By joining Bio-Techne, you’ll join a company with a powerful and positive purpose of enabling cutting-edge research in Life Sciences and Clinical Diagnostics. Bio-Techne, and all of its brands, provides tools for researchers to further treat and prevent disease worldwide.
Pay Range:
$87,600.00 - $144,000.00Position Summary:
As a Senior Project Manager supporting GMP Protein Manufacturing within our Advanced Cell Systems portfolio, you’ll play a pivotal role in driving strategic, high-impact projects that enable our customers towards innovation and life-changing breakthroughs. This role offers the opportunity of managing multiple projects of differing types and scopes. You will play a crucial role in planning, executing, and closing projects while ensuring that they meet all objectives within scope, time, and budget constraints.
We’re looking for a dynamic, detail-oriented leader who thrives in a fast-paced, collaborative environment – someone with strong leadership skills, exceptional organizational abilities, and a keen eye for detail.
In addition to base salary, this position is eligible to receive a target annual cash bonus based on individual and company performance, in accordance with company policy.
Key Responsibilities:
- Define the scope, goals, deliverables, and roadblocks of projects in collaboration with senior management and relevant project stakeholders.
- Manages and executes multiple projects.
- Create a detailed schedule which identifies and sequences the activities needed to successfully complete the project.
- Execute the project according to the project schedule by closely monitoring timelines, identifying potential delays, and implementing corrective actions as needed.
- Establish a communication schedule to update stakeholders including appropriate staff in the organization on the progress of the project.
- Ensure that the project deliverables are on time, within budget and at the required level of quality.
- Evaluate the outcomes of the project as established during the planning phase
- Facilitate and coordinate project meetings, communication with external partners and records (minutes, communication with stakeholders).
- Maintain clear and open communication with all project stakeholders, ensuring they are informed of project progress, challenges and milestones.
- Provide direction and support to project team to eliminate roadblocks, acquire resources, and overcome schedule constraints
- Present reports defining project progress, problems and solutions
- Anticipate project roadblocks and engage relevant resources to address
- Implement and manage project changes and interventions to achieve project output
- Charter, manage and rescue more challenging projects where the scope, timelines, and available resources are ill-defined.
- Coach and develop other project managers.
- Responsible for evaluating effectiveness and updating formal procedures for project management processes at one or more sites.
OCCASIONAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
- Manage project budget.
- Manage Project Managers on ongoing projects and development.
Job Qualifications
Education and Experience:
- Bachelor’s Degree in a life sciences relevant field (e.g., Biotechnology, Chemistry, Engineering) required
- At least 5 years of project management experience or similar experience leading project teams in the Life Science, Medical Device or related industry is required
- Experience working in an ISO 9001, GMP, ISO 13485 compliant environment and willingness to manage the project according to the requirements of these standards and Bio-Techne internal requirements
Preferred Qualifications and Experience:
- PMP Certification
- An advanced degree in biochemistry, biology, chemistry, or a related STEM field.
Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:
- Ability to work independently with limited direction.
- Proven ability to interact with more senior functional managers.
- Proficiency in the use of computers for:
- Proficiency in:
- Project scheduling software (such as Smartsheet, Microsoft Project, etc.)
- Simple accounting
- Data base management
- Spreadsheets
- Standard Office software (e.g. Microsoft Office)
- Managing in-person, hybrid, and online meetings
- Communicate Effectively: Speak, listen and write in a clear, thorough and timely manner using appropriate and effective communication tools and techniques within a diverse cross-functional team.
- Foster Teamwork: Work cooperatively and effectively with others to set goals, resolve problems, and make decisions that enhance project effectiveness.
- Lead: Positively influence others to achieve results that are in the best interest of the organization.
- Make Decisions: Assess situations to determine the importance, urgency and risks, and make clear decisions which are timely and in the best interests of the organization.
- Organize: Set priorities, develop a work schedule, monitor progress towards goals, and track details/data/information/activities.
- Plan: Determine strategies to move the project forward, create and implement actions to minimize delays, and anticipate requirements/actions to maintain schedule.
- Solve Problems: Working with the Project Team, assess problem situations to identify causes, gather and process relevant information, generate possible solutions, and make recommendations that meet company goals.
Why Join Bio-Techne:
- We offer competitive insurance benefits starting on day one: medical, dental, vision, life, short-term disability, long-term disability, pet, and legal and ID shield.
- We invest in our employees’ financial futures through 401k plans, an employee stock purchase plan (ESPP), Health Saving Account (HSA), Flexible Spending Account (FSA), and Dependent Care FSA.
- We empower our employees develop their careers through mentorship, promotional opportunities, training and development, tuition reimbursement, internship programs, and more.
- We offer employee resource groups, volunteer paid time off, employee events, and charity drives to build a culture of caring and belonging.
- We offer an accrued leave policy with paid holidays, paid time off, and paid parental leave.
- We foster a culture of empowerment and innovation, where employees feel valued and encouraged to bring their new ideas to the table.
Bio-Techne is an E-Verify Employer in the United States.
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.
To protect the interests of all, Bio-Techne will not accept unsolicited resumes from any source other than a candidate application. Any unsolicited resumes sent to Bio-Techne will be considered Bio-Techne property.
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What We Do
Bio-Techne Corporation (NASDAQ: TECH) is a leading developer and manufacturer of high-quality purified proteins and reagent solutions - notably cytokines and growth factors, antibodies, immunoassays, biologically active small molecule compounds, tissue culture reagents, and cell and gene therapy workflow solutions including T-Cell activation technologies. Bio-Techne’s portfolio also includes protein analysis solutions, sold under the ProteinSimple brand name, that offer researchers efficient and streamlined options for automated Western blot and multiplexed ELISA workflow. These reagent and protein analysis solutions are sold to biomedical researchers, as well as clinical research laboratories, and constitute the Protein Sciences Segment.
Bio-Techne also develops and manufactures diagnostic products including FDA-regulated controls, calibrators, blood gas and clinical chemistry controls, and other reagents for OEM and clinical customers. Bio-Techne’s genomic tools include advanced tissue-based in situ hybridization assays (ISH) for research and clinical use, sold under the ACD brand, as well as a portfolio of clinical molecular diagnostic oncology assays including the ExoDx®Prostate (IntelliScore) test (EPI) for prostate cancer diagnosis. These diagnostic and genomic products comprise Bio-Techne’s Diagnostics and Genomics Segment.
Bio-Techne products are integral components of scientific investigations into biological processes and molecular diagnostics, revealing the nature, diagnosis, etiology and progression of specific diseases. They aid in drug discovery efforts and provide the means for accurate clinical tests and diagnoses. With thousands of products in its portfolio, Bio-Techne generated approximately $714 million in net sales in fiscal 2019 and has over 2,200 employees worldwide.
