciences and will focus primarily on new development and product enhancement for our screening products.

This role requires an experienced and credible practitioner of project management, capable of delivering and continuously improving foundational project management capabilities while driving healthy change across new product development programs with the continued engagement of key stakeholders and thought leaders. This role will manage complex, cross-functional programs to ensure strategic business objectives are met and accomplished on time and within budget.  

Essential Duties

Include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Lead and coach multiple efforts and teams to deliver work successfully. 
• Work with business stakeholders to define strategy and requirements to define and execute R&D programs.
• Develop and control schedules, timelines/deadlines, budgets, risk management plans, quality goals, and lead the team to success. 
• Participate in design and usability reviews to ensure alignment with stakeholders. 
• Maintain detailed program metrics around initiative goals. 
• Drive continuous improvements in all aspects of the process. 
• Drive tough decision making while balancing business goals, technical implications, and timelines. 
• Communicate frequently and clearly with all levels of the organization; including core and extended project team members, functional managers, senior leaders, stakeholders, and partners. 
• Keep management, team, and business areas informed of program and project status and related issues. 
• Formulate, organize, and monitor inter-connected projects including coordination of cross-project activities. 
• Organize, present, and convey complex problems or issues within and across other functions. 
• Mentor and lead junior program management team members. 
• Manage teams across functional boundaries, both internal and external. 
• Work closely with core team members to ensure functional design; assign duties, responsibilities, and scope of authority to project personnel. 
• Ability to apply leadership techniques to meet the demands of a dynamic and growing company.   
• Apply excellent change management and issue resolution skills with the ability to deliver results. 
• Ability to apply change, risk, and resource management.
• Listen and communicate clearly, negotiate, mitigate conflict, build alliances, and achieve desired results using strong interpersonal and diplomacy skills. 
• Apply strong attention to detail with the ability to see the big picture.  
• Apply excellent communication and interpersonal skills along with ability to influence others. 
• Ability to work with multiple internal cross-functional teams and successfully manage multiple projects simultaneously.  
• Ability to communicate complex information and concepts succinctly. 
• Apply strong collaboration, project management, and process improvement skills. 
• Ability to be highly organized and self-motivated. 
• Apply strong customer focus with a track record for driving delivery and operational performance improvements across an organization. 
• Ability to prioritize and balance multiple competing priorities within and across multiple projects at the same time. 
• Uphold company mission and values through accountability, innovation, integrity, quality, and teamwork.
• Support and comply with the company’s Quality Management System policies and procedures.
• Maintain regular and reliable attendance.
• Ability to act with an inclusion mindset and model these behaviors for the organization.
• Uphold company mission and values through accountability, innovation, integrity, quality, and teamwork.  
• Support and comply with the company’s Quality Management System policies and procedures.  
• Regular and reliable attendance.  
• Ability to work on a mobile device, tablet, or i