Program Manager-Food Safety and Animal Health
– Austin, TX
Major responsibilities:
The Program Manager ensures
attainment of product and business goals by developing and driving project
plans, leading tradeoff decisions, negotiating for resources, and by
actively coordinating cross-functional activity within established project
timelines and budgets. Focus will be on product life-cycle management and
product commercialization of both regulated and non-regulated products
supporting the Animal Health, Food Safety and related Industrial Testing
applied sciences industries.Act as a
process steward and mentor for project team members related to our Product
Commercialization Process (PCP), to assure alignment with quality standards
and regulatory requirements.
Responsibilities:
· Manage all
phases of product commercialization: coordinate resolution to quality and
support issues, program costs and scheduling, raising and addressing budget
and scheduling issues appropriately when resource conflicts arise.
· Develop and
aggressively drive overall program timelines and budgets in coordination
with other departments/teams.
· Act as the
key communicator and point of contact related to your projects: act as a
liaison to relay critical information between departments/teams involved in
the product development process to maintain project progress according to
plan, and play a critical role in communicating project status to senior
management within and outside the business groups.
· Develop and
manage business contingency plans and manage business implications of
identified risks. Partner cross-functionally to remove obstacles.
· Partner with
Product Management and field staff to execute worldwide launch plans;
facilitate transfer to manufacturing, ensure successful completion of
validation, facilitate world-wide training and supporting planning and
completion.
· Partner with
R&D, and potentially external 3rd party service and product
providers, to drive the innovation needed to assure a competitive market
position and differentiation in the market.
· Obtain
detailed product specifications and resource allocations from appropriate
functional groups for incorporation into the larger program scope.
Soft Skills &
Behaviors:
Strong leadership skills
particularly the ability to set goals & objectives and influence stakeholders
in other functions over whom the Program Manager has no direct managing
authority. The candidate must be a highly motivated and results oriented,
able to complete tasks by leveraging relationships and establishing clear
alignment goals.
Project Management
skills:
· Experienced
and skilled in all phases of a project, with emphasis in initiating/planning
to assure solid plans are in place.
· Proven track
record in identifying improvement needs and proactively developing action
plans to address.
· Experienced
using standard project management tools, like MS Project and effective in
actively monitoring project execution to assure meeting on-time and on-scope
targets.
· Analytic
skills, especially the ability to generate alternative solutions and manage
risk by driving criteria for trade-off decisions, are key
for this role.
· Experienced
in managing large and small multi-disciplinary projects.
· May manage
more than one project at a time and must be able to balance and multi-task
accordingly.
· Exceptional
communication skills including relationship building, conflict resolution,
and presentation; able to convey critical needs and milestones across all
stakeholders in a timely manner.
· Willingness
to be flexible and adaptable in a complex, matrixed
environment.
Qualifications &
Experience:
· Bachelor’s
degree (B.S./B.A.) minimum, preferably in a
scientific discipline (e.g. biology, chemistry, engineering).
· Minimum of 5
years of program management & product development, preferably in life
sciences/biotechnology.
· Demonstrated
project management best practice experience and stage-gate product
development process experience.
· Although PMP
certification is highly valued, demonstrated competency and experience is
more important.
Life Technologies is proud to be an
Affirmative Action/ Equal Opportunity Employer committed to hiring a diverse
and inclusive workforce.
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