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Project Manager, Research Strategy & Operations

Tempus

Tempus

Operations
Chicago, IL, USA
Posted on Saturday, March 11, 2023

Passionate about precision medicine and advancing the healthcare industry?

Recent advancements in underlying technology have finally made it possible for AI to impact clinical care in a meaningful way. Tempus' proprietary platform connects an entire ecosystem of real-world evidence to deliver real-time, actionable insights to physicians, providing critical information about the right treatments for the right patients, at the right time.

What you’ll do:

  • Collaborate with Tempus’ Business Development (BD) team, Operations, Translational Research, Data Analytics, and Alliance Management teams to facilitate project plans and drive partnership opportunities forward
  • Act as a liaison between Tempus’ business development (BD) team and Computational Biologists and Data Scientists
  • Create operational processes to maintain and improve Pharma Analytics pre-sales and execution process
  • Work collaboratively across commercial, operational, scientific, product, and engineering teams to facilitate operational projects
  • Maintain processes and track KPIs and metrics articulating the health of the business
  • Manage and triage incoming Salesforce tickets for Data Business requests, maintaining systems accordingly (e.g, Salesforce, Jira, Wiki pages, etc)
  • Maintain status of various analytical projects across the data org to establish visibility of overall health of client accounts
  • Work closely with legal and scientific leadership to triage and review scoping documents ahead of contracting stage
  • Independently manage all projects, deadlines and stakeholder relationships with timely delivery of ad-hoc requests

Base Qualifications:

  • Excellent project management skills, with proven ability to execute complex projects with multiple cross-functional stakeholders
  • Ability to work independently, communicate proactively, manage multiple projects and prioritize daily tasks while managing critical deadlines
  • Proficiency in Excel / Google Sheets
  • Bachelor’s Degree
  • Demonstrate Tempus’ values by acting with integrity, respect and trust

Preferred Qualifications:

  • 1+ years of management consulting, alliance management, client service, customer success serving Life Sciences sector (Pharma / Biotech) with a history of proven past performance, meeting or exceeding expectations
  • B.S. or M.S. in Business Administration, Operations, or STEM; Molecular Biology, Biochemistry, Genetics or Cancer Genetics, or related field a plus
  • Experience collaborating and leading cross-functional teams
  • Desire to maintain a level of market, customer, and product knowledge necessary to meet sales and operational objectives; Knowledge of pharmaceutical industry trends and companies
  • Customer-facing experience, especially in a business development or consulting capacity
  • Proactive mindset that can operationalize implementable solutions, and can help move both internal and external stakeholders to quickly solve problems
  • Bias toward action and master simplifier - constantly pushing toward clarity and execution
  • Effective project management, relationship-building and negotiation skills
  • Impeccable written and verbal communication skills
  • Ability to create tactical action plans and solve complex problems
  • Highly analytical, entrepreneurial, and self-motivated
  • Solution-oriented mindset
  • Comfortable working in a fast-paced environment while managing rapidly changing priorities

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We are an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.