POSITION SUMMARY:
The Senior Director, Program Management will drive the planning and execution of our product development roadmap, will support and grow a successful team-based corporate culture, and will manage a team of Program Managers.
PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Ensure execution of program deliverables, on time and on budget
- Lead the detailed planning of development timelines and resource requirements, highlighting trade-offs and co-dependencies
- Recruit, train, manage and develop a diverse team of Program Managers, who can each lead individual Program teams to success and grow within the organization
- Focus on developing high-performing cross-functional teams
- At the individual Program level, work with Program Managers to identify critical path, bottlenecks, dependencies, and major risks to the programs
- Implement training and best practices for the Program Management team, introduce process excellence across the organization to improve overall performance and empowerment of teams
- Track staffing across the R&D organization, in conjunction with functional managers
- Identify bottlenecks and risks across the organization, which add risk to the overall roadmap
- Communicate the corporate strategy and project priorities across the R&D organization, to ensure alignment of all teams and functions
- Measure and report key performance indicators (KPI) that track progress on the key deliverables, and communicate regularly to senior executive team
- Participate in and support strategic decision-making in the formal Strategic Planning Process (SPP) and also on an ongoing basis with regards to tradeoffs in the business
- Ensure adherence with the Quality Management System including the creation of documents and new processes
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- PhD or Master's degree in health sciences, including biology, chemistry or engineering
- Minimum of Bachelor's degree in Biology or a comparable educational background
- Minimum 8 years of Program Management leadership experience, with track record of success developing highly technical regulated products in the biotech industry, preferably IVD and molecular diagnostics
- Minimum 10 years of experience working within cross-functional scientific/R&D teams
- Experienced and inspiring team leader, with a track record of recruiting top talent
- Experienced with project management tools such as MS Project, Smartsheets or equivalent
- PMP certification or equivalent is required
- Strong knowledge of design control process
- Understanding of regulatory and compliance guidelines as they apply to the genetic testing industry such as CLIA, FDA and CE is highly desired
- Prior experience managing third party alliances and partnerships is desired
KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS, AND ABILITIES:
- Excellent interpersonal skills in addition to having the ability to effectively communicate within the project teams
- Clear and persuasive communicator, written and verbal, and careful listener with excellent facilitation skills
- Eagerness to roll up the sleeves and dive into details when necessary
- Very proactive and able to take substantial initiative. Ability to handle multiple complex projects while tracking all details and their completion
- Proven organizational skills and attention to detail
- Duties are typically performed in an office setting. This position requires the ability to use a computer keyboard, communicate over the telephone and read printed material.
- Duties may require working outside normal working hours (evenings and weekends) at times.
- Travel required for this position: No
Driven by the passion for elevating the science and utility of genetic testing, Natera is committed to helping families identify and manage genetic diseases. Natera is a rapidly-growing diagnostics company with proprietary bioinformatics and molecular technology for analyzing DNA. Our complex technology has been proven clinically and commercially in the prenatal testing space and we are actively researching its applications in the liquid biopsy space for developing products with oncology applications.
The Natera team consists of highly dedicated statisticians, geneticists, doctors, laboratory scientists, business professionals, software engineers and many other professionals from world-class institutions, who care deeply for our work and each other. When you join Natera, you'll work hard and grow quickly. Working alongside the elite of the industry, you'll be stretched and challenged, and take pride in being part of a company that is changing the landscape of genetic disease management.
WHAT WE OFFER
Competitive Benefits. Healthy catered lunches, Premium snacks and beverages, Onsite gym with cardio and weight-training equipment, Game room with satellite TV, Onsite dry cleaning and alteration service with pick-up and delivery, Employee-organized sport leagues, Happy hours and BBQs, Generous Employee Referral program.
For more information, visit www.natera.com.
Natera is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. We are committed to ensuring a diverse and inclusive workplace environment, and welcome people of different backgrounds, experiences, abilities and perspectives. Inclusive collaboration benefits our employees, our community and our patients, and is critical to our mission of changing the management of disease worldwide.
All qualified applicants are encouraged to apply, and will be considered without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, age, veteran status, disability or any other legally protected status. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with applicable laws.