Project Specialist - On-Market Support

Job Summary

Hologic is seeking a Project Specialist responsible for supporting the On Market Support team and the set of projects that ensure continuity and quality of our on-market diagnostic product portfolio.

The Specialist 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:

• Support a more senior project leader on projects with a broad cross-functional and/or technical scope.
• Assist in maintaining schedules, resource plans, project budgets, and project documentation.
• Assist in tracking, managing, and facilitating the resolution of project risks and issues.
• Interact with team members, including senior-level staff, in driving the completion of deliverables.
• Communicate status of project deliverables to project leaders, team members, and management.
• Coordinate review meetings and deliverables, ensuring that action items are resolved and documented.
• Coordinate activities related to cross-functional resource planning
• Help to maintain accurate project documentation, meeting notes, schedules, dashboards, and status reports.
• Support preparation for project reviews and leadership decision meetings
• Support continuous improvement of project management practices, templates, and tools.
• Demonstrate attention to detail and the ability to manage multiple project activities in a fast-paced environment.
• Communicate project status, risks, and issues clearly and accurately to team members and managers.
• Demonstrate strong follow-up, and documentation skills.
• Work effectively in a cross-functional environment with diverse team members and stakeholders.
• Use sound judgment to determine when issues require escalation or additional leadership support.
• Maintain a professional, collaborative, and solutions-oriented communication style.
• Complete other duties as assigned.

Qualifications 

• Knowledge of core principles in project management and proficient with the use of project management tools (e.g., MS Project, Smartsheet, JIRA, Asana). 
• Ability to manage project schedules, action items, risks, issues, and cross-functional communications.
• Strong organizational, follow-up, and documentation skills.
• Effective presentation and meeting skills with a wide variety of colleagues and collaborators. 
• Demonstrates good judgement in selecting methods and techniques for obtaining solutions.
• Demonstrated collaboration skills and ability to build cross-functional relationships.
• A strong interest in delivering business value to the organization. 
• Excellent organization skills and attention to detail
• Strong verbal and written communication skills.

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

• 2-5 years of related work experience with at least 1 year in project coordination or management
• Experience coordinating cross-functional teams and tracking project deliverables, timelines, risks, and issues.
• Experience with Design Control preferred.
• Experience in a regulated environment, including medical device, diagnostics, healthcare, or life sciences, preferred.