Project Manager

Project Manager (Associate Director-level)

Pay: $100 - $115.11 per hour

Duration: 6 months

Location: Hybrid Position - Foster City - 3 days/week (T,W,Th) Local Candidates Only.

Education & Experience Requirements:

• 10+ years of relevant experience and a BS in science; 8+ years of relevant experience and a MS or MBA; or 4+ years of relevant experience and a PhD in a scientific field or a PharmD, DVM or MD degree.
• Experience should include 5 years of participation in cross-functional project management activities.
• A scientific background is preferred.

Specific Job Responsibilities:

• Responsible for managing one complex or two less complex project teams.
• Works in partnership with project leaders to ensure timely, efficient, and effective meetings, and to ensure adequate progress on team activities between meetings.
• Co-Chairs Project Team meetings and is responsible for coordinating complex team operations and communications.
• Directs project communications and ensures that all project customers are fully informed and knowledgeable of project activities and their status.
• Organizes Project Management support for various functional areas on the Project, attends sub-team meetings; organizes ad hoc working groups.
• Ensures that Development Plans integrate timing, scope and resources.
• Proposes and implements plans to resolve such issues and execute corrective actions.
• Manages project data (including timelines) in G.Plan (Planisware) and works with other project managers to align and validate data.
• May author sections of Project Team documents.
• Organizes preparation of high-quality documents for review by governance committees in collaboration with the project team and supports the Development Project Team (or Program Strategy Team) at Governance meetings.

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