Job Title: Precision Medicine Program Manager (PM)
Location: 100% Remote - West Coast/Pacific Time preferred
Duration: 6 Months (Possibility of extension depending upon business requirements and performance)
Notes:
- Candidates in other U.S. time zones may be considered if they can support Pacific Time working hours as needed.
- Position will support Precision Medicine programs focused on obesity and related diseases and cardiovascular disease.
- Primary focus will be supporting clinical development programs and biomarker strategy/execution.
- This is a hands-on program/project management role requiring someone who can contribute quickly and work with limited oversight.
Top 3 Must Have Skill Sets:
1. Clinical development and scientific foundation
Strong clinical operations experience within biotech/pharma, supported by a scientific background. Able to understand biomarker, translational, and clinical-development activities and translate scientific strategy into practical execution plans.
2. Proactive program management and execution
Highly motivated, organized, and comfortable managing multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment. Demonstrates a "can-do" mindset, takes ownership of complex or unfamiliar work, anticipates risks, and drives timelines, deliverables, budgets, and follow-up actions to completion.
3. Collaborative, adaptable team leadership
Positive, eager-to-learn team contributor who communicates clearly and works effectively across functions. Comfortable influencing without direct authority, coordinating diverse stakeholders, and adapting quickly as program priorities or scientific assumptions evolve.
What you will do:
- Let's do this. Let's change the world through Precision Medicine!
- In this vital role within the Precision Medicine Unit, the Precision Medicine Program Manager (PM) works closely with the Precision Medicine Leads (PMLs) and Global Biomarker Leads (GBLs) to advance the development and execution of Precision Medicine plans.
- Additionally, you will partner with cross functional senior stakeholders and teams across Research & Development to track and manage the development of translational and reverse translational strategies.
Responsibilities:
- Serve as the main collaborator of the PMed Teams by supporting the strategic planning, monitor the execution of high quality, integrated cross-functional PMed Plans in support of the overall asset strategy & value.
- Manage research collaborations and reverse translational initiatives in collaboration with the research and development organization along with any external collaborators identified.
- Responsible for developing the PMED budget for each program and monitoring team expenses to ensure alignment with financial goals.
- Accountable for creating and maintaining execution timelines to track team progress and promptly identify any deviations from the approved plan.
- Lead PMT meetings, ensuring that agendas are clearly defined, meeting minutes are accurately recorded, and outcomes are effectively reflected in both the timeline and budget.
- Work closely with the Head of PMO Team to escalate any risks/issues and develop mitigation strategies.
- Serve as single point of contact for operationalizing biomarker strategy, facilitating with other cross functional stakeholders like biospecimen management, data management, vendor management etc., associated with one or more clinical programs.
- Apply PM best practices in the planning, development, initiation, execution, QA/QC, and closing of projects while driving trade-off / decision making to ensure flawless execution
- Support content creation with PML and Head of PMO in preparation to cross-functional meetings, such as technical reviews, Portal Reviews, Governances, etc.
- Serve as an integrator to the Product Teams/Clinical Study Teams while ensuring connectivity with (inputs to/from) research leadership, early clinical and platform functions
- Drive risk management and effective communication plans, to include asset-wide impacts
- Conduct critical path analysis (challenging assumptions, hold cross-functional team members accountable); recognize and communicate inflection points w/ mitigation strategies
- Ensure on time delivery; drive adherence to plan (time, budget and scope); challenge delays with 'why not' and propose mitigations; quickly escalate changes to plan
- Ability to lead cross functional teams and pivot quickly with changes in scientific or strategic assumptions based on internal / external data impacting the program
- Meeting effectiveness, MS Teams/Smartsheet maintenance, proper and timely escalation of issues to Head of Discovery Biomarkers and PMO
What we expect of you:
- We are all different, yet we all use our unique contributions to serve patients.
- The PMed Program Manager professional we seek is experienced, professional, dynamic, goal-oriented and results-driven with these qualifications:
Basic Qualifications:
- PhD and/or Master's degree and 2 years of relevant PM experience OR
- Bachelor's degree and 4 years of relevant PM experience OR
- Associate's degree and 6 years of relevant PM experience
Preferred Qualifications:
- Technical/scientific background with 6+ years industry and/or academic experience
- Prior pharma/consulting and/or drug development experience, specifically in research & clinical development
- Program and project management skills with experience in a healthcare-related environment, operationalizing strategic initiatives, including cross-functional strategic planning, development of integrated plans, monitoring and driving execution to plan
- Emotional intelligence skills including influencing without authority and navigating within a matrix environment.
- Experience using Project Management and AI/ML tools, methodologies, practices and infrastructure, as related to the Biopharmaceutical Industry
- Highly experienced on MS Suite tools (PowerPoint, Excel, etc.) and project management software such as Smartsheet, Planisware, SharePoint, etc.
- Finance and budget management experience
- Business process and systems management, Project planning and management (PMP preferred)
- Knowledge of SOPs, good clinical practices and regulatory requirements
- Proven ability to lead, manage, and motivate others in a complex, multi-functional matrix environment
- Exceptional leadership and team management skills
Intake notes:
- Approximately 6-10 years of project/program management experience preferred.
- Biotechnology or pharmaceutical industry experience strongly preferred.
- Clinical development and/or clinical trial experience.
- Experience managing multiple concurrent projects and deliverables.
- Cross-functional team and stakeholder management experience.
- Experience leading meetings, developing agendas, facilitating discussions, tracking actions, and driving follow-up.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills, including experience communicating program status to senior stakeholders.
- Ability to identify and help resolve issues in a timely manner.
- Bachelor's degree or relevant equivalent background expected.
- Master's/graduate degree is a plus.
- PMP or other project-management certification is a plus.
Highly Desired Background:
- Biomarker strategy/program experience.
- Precision medicine.
- Translational medicine.
- Translational biology.
- Clinical development.
- Clinical operations.
- Experience supporting scientific or clinical cross-functional teams.
Tools & Systems:
- Strong proficiency with standard business tools, particularly:
- PowerPoint
- SharePoint
- Experience with Smartsheet or comparable project/planning tools is beneficial.
- Candidate should be comfortable learning company-specific systems and processes.
Key Soft Skills:
- Proactive and self-directed.
- Strong multitasking and prioritization skills.
- Confident meeting facilitator.
- Comfortable speaking up and taking the lead.
- Strong interpersonal and stakeholder-management skills.
- Collaborative and adaptable.
- Highly organized and dependable.
- Positive, solutions-oriented mindset.
- Able to influence and drive progress without relying on direct authority.
Red Flags:
- Limited ownership beyond scheduling, meeting support, and tracker updates; cannot show examples of driving an issue through resolution.
- Weak clinical-development or scientific understanding, particularly around biomarker operations and how they affect study execution.
- Difficulty managing multiple priorities, adapting to changing plans, or working effectively in an ambiguous, fast-paced environment.
- Poor follow-through on timelines, actions, risks, and escalations; lacks a clear system to keep work moving.
- Ineffective cross-functional communication or a blame-oriented approach when working with scientists, clinical teams, vendors, and leadership.
Interview Process:
- Manager is available to begin virtual/phone interviews now and can interview approximately 5-6 candidates.
- Would also like to include additional team members on the interview panel.
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Spectraforce Technologies
Sep 29, 2026