Program Manager

Category:

Life Science

Employment Type:

Direct Hire

Reference:

BH-384743

Yoh Life Sciences
is hiring for a Program Manager
in Carlsbad, CA. The Program Manager is accountable for project scope development, creating comprehensive schedules, monitoring deliverables and milestones, contributing to feasibility studies, and arranging internal colleagues and subject matter experts to deliver on-time and on-budget for domestic and international customers.

Industry: Biopharmaceuticals
Location: Carlsbad, CA
Type: Direct Hire
Shift:
M-F 8-5pm

Responsibilities and Duties

• Lead, build and oversee multiple cross-functional project teams of representatives from relevant functions; chair internal and customer project teams
• Develop full-scale project plans / schedules with work breakdown structure; define, track, and maintain accountability for milestones, schedules, and timelines
• Responsible for overall project knowledge and execution according to agreed upon deliverables and timelines
• Identify and manage project dependencies and critical path and go / no-go decisions
• Perform risk assessments and propose risk mitigation strategies for projects
• Prepare weekly / monthly reports, agendas, meeting minutes, and presentations
• Communicate all project issues / needs to both internal and external stakeholders, and provide frequent presentations on project status to Executive Management
• Customer contact on all project related issues and communication; ensure appropriate and timely communication is maintained
• Evaluate, highlight, and escalate unresolved issues, potential obstacles, and resource constraints to supervisor and / or key stakeholders
• Strategic portfolio overview within Commercial/Program Management Organization
• Identify, contribute to, and lead internal initiatives for continuous improvement of business processes, project delivery and profitability
• Change management and training of colleagues within and outside the department aimed at improving performance on projects

• This position is onsite in Carlsbad and will require individuals to live locally.
• Bachelor's degree in a scientific related discipline (BSc / MSc / B Eng / MEng Chemistry / Molecular Biology / Engineering or relevant discipline; project Management accreditation (PMP preferred).
• 2 - 4 years of project management experience (life science CMO / CDMO preferred); Strong working knowledge of laboratory techniques and manufacturing.
• Experience with ERP software (Netsuite preferred), MS Office (MS Excel a must), MS Project (or similar Project Management platforms such as Jira) and MasterControl (or similar QMS)