Program Manager - Lifecycle Management

Job Summary

Hologic is seeking a Program Manager  responsible for managing a portfolio of lifecycle management projects from scoping and planning through completion. This role will manage and support cross-functional project teams within a matrixed organization, ensuring that project objectives, timelines, risks, and dependencies are effectively planned, tracked, and communicated.

The successful candidate will work closely with Marketing, Regional Sales, Service, R&D, Quality, Regulatory, and other functional partners align project priorities to business objectives and ensure project success. This role requires strong organization, communication, follow-through, and the ability to manage multiple priorities while escalating issues appropriately.

The Program Manager  will work on-site in Hologic’s San Diego office 5 days per week. 

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

The incumbent may be asked to perform other function-related activities in addition to the below-mentioned responsibilities as reasonably required by business needs. 

Key Responsibilities:

• Manage small- to medium-sized projects or defined workstreams within larger programs from initial scoping and planning through release.
• Lead the development and maintenance of project plans, schedules, milestones, deliverables, and resource plans.
• Coordinate cross-functional project activities to ensure alignment across all team members, functional leaders, and stakeholders.
• Track project status, risks, issues, action items, dependencies, and decisions; provide timely updates to project teams and management.
• Assist with identifying project risks and issues, supporting mitigation planning, and escalating concerns to management or senior program leaders as appropriate.
• Maintain accurate project documentation, meeting notes, schedules, dashboards, and status reports.
• Help ensure project execution is aligned with applicable internal processes and quality system requirements.
• Support continuous improvement by helping to build project plans into standard and repeatable processes, procedures, templates, and tools.

Leadership and Management:

• Help drive accountability for assigned tasks, deliverables, and timelines.
• Facilitate project team meetings, communicate expectations, document decisions, and follow up on action items.
• Build effective working relationships with team members and stakeholders across functional areas.
• Use a collaborative approach to resolve day-to-day project challenges and escalate complex issues appropriately.
• Demonstrate ownership of assigned projects while operating with guidance from management when needed.

Communication and Interpersonal Skills:

• Facilitate effective information flow across internal teams and stakeholders by communicating project status, risks, issues, and decisions clearly and accurately.
• Demonstrate strong meeting facilitation, follow-up, and documentation skills.
• Work effectively in a matrixed environment.
• Use sound judgment to determine when issues require escalation or additional leadership support.
• Maintain a professional, collaborative, and solutions-oriented communication style.

Project Execution and Problem-Solving:

• Apply foundational project management practices to support successful project execution.
• Identify project risks, dependencies, and blockers, and lead development of mitigation or recovery plans.
• Support decision-making by gathering information, organizing options, and communicating trade-offs and impacts to project teams and management.
• Demonstrate attention to detail and the ability to manage multiple project activities in a fast-paced environment.

Qualifications 

• Demonstrated capability to apply project management principles, tools, and techniques.
• Ability to manage project schedules, action items, risks, issues, and cross-functional communications.
• Strong organizational, follow-up, and documentation skills.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills.
• Ability to work effectively with cross-functional teams in a matrixed organization.
• Ability to operate with moderate supervision, escalating risks, issues, and decisions when appropriate.
• Familiarity with ISO and FDA quality system regulations preferred.

Education       

• BS degree in Science, Engineering, Computer Science, Business, or related field required.
• Project Management coursework or certification strongly desired (e.g., CAPM, PMP)

Experience

• Minimum of 2–5 years of experience in project management, project coordination, or a related functional role with project-planning and project-leadership experience.
• Experience coordinating cross-functional teams and tracking project deliverables, timelines, risks, and issues.
• Experience with Design Control strongly preferred.
• Experience in a regulated environment, including medical device, diagnostics, healthcare, or life sciences, preferred.