Project Manager - Clinical Laboratory

The Project Manager is responsible for planning, directing, coordinating activities, and leading cross-functional strategic initiatives while working with the business to follow best practices to ensure their projects meet business objectives and are accomplished on time and within budget.  This role helps ensure that project goals are accomplished and in line with business objectives.

This position is onsite 5 days a week in Madison, WI.

Essential Duties

Include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Support Program Manager and leadership to plan, track, and manage projects to support the needs of the business.

• Act as a business partner to directly or indirectly lead cross-functional teams to execute on project tasks to include effective creation and management of timelines, budgets, resources, risks, interdependencies, and project objectives.

• Follow established project management practices, including management of scope, requirements, issues, and risks.

• Consult with project sponsors and reviews project proposals to determine goals, time frame, funding, allotment of resources and procedures for accomplishing projects.

• Direct and coordinate responsibilities and scope of authority to team members.

• Troubleshoot problems associated with coordination, development, or design of projects.

• Escalate issues when critical risks arise and maintain pulse with project activities to ensure progress.

• Monitor and prepare status reports on project deliverables and any deviation from project plan.

• Advises on the right level of governance by project and program.

• Coach and facilitate teams on project management processes, tools and techniques, such as process maps, value stream maps and root cause analyses.

• Establish and maintain positive relationships with stakeholders and team members.

• Demonstrated ability to prioritize and balance multiple competing priorities within and across multiple projects at the same time.

• Demonstrated success with oral and written communications/presentations, influence and persuasion, results orientation, facilitation, and teamwork skills across multiple audiences.

• Ability to work within a matrix management organization.

• Uphold company mission and values through accountability, innovation, integrity, quality, and teamwork.

• Support and comply with the company’s Quality Management System policies and procedures.

• Regular and reliable attendance.

• Ability to work designated schedule.

• Ability to work on a mobile device, tablet, or in front of a computer screen and/or perform typing for approximately 90% of a typical working day.

• Ability and means to travel between local locations.

• Ability to travel 10% of working time away from work location, may include overnight/weekend travel.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or High School Degree/General Education Degree and 4 additional years of experience as outlined in the essential duties in lieu of Bachelor’s Degree.

• 5+ years of progressive, broad-based project experience.

• 3+ years leading projects or teams.

• Ability to effectively collaborate as a part of a team and operate independently across projects based on project complexity and needs.

• Proficiency with MS Project, MS Visio, Excel and PowerPoint.

• Authorization to work in the United States without sponsorship.

• Demonstrated ability to perform the Essential Duties of the position with or without accommodation.

Preferred Qualifications

• PMI Project Management Certification.

• Experience working in human resources.