Job Title: Project Manager
Location: Newark, DE 19711
Duration: 1 year
Shift Times: 7am-3:30pm (flex)
 
Job Summary

The Project Management Specialist supports the Project Excellence Team Leader at the client  Mammalian Toxicology Center to oversee timely delivery of high-quality mammalian toxicology work product to support client molecule stage advancement decisions and regulatory submissions working with both internal and external stakeholders The Project Management Specialist has primary responsibilities for ensuring study timelines, managing resources, defining, enhancing, implementing, and communicating effective project management workflow processes for study initiation and oversight of milestone deliverables. The primary responsibilities of this role will include but is not limited to coordination of pre-study activities to enable strategic planning and execution across molecule programs and across the interdependent testing teams at the lab.

Job Responsibilities

The duties include, but are not limited to the following:

• Establish and maintain relationships with internal and external stakeholders to facilitate successful study initiation outcomes.
• Monitoring and addressing requests that are provided via the shared Haskell Project Management inbox. Such requests include test material/CoA availability/shipment details, prioritization requests from internal support teams, results of tier one studies if tier two studies are triggered, inquiries from SMEs, GRPMs, SDs, SMs, SmartSheet notifications, Master Schedule corrections from P&I team, RFQs for contracted work.
• Acting on requests for study initiation that are submitted via the MamTox portal.
• Assign project IDs, assemble internal project teams, and communicate project timelines.
o This includes building relevant internal teams for each program and creation of entries in the multiple project planning tools that drive the work at the lab organized by molecule. Notifications from the various tools inform the testing and support teams of upcoming demand.
o This includes notifying the relevant planning/scheduling staff and test material coordination teams to clarify planning for specific testing needs.
• Work directly with Group Leaders, SMEs, Study Monitors and Strategic Outsourcing to initiate studies to be placed at contract labs, ensuring timeline deliverables are met.
• Maintain master list of studies and update study initiation statuses with relevant milestones.
• Once study schedules are finalized, each study milestone date is entered into the Milestone-Tracking SmartSheet that enables the testing teams and the support teams (scientific writing and quality assurance) to anticipate demand and effectively prioritize across programs.
• Ensuring consistency and accuracy of information in wider Regulatory and Stewardship planning tools as the details are translated and maintained in the local project management tools in use at the lab that permit a necessary higher level of detail to enable completion of work product at the lab that is in alignment with the overall program needs and to ensure the accuracy of the GLP Master Schedule.
• Maintain internal study costing data across multiple disciplines.
• Demonstrate qualities that set a high standard for interpersonal interactions, organizational skills, initiative, team spirit, conflict resolution, decision-making and work ethic.

Job Requirements
• B.A. or B.S. degree or equivalent relevant experience.
• Demonstrate expertise in project management in a laboratory setting.
• Design and implement process/workflow upgrades which impact project or competency objectives.
• Excel at conceptual/strategic thinking.
• Demonstrate innovation and problem-solving skills.
• Possess strong interpersonal skills.
• Demonstrate effective written and oral communication skills.
• Ability to work with multiple electronic databases. 
 
At SPECTRAFORCE, we are committed to maintaining a workplace that ensures fair compensation and wage transparency in adherence with all applicable state and local laws. This position’s starting pay is: $ 21.87/hr.