Clinical Project Manager (Life Sciences Experience - Remote)

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

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 project timelines impacting multiple products and sites.
• Serve as point of contact and or project lead between operations and relevant stakeholders/teams.
• Determine and implement the most effective ways to create and execute production plans for Guardant Health’s products.
• Support logistics tasks and coordination of activities.
• Ability to solve practical problems and deal with a variety of concrete variables in situations where only limited standardization exists.
• Facilitate discussions between Technical Development and Biopharma Teams on execution plans for non-standard sample types, if applicable 
• Communicate progress towards quarterly goals through weekly updates.
• Guide cross functional teams with next steps.
• 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.
• Understand operational project risks and escalate appropriately.

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, continuous improvement 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 and Microsoft Office and Tableau.

Work Environment:

• Hours and days may vary depending on operational needs;
• Standing or sitting for long periods of time may be necessary;
• May be exposed to hazardous materials, blood specimens and instruments with moving parts, heating or freezing elements and high-speed centrifugation;
• Manual and repetitive pipetting may be necessary; and
• Some lifting (up to 25 pounds) may be necessary.

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 tea