GRAIL is a healthcare company whose mission is to detect cancer early, when it can be cured. GRAIL is focused on alleviating the global burden of cancer by developing pioneering technology to detect and identify multiple deadly cancer types early. The company is using the power of next-generation sequencing, population-scale clinical studies, and state-of-the-art computer science and data science to enhance the scientific understanding of cancer biology, and to develop its multi-cancer early detection blood test. GRAIL is headquartered in Menlo Park, CA with locations in Washington, D.C., North Carolina, and the United Kingdom. GRAIL, LLC is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Illumina, Inc. (NASDAQ:ILMN). For more information, please visit www.grail.com.

This position will provide project management expertise to GRAIL’s Billing and Finance teams, ensuring all, project landmarks and results are met and that activities are well completed and handled. This role will work with collaborators through Joint Project Team(s), including Billing, Finance, Compliance, Commercial, Product, Software, and Operations collaborators. Will partner with product/project management and Finance/Billing team members to optimize team efficiency and decision making, facilitate team building and communication. The candidate will be personable as the role will require interactions with teams, customers and vendors.

You will:

• Establish and maintain functionally coordinated project timeline and other tracking tools to enable accurate project management across functional areas
• Schedule, coordinate, and drive team meeting(s): prepare and distribute agendas/minutes; supervise action items, and call out areas of concern to the management entity
• Facilitate communication of status updates, issues, and outcomes to the Finance Team leadership
• Lead the interfaces between functional areas, focused on scalable billing functions (including benefit investigations, prior authorizations, insurance claims submissions, appeals, patient and client billing), and ensure effective handoff and communication between teams to complete meaningful project landmarks. 
• Handle resources, including timelines and results with other Project Team managers and functional heads.
• Serve as liaison between GRAIL and any external third party billing partners, as needed, to develop joint workflows, establish successful relationships, communicate requirements internally and externally, and shepherd key results and milestones.

Your Background Includes:

• Minimum of a BA/BS in a scientific field is required, while an advanced degree is desirable in a subject area related to device, diagnostic, and/or drug development.
• The ideal candidate will have ~10 years multi-disciplinary experience in the device/diagnostic/biotech industry, with 3-5 years of direct project management experience on interdisciplinary or cross functional product development teams focused on billing operations.
• Experience interacting with Compliance and Regulatory teams in the development of billing processes is desired.
• Project Management Certification (PMP or equivalent) is a plus.
• The ideal candidate will also be familiar with the relevant domains of laboratory operations, especially as it relates to billing activities (e.g. benefit investigations, prior authorizations, insurance claims submissions, appeals, patient and client billing). 
• Previous experience working with corporate partners or acting as a liaison is required.
• Experience working under design control and in the oncology space highly desired.

Your background should include:

• Minimum of a BA/BS in a scientific field is required, while an advanced degree is desirable in a subject area related to device, diagnostic, and/or drug development.
• Candidate will have ~10 years multi-disciplinary experience in the device/diagnostic/biotech industry, with 3-5 years of direct project management experience on interdisciplinary or cross functional product development teams focused on billing operations.
• Experience interacting with Compliance and Regulatory teams in the development of billing processes is desired.
• Project Management Certification (PMP or equivalent) is a plus.
• Will also be familiar with the relevant domains of laboratory operations, especially as it relates to billing activities (e.g. benefit investigations, prior authorizations, insurance claims submissions, appeals, patient and client billing). 
• Previous experience working with corporate partners or acting as a liaison is required.
• Experience working under design control and in the oncology space helpful.




Key Attributes for a successful candidate:

• Excellent interpersonal skills, ability to develop important relationships with customers and key stakeholders, good problem solving skills 
• Results and detail-oriented; self-motivated, ability to work with minimal direction
• Proactive/not passive: Motivated to tackle problems and build situations to move forward while keeping the whole team intact through positive energy.
• Communication: Can distill sophisticated scenarios/ideas into clear messages and next steps to a broad audience
• Adaptive: Can adjust quickly to new insights, direction and process while being grounded in defining what success looks like.
• "Edge": Comfortable in tough situations, can be relied on in tense circumstances, and will face challenges with tact and self-assurance. For example, influencing decision-making of others internally, across functions/team, and at any level.
• GRAIL is an Equal Employment Office and Affirmative Action Employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, disability or any other legally protected status. We will reasonably accommodate all individuals with disabilities so that they can participate in the job application or interview process, to perform crucial job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.
• Following extensive monitoring, research, consideration of business implications, and advice from internal and external experts, GRAIL has made the decision to require all U.S. employees receive the COVID-19 vaccines as a condition of employment. “Full vaccination” is defined as two weeks after both doses of a two-dose vaccine or two weeks since a single-dose vaccine has been administered. Anyone unable to be vaccinated, either because of a sincerely held religious belief or a medical condition or disability that prevents them from being vaccinated, can request a reasonable accommodation.

GRAIL is an Equal Employment Office and Affirmative Action Employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, disability or any other legally protected status. We will reasonably accommodate all individuals with disabilities so that they can participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.

Following extensive monitoring, research, consideration of business implications, and advice from internal and external experts, GRAIL has made the decision to require all U.S. employees receive the COVID-19 vaccines as a condition of employment. “Full vaccination” is defined as two weeks after both doses of a two-dose vaccine or two weeks since a single-dose vaccine has been administered. Anyone unable to be vaccinated, either because of a sincerely held religious belief or a medical condition or disability that prevents them from being vaccinated, can request a reasonable accommodation.