About the job

Description

Job title: Project Manager

Reports to: Head of PMO

Location: Manchester / Hybrid - onsite minimum 3 days per week

Contract Type: Full-time, 14 months Fixed-Term Contract (Maternity Cover to start May 2025)

Salary & Benefits: Competitive Salary, Pension, Life Assurance, Private Healthcare

About Yourgene Health:

Yourgene Health is a leading integrated technologies and services business, enabling the delivery of genomic medicine. The group works in partnership with global leaders in DNA technology to advance diagnostic science.

Yourgene primarily develops, manufactures, and commercialises simple and accurate molecular diagnostic solutions, for reproductive health, precision medicine and infectious diseases. The Group's flagship in vitro diagnostic products include non -invasive prenatal tests (NIPT) for Down's Syndrome and other genetic disorders, Cystic Fibrosis screening tests, invasive rapid aneuploidy tests and DPYD genotyping.

Yourgene has a range of innovative DNA sample preparation platforms, powered by Ranger® Technology, the Yourgene LightBench® and Yourgene QS250, ideal for cell free DNA applications in NIPT and oncology including liquid biopsy.

Yourgene also has a global laboratory service network equipped to be a full life-cycle partner for clinical, research and pharmaceutical organisations to support partners at the preclinical, clinical, and post market stage to develop, manufacture, obtain regulatory approval and commercialise new products and services. In addition, Yourgene offers and NIPT and high throughput Covid testing service.

Yourgene Health is headquartered in Manchester, UK with facilities in Taipei, Singapore, the US and Canada.

Our Culture:

Yourgene is a growing, vibrant and exciting place to work, we are looking for committed driven individuals to be part of our next growth journey. Our culture is described by our employee's as collegiate, friendly, professional, innovative, open and fast paced. We have nay social and well-being initiatives run by our Social Huddle that keep our sense of community alive during challenging times that the pandemic has thrown our way. At Yourgene we focus on putting values led programmes in place to ensure that we can attract, retain and develop our people. We want our people to have a career with Yourgene and we ensure that they are recognised and rewarded for their achievements and commitment, everyone plays a critical role in our growth journey.

About the role:

We are looking to recruit a full-time Project Manager for 14 months on a fixed-term contract basis starting May 2025 to cover a maternity leave. The Project Manager will be based onsite a minimum of 3 days per week from our Manchester HQ.

As a Project Manager, you will proactively use project management methodologies to own and drive high complexity projects from initiation through to completion. You will co-ordinate cross functional teams to deliver projects on time, within budget and to a high standard. The number of projects you manage will be dependent upon their size and complexity.

Key responsibilities:

Planning and management

• ​Apply project management methodologies to deliver projects on time, to budget and meeting quality standards
• Utilise project management software to manage projects and assist others in the use of project management tools
• Work with cross-functional teams to design project plans, work packages, Gantt charts, monitor timelines and produce reports on the progress of projects
• Ensure that the Charter is monitored and remains fit for purpose
• Generate RACI matrices for projects and ensure that stakeholders are engaged and informed on the progress of the project
• Own project RAID logs, working with teams to put in place mitigations and escalating risks and issues where required
• Estimate the project budget in partnership with the Team Lead
• Oversight and completion of Design/Stage Gate Reviews of the project
• Organise close-down activities at project completion to include post project review and transfer of project assets/knowledge to ensure that lessons learnt inform future developments

Communication

• Arrange and lead cross-functional project meetings, ensuring agendas and meeting materials are provided in advance, minutes and decisions are logged and communicated after the meeting
• Identify internal and external stakeholders and plan and build collaborative working relationships
• Manage the communication with internal and external stakeholders, providing clear progress updates
• Escalate issues to Sponsors or senior stakeholders with options for decisions when required

Training and development

• Support the induction and training of new members of staff
• Take part in training and development activities relevant to the role
• Encourage and support the development and training of other staff

Other

• Contributing to project analysis enabling KPI and report production
• To own the Design History File and ensure product related projects comply with the relevant quality and regulatory standards and the design requirements/specifications

Working environment:

This is a hybrid role based from our Manchester HQ. You will be required to be onsite a minimum of 3 days per week.

About you:

• First degree in a relevant subject or equivalent experience
• Professional qualification in APM, Prince2 or other recognised project management methodology is preferred
• A range of operational and project management tools and techniques that you utilise to manage complex projects involving cross-functional teams
• Effective and persuasive communicator demonstrating verbal, written and presentation skills with a high degree of personal credibility
• Ability to prioritise and deliver multiple parallel projects in a fast-paced environment to time and high quality, utilising excellent organizational skills with superb attention to detail, with a thorough and systematic approach to projects and associated tasks
• The ability to establish effective working relationships with a range of external and internal stakeholders at all levels, ideally in a scientific setting
• Ability to analyse and synthesise highly complex information and present it clearly and precisely, both verbally and in written formats
• Confident negotiation skills, and the ability to deliver contentious information in a sensitive manner
• A proactive attitude and creative problem solver who is able to identify issues, manage conflict, develop options appraisals and recommend solutions.
• Ability to use standard Microsoft packages (including Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, MS Teams and SharePoint

Closing date:

Sunday 16th February, 2025

Yourgene Health is committed to encouraging equality, diversity and inclusion among our workforce. The aim is for our workforce to be truly representative of all sections of society and for each employee to feel respected and able to give their best.