Onsite: South San Francisco

Summary

• This role will coordinate and support multiple TM ODT–wide strategic and operational initiatives from planning through execution, ensuring alignment, structure, and sustained momentum. 
• This role will focus on meeting coordination, agenda preparation, tracking deliverables, building and maintaining project workflows, and ensuring stakeholders are accountable for follow-through.
• While driving projects forward, the Project Manager will be critical in enabling leaders and teams to execute effectively by providing organized, consistent, and well-documented coordination support.

Key Responsibilities

• Be the key interface with executive leadership teams and primary project contact for high visibility projects and manage the day-to-day operations of the department’s strategic initiatives.
• Spearhead the coordination of multiple concurrent TM ODT projects, ensuring timelines and actions are tracked and reported.
• Demonstrate leadership, curiosity, and ensure key discussions are driving decisions.
• Navigate ambiguity and connect the dots across multiple initiatives, ensuring assumptions are clarified, expectations and direction are clear, and stakeholders are appropriately connected and informed.
• Schedule, prepare for, and facilitate project meetings, including developing agendas, recording decisions, tracking action items, and following up on deliverables.
• Develop, maintain, and monitor project plans, workflows, milestones, KPIs, and risk logs.
• Support strategic change initiatives, including adoption of the new operating model, through structured communications, planning, and follow-through.
• Build and maintain reusable project management templates, workflows, and governance tools that can be applied department-wide.
• Provide robust documentation (including Standard Operating Procedures) and a handover plan quarterly as tools and processes are developed.
• Train internal staff on using newly developed tools, workflows, and best practices to ensure sustainability after contract completion.
• Partner with the Sr. Business Manager to ensure alignment with broader objectives, and with Sr. Leaders for project-specific oversight.

Deliverables / Outcomes

• Documented project plans, meeting notes, milestone/KPI trackers, and risk logs.
• Standardized and reusable project management tools and workflows for TM ODT.
• Quarterly SOP documentation and handover packages.
• Trained internal staff to ensure sustainability of processes.
• Improved consistency in operational execution and adoption of the new operating model.
• Documentation of changes and processes (templates, SOPs, etc.)

Who You Are

• Bachelor’s degree required; advanced degree in life sciences, business, or related field preferred.
• 5+ years of professional experience in project management, preferably within biotech, pharma, or related scientific/technical environments.
• Proven ability to coordinate complex, cross-functional projects with multiple stakeholders.
• Strong organizational and time management skills with the ability to manage competing priorities.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including preparing agendas, documentation, and clear follow-through communications.
• Demonstrated ability to create structured project management tools, templates, and SOPs.
• Experience with project management software and tools (e.g., Google Suite, Monday.com, Tableau, or equivalent).
• Project Management Professional (PMP) certification or equivalent training preferred.
• Familiarity with Change Management principles (PROSCI certification preferred)

The hiring range for this position is $55 to $61/hr. The base pay actually offered will take into account internal equity, and may also vary depending on candidate's geographic region, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience amongst other factors

Harvest Technical Services is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or 

expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, pregnancy, disability, age, veteran status, or any other federal, state, or local protected class.