Technical Project Manager

$99,840 - $120,723/Yr

System One - Seattle, WA

Full-time - Mid Level

Seattle, WA

Administrative and Support Services

About the position

As a Technical Project Manager at Joulé, you will play a pivotal role in driving key strategic initiatives within the bio tech and life sciences sectors. This position is based in Seattle, WA, and operates on a hybrid schedule from Monday to Friday, 8 AM to 5 PM. Your primary responsibility will be to partner with project, functional, and work stream leads to ensure the successful execution of multiple projects simultaneously. You will leverage your project management expertise to manage both standard and complex projects, ensuring that all objectives are met on time and within budget. In this role, you will facilitate the definition of project scope, goals, and deliverables, creating comprehensive project plans that encompass scope, work, resources, and scheduling. You will define the critical path for projects and collaborate with your team to manage bottlenecks and optimize operations. Your ability to translate strategic activities into digestible reports will be crucial for communicating with various levels of stakeholders, ensuring that everyone is aligned and informed. You will also be responsible for identifying and resolving issues, driving phase-appropriate risk mitigations, and offering viable solutions as challenges arise. Implementing appropriate project change control will be part of your duties, as will facilitating all project team meetings and attending related meetings to ensure alignment and identify potential risks and opportunities. Regular communication of project status to various leadership levels within the organization will be essential to keep all parties informed and engaged.

Responsibilities

• Partner with project, functional and work stream leads to successfully achieve objectives for key strategic initiatives
• Provide PM expertise for standard and complex projects, managing multiple projects in parallel
• Provide strong team leadership and drive to ensure execution on time and within budget
• Facilitate the definition of project scope, goals and deliverables
• Create project plans; scope, work, resources, scheduling, etc.
• Define critical path and work with team to manage bottlenecks and optimal operations
• Translate strategy and activities into digestible report outs with the appropriate detail for different levels of key stakeholders
• Identify and resolve issues and drive phase appropriate risk mitigations, offering viable solutions and opportunities as they arise
• Implement appropriate project change control
• Facilitate all project team meetings; attend related project team meetings as necessary to ensure alignment, identify blind-spots and risks, latent opportunities, and synergies across programs
• Develop and communicate status to CTD PMO, Project Leadership, Program Leadership, CTD Leadership and CTO Leadership

Requirements

• 2+ years' experience in bio tech/life sciences project management; cell and gene therapy experience preferred
• STEM Master's degree, bio-related discipline preferred
• Project management credentialing achieved or in progress preferred
• Proficiency with related software tools such as: MS Project, Office Timeline Pro, Smartsheet, MS PPT, MS Excel, SharePoint, etc.
• Strong knowledge of biopharma industry
• Familiarity/experience with GMP manufacturing, early phase biologics process development, experience/knowledge base of viral vectors (e.g. adeno-, retro-, lenti-) and gene editing raw materials preferred
• Excellent communication skills demonstrated via oral presentation and concise technical writing
• Ability to work cross-functionally, with matrixed teams; maintaining strong business partner relationships
• Excellent critical thinking, conflict resolution and problem-solving skills
• Possess the ability to adapt in a fast-paced, highly collaborative environment

Nice-to-haves

• Familiarity/experience with GMP manufacturing
• Experience/knowledge base of viral vectors (e.g. adeno-, retro-, lenti-) and gene editing raw materials

Benefits

• Health and welfare benefits coverage options including medical, dental, vision, spending accounts, life insurance, voluntary plans
• Participation in a 401(k) plan