Hybrid Details: Onsite 3 days/week in Waltham, MA

Duration: 6 months

Job Description
Seeking a Project Manager with a strong background in time and task management to support the R&D Integration and Program Management department. This person will work closely with product leads, program managers, department leads, and cross-functional team representatives to orchestrate development and execution of project strategic and operational plans to meet key program goals.

Key Responsibilities:

• Facilitates development and execution of project plans including:
• Responsible for managing, scheduling and facilitating project meetings
• Manage project/team correspondence and record-keeping such as agenda plans, meeting minutes, project schedules and action/decision logs ensuring all necessary materials are current, properly circulated, and stored
• Oversee projects and when problems arise, or work is falling behind schedule, communicate with the project manager and team members about the issue.
• Monitoring progress and managing potential emerging risk areas, gaps or opportunities for improvement in collaboration with team leads and/or program manger
• Provides project leadership to the product team and key sub-teams across research and development; ensuring clear and open communication
• Collaborate with function and/or project leads to identify, define and communicate project requirements, scope and objectives
• Support forecasting and budget activities in collaboration with key stakeholders
• Manages assignments and prioritized work & time to meet department deadlines
• We’re looking for an individual who values teamwork and collaboration, is organized and capable problem solving and multitasking, has excellent written and verbal communication skills, is self-motivated and driven to succeed, thrives working in a fast-paced and challenging work environment, and enjoys working on the details without losing site of the larger organizational goals.

• BS or MS in a scientific or engineering discipline and at least 5 years of relevant industry experience, strongly preferred
• Expert knowledge of MS Excel, MS Outlook, MS PowerPoint and SharePoint
• Experience working with project management platforms such as MS Project, Smartsheet or Planview
• Excellent verbal/written communication, time/resource management, attention to detail, interpersonal and organization skills