Project Manager (Short-Term Contract)

Essential Responsibilities

• Partner with internal and external stakeholders to define and monitor project timelines
• Ensure that projects remain on schedule and appropriately resourced
• Track project samples received, tested, and reported.
• Maintain accurate study records including documentation received and discrepancy / reconciliation activities
• Coordinate with Central Lab and/or Data Analytic group for Data Transfer Agreement setup and file transfer.
• Track Long Term Stability Timepoints
• Ensure great customer experience
• Maintain a strong working relationship and open communications with all departments, including Quality Control, Quality Assurance and Sample Management
• Prepare Sample Analysis worklists
• Support Sample Analysis Plan generation
• Support Quality review data submission
• Manage resource planning and project database systems
• Support Business Unit lead time management
• Manage revenue recognition activities for sponsor projects supported
• Proactively identify contract amendments required
• Support team scheduling
• Manage Client Specific Metrics and Tracking
• Support Operational Excellence Metrics
• Adhere to safety and compliance requirements

Minimum Preferred Qualifications: Skills

• Excellent oral and written communication skills
• High level of proficiency in Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, Outlook)
• Acute attention to detail
• Ability to coordinate multiple projects/tasks while still delivering high quality results under time constraints
• Strong organizational and project administration skills
• Excellent oral and written communication skills, and ability to successfully interact with key internal stakeholders and clients
• Experience working in a GxP environment preferred
• Familiarity with NetSuite

Education/ Experience:

• Bachelor's degree in life science, business administration, or related field with not less than four (4) years’ experience in a biotechnology project management or related field; or
• Masters’ degree in life science, business administration, or related field with not less than two (2) years’ experience in a biotechnology project management or related field
• Knowledge base in science with the relevant regulations for our industry
• Proficient in project management software (smartsheet preferred)
   

Supervision Received:

• Infrequent supervision and instructions
• Frequently exercises discretionary authority

Position Type and Expected Hours of Work:

• This is a full-time, 4-month contract position at 40 hours per week
• This role is not eligible for benefits
• Occasional weekend, holiday, and evening work required

Working Environment:

• Primarily office environment 
• Routinely uses standard office equipment such as computers, phones, photocopiers, and filing cabinets 

Physical Demands

• Ability to work in an upright and/or stationary position for up to eight (8) hours per day
• Repetitive hand movement of both hands with the ability to make fast, simple, repeated movements of the fingers, hands, and wrists to operate office equipment
• Occasional mobility needed
• Occasional crouching, stooping, with frequent bending and twisting of upper body and neck
• Light to moderate lifting and carrying (or otherwise moving) objects, including office supplies and laptop computer, with a maximum lift of 20 pounds
• Ability to access and use a variety of computer software
• Ability to communicate information and ideas so others will understand, with the ability to listen to and understand information and ideas presented through spoken words and sentences
• Frequently interacts with others to obtain or relate information to diverse groups
• Works independently with little guidance or reliance on oral or written instructions and plans work schedules to meet goals; requires multiple periods of intense concentration
• Performs a wide range of variable tasks as dictated by variable demands and changing conditions with little predictability as to the occurrence
• Ability to perform under stress and multi-task
• Regular and consistent attendance