What you’ll do at Grail;

• Effectively manage projects: define project objectives, requirements, and assumptions necessary to develop project charter and project plans.
• Plan and manage the project scope, schedule, and budget to fulfill objectives and satisfy project requirements and strategy.
• Develop, drive, and maintain integrated project plans, and timelines aligning project tactics with project strategy.
• Lead, coordinate, facilitate, and motivate all associated project resources to gain alignment on project goals and deliverables.
• Lead risk management within project teams, ensuring risks have appropriate mitigation and contingency plans.
• Facilitate and lead effective project meetings and workshops, manage change, and conflict, and develop resource planning estimates to manage project workload and productivity. Create agenda topics, facilitate project/team meetings, and write/review meeting minutes.
• Work with team lead and cross-functional team members to define project scope, objectives and lead the preparation of the project plan. This will require integrating scope, budget, input from internal stakeholders and consultants.
• Identify and anticipate project risks and opportunities, resource constraints, and conflicts that could impact project timelines. Proactively develop mitigation/maximization plans.
• Create/contribute to reporting system that collects progress on objectives, tactics, KPIs, and priorities to support articulation of the value Medical Affairs brings to the organization.
• Provide project status updates as input for integration with department reporting system for interactive data analytics.

The right stuff - Preferred Qualifications;

• Bachelor’s degree in a scientific field with 5-7+ years operations management experience in pharmaceutical or biotechnology industry. PMP certification is highly desired. Prior small biotech/startup experience is a plus.
• Independently motivated, excel at driving execution.
• Demonstrated ability to work effectively in a team setting, including experience building and leading projects, accomplishing goals, etc.
• Strong collaboration and problem-solving skills; able to establish good working relationships with employees at all levels, resolve conflict and provide feedback, and to devise and implement creative solutions to problems.
• Honed interpersonal, organizational, written, and verbal communication skills, and the ability to work collaboratively in a team environment; demonstrated ability to speak up appropriately and to raise issues to teams and management.
• Highly organized with attention to detail.
• Experience with project software and data visualization tools (e.g., Tableau) is required.
• Excellent Google slide, Google doc, collaboration systems and Google office skills (or similar). in Office, Project, and other productivity tools is a plus.