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.

Project Manager / Senior Project Manager

This position will be responsible for providing Project Management expertise and support to GRAIL teams working at the intersection of the R&D and operations functions. Candidate will work on projects in both areas to ensure all project achievements and deliverables are met, and that activities are well carriead out and handled. Responsibilities include the day-to-day planning, coordinating and tracking of critical activities including management of cross-functional projects working with product development, operations and other functional groups. Candidate will partner with functional and Life Cycle team leaders to optimize teams’ effectiveness, decision making, communication and apply robust negotiating skills to facilitate integrated decision making.

You will:

• Create and drives timelines to keep project(s) on schedule. 
• Establish and maintain functionally coordinated project timeline
• Apply tracking tools to enable effective project management across various functional areas.
• Schedule, organize, and drive project team meeting(s): prepare and distribute agendas/minutes; track action items, and raise areas of risk to the appropriate management entity.
• Facilitate communication of sub-team issues and outcomes to the Core Team/Project team leadership.
• Handle the interfaces between functional areas and ensure effective handoff and communication between department functions to complete meaningful project landmarks.
• Works with project leaders and/or SME’s to prepare status reports, specific project updates, or scenarios.
• Handle document review processes to support functional activities and other key project results.
• Engage with quality and regulatory functions to ensure operational planning and execution meets encouraged standards
• Collaborate with Product Development and Operations Leadership/teams to define project-related budget assumptions for annual operating plan. 

Your background should include

• This job requires a combination of analytical, organizational and interpersonal skills. Candidate will have a blend of project management, laboratory operations and scientific knowledge in the medical diagnostics industry. To perform this job optimally, an individual will perform each crucial duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. 
• Minimum of a BA/BS in a scientific field is required. An advanced degree (PhD, MS, MBA, MD) is desirable in a subject area related to drug development or business.
• Candidate will have at least 3-5 years multidisciplinary experience in the device/diagnostic/biotech/pharmaceutical industry, with 1-3 years direct project management in supporting validation studies, and knowledge of one or more laboratory operations related functions e.g. technical operations, supply chain, MSAT, engineering
• Experience working under design control




Key Attributes for a successful candidate:




• Proactive/not passive: Motivated to tackle problems and create/handle 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 shift 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 difficult challenges with poise and self-assurance. For example, comfortable 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 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.