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About the Role

This role involves leading and facilitating project meetings, generating meeting minutes, and tracking action items to ensure successful project execution. The position requires coordinating strategy, developing project plans, and collaborating with internal and external stakeholders to achieve project milestones. The role also includes proactive issue identification, developing action plans, communicating progress to leadership, and working with R&D teams on SOPs and experimental results.

Responsibilities

Lead and facilitate project meetings with a structure and agenda engineered for successful execution.
Generate and disseminate meeting minutes capturing key decisions, open issues, and action items.
Follow up on task and action item execution, updating project documentation accordingly.
Coordinate strategy to meet project business objectives.
Collaborate with team members to develop detailed project plans.
Interface with internal and external stakeholders to ensure successful achievement of project milestones.
Proactively identify issues, concerns, or challenges of assigned projects.
Develop action plans to address open issues, including escalation to key partners and stakeholders.
Regularly communicate project progress to senior leadership.
Work with the research and development team to develop SOPs.
Supply and monitor documentation of experimental results.
Track key critical reagent usage and performance metrics, delivering actionable reports to optimize team workflows and resource allocation.
Facilitate the generation and continuous tracking of quarterly goals (OKRs) to maintain alignment across departments.
Work with senior management to grow and manage the project management group as the company expands.

Requirements

BS in Chemistry, Biology, or a related field.
5+ years of project management in a relevant area with demonstrated success.
PMP Certification desired.
Excellent communication skills with the ability to work effectively with a wide range of contributors.
Understanding of DNA synthesis and/or sequencing expected.
Experience with Asana, Project, or similar project management software desired.
Ideally has experience with Confluence, along with LIMS and MES systems.
Experience with facilities and laboratory construction project management is a plus.
Self-starter capable of taking basic directions and deadlines to develop a project plan, including setting goals and milestones.
Proven management experience with a track record of leading high-performing teams desired.
Strategic relationship-builder with a talent for proactive problem identification and resolution.
Fostered a collaborative team culture, readily stepping outside core responsibilities to ensure collective success.

Skills

Project Management
Meeting Facilitation
Minute Taking
Action Item Tracking
Project Planning
Stakeholder Management
Problem Identification
Problem Resolution
Communication
Collaboration
DNA Synthesis
DNA Sequencing
Asana
Microsoft Project
Confluence
LIMS
MES
Team Leadership
Strategic Relationship Building

Experience Level

5+ years of project management experience

Education Level

BS in Chemistry, Biology, or a related field