Job DescriptionJob SummaryHologic is seeking a Program Manager responsible for managing a portfolio of lifecycle management projects from scoping and planning through completion. This role will manage and support cross-functional project teams within a matrixed organization, ensuring that project objectives, timelines, risks, and dependencies are effectively planned, tracked, and communicated.
The successful candidate will work closely with Marketing, Regional Sales, Service, R&D, Quality, Regulatory, and other functional partners align project priorities to business objectives and ensure project success. This role requires strong organization, communication, follow-through, and the ability to manage multiple priorities while escalating issues appropriately.
The Program Manager will work on-site in Hologic's San Diego office 5 days per week.
Essential Duties and ResponsibilitiesThe incumbent may be asked to perform other function-related activities in addition to the below-mentioned responsibilities as reasonably required by business needs.
Key Responsibilities:
- Manage small- to medium-sized projects or defined workstreams within larger programs from initial scoping and planning through release.
- Lead the development and maintenance of project plans, schedules, milestones, deliverables, and resource plans.
- Coordinate cross-functional project activities to ensure alignment across all team members, functional leaders, and stakeholders.
- Track project status, risks, issues, action items, dependencies, and decisions; provide timely updates to project teams and management.
- Assist with identifying project risks and issues, supporting mitigation planning, and escalating concerns to management or senior program leaders as appropriate.
- Maintain accurate project documentation, meeting notes, schedules, dashboards, and status reports.
- Help ensure project execution is aligned with applicable internal processes and quality system requirements.
- Support continuous improvement by helping to build project plans into standard and repeatable processes, procedures, templates, and tools.
Leadership and Management:
- Help drive accountability for assigned tasks, deliverables, and timelines.
- Facilitate project team meetings, communicate expectations, document decisions, and follow up on action items.
- Build effective working relationships with team members and stakeholders across functional areas.
- Use a collaborative approach to resolve day-to-day project challenges and escalate complex issues appropriately.
- Demonstrate ownership of assigned projects while operating with guidance from management when needed.
Communication and Interpersonal Skills:
- Facilitate effective information flow across internal teams and stakeholders by communicating project status, risks, issues, and decisions clearly and accurately.
- Demonstrate strong meeting facilitation, follow-up, and documentation skills.
- Work effectively in a matrixed environment.
- Use sound judgment to determine when issues require escalation or additional leadership support.
- Maintain a professional, collaborative, and solutions-oriented communication style.
Project Execution and Problem-Solving:
- Apply foundational project management practices to support successful project execution.
- Identify project risks, dependencies, and blockers, and lead development of mitigation or recovery plans.
- Support decision-making by gathering information, organizing options, and communicating trade-offs and impacts to project teams and management.
- Demonstrate attention to detail and the ability to manage multiple project activities in a fast-paced environment.
Qualifications - Demonstrated capability to apply project management principles, tools, and techniques.
- Ability to manage project schedules, action items, risks, issues, and cross-functional communications.
- Strong organizational, follow-up, and documentation skills.
- Strong verbal and written communication skills.
- Ability to work effectively with cross-functional teams in a matrixed organization.
- Ability to operate with moderate supervision, escalating risks, issues, and decisions when appropriate.
- Familiarity with ISO and FDA quality system regulations preferred.
Education - BS degree in Science, Engineering, Computer Science, Business, or related field required.
- Project Management coursework or certification strongly desired (e.g., CAPM, PMP)
Experience- Minimum of 2-5 years of experience in project management, project coordination, or a related functional role with project-planning and project-leadership experience.
- Experience coordinating cross-functional teams and tracking project deliverables, timelines, risks, and issues.
- Experience with Design Control strongly preferred.
- Experience in a regulated environment, including medical device, diagnostics, healthcare, or life sciences, preferred.
The annualized base salary range for this role is $125,100 - $195,500 and is bonus eligible. Final compensation packages will ultimately depend on factors including relevant experience, skillset, knowledge, geography, education, business needs and market demand.
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Agency and Third Party Recruiter Notice:
Agencies that submit a resume to Hologic must have a current executed Hologic Agency Agreement executed by a member of the Human Resource Department. In addition Agencies may only submit candidates to positions for which they have been invited to do so by a Hologic Recruiter. All resumes must be sent to the Hologic Recruiter under these terms or they will not be considered.
