Senior Program Manager, Lab Specimen Mgmt

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• Responsible for creating project schedules, resource requirements, risk management plans, integrated business plans, and product requirements.
• Accountable for execution, quality, and results of assigned projects and overall product success in the market.
• Leads cross‑functional development of product architecture, synthesizes functional plans, and identifies critical interdependencies to ensure successful execution.
• Ensure alignment across product value proposition, program scope, and strategic business objectives.
• Lead program planning to ensure all requirements are clear and driven by market needs, customer insights, and experience.
• Demonstrate strong leadership, learning agility, and action orientation when facing uncertainty, instilling confidence through clear decisions and proactive actions.
• Engage, influence, and direct all functions involved in product development to inspire and motivate cross‑functional teams toward achieving common goals.
• Constructively challenge team members and leaders to rethink assumptions and improve product development outcomes.
• Manage and guide daily activities of team members, track progress against plan, manage project budget, identify risks, and implement mitigation plans.
• Lead cross‑functional teams through problem resolution, including root cause analysis and corrective/preventive actions.
• Communicate with functional managers and business leaders regarding critical project risks, questions, or challenges.
• Challenge core team members, functional leaders, and business leaders on strategies and approaches to improve product development outcomes.
• Interact across functions to ensure alignment and transparency.

• Bachelor's Degree in a science or engineering field.
• Minimum of 8 years of professional experience, including at least 5 years of relevant project management experience leading teams and new product development projects within a regulated industry, with progressively increasing complexity of assignments.
• Experience in new product development (NPD), including planning multiple work streams, identifying risks, and implementing action plans to optimize timelines and reduce execution risk.

• Proficiency with Microsoft Office suite tools Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Teams.
• Proven ability to establish customer requirements from defined specifications and translate them into product requirements.
• Ability to lead and drive the identification, validation, and mitigation planning of all project risks—including technical, schedule, business, and resource—based on a thorough understanding of integrated project plans and work breakdown structures.
• Strong financial acumen with proven ability to develop and manage complex program budgets, perform cost‑benefit analyses, and forecast financial impacts throughout the product development lifecycle.
• Comprehensive understanding of all functional work streams in a phase‑gate process and the ability to develop and maintain an integrated project vision.
• Skilled in applying analytical, statistical, computational, and empirical methods to gain deep design insights and minimize development timelines.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills, with the ability to tailor messaging to different audiences and convey complex technical/business issues concisely to enable high‑quality decision‑making.
• Exceptional…