Project Manager - UK Remote Remote
Job description
About Dexcom:
Founded in 1999, Dexcom, Inc. provides continuous glucose monitoring technology to help patients and their clinicians better manage diabetes. Since our inception, we have focused on better outcomes for patients, caregivers, and clinicians by delivering solutions for people with diabetes - while empowering our community to take control of diabetes.
The Dexcom G6 is a stand-alone CGM system for the type 1 diabetes population using multiple daily injections (MDI) and can also be used by anyone on insulin pump therapy. With Dexcom G6, a sensor is inserted under the skin to measure the level of glucose in the interstitial fluid (fluid in the tissue), eliminating the need for painful fingerpricks. The Dexcom G6 has customisable alarms and alerts to warn users and their designated followers of dangerous glucose levels, even while they are asleep.
Role Summary:
Project Manager - UK Remote (you must have the Right to Work in the UK)
We have an exciting position to be based remotely in the UK (you must have the Right to Work in the UK without sponsorship), for a Commercial Project Manager to support the rapid growth and scale of Dexcom. We are seeking an experienced, highly-motivated Project Manager (PM) to join a team delivering our EMEA strategic growth initiatives.
Working as the PM, you will be involved in the structuring and delivery of strategic plans and coordinating with cross-functional teams to deliver. You will be heavily involved in strategy planning and execution together with the continuous governance and monitoring of performance throughout the project and program lifecycle.
We want to hear from candidates who consider themselves a results-oriented strategic thinker and hands-on delivery lead, able to demonstrate strong internal and external relationship management skills, excellent interpersonal skills, high EQ, and the ability to influence change across a matrixed organization. You will combines intelligence, experience, business acumen, and humility to effectively join a high-performing strategic team.
This is a tremendous opportunity to impact our customer base and growth of the organisation, and is at the core of our global strategy. This position reports to the Sr Manager Strategic Programs, as a key member of the EMEA Business Transformation team
Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
- Establish and lead strategic initiative project/program teams, including governance, project planning, approach, execution and tracking;
- Oversee and guide progress, defining scope, deliverables, resources, actions in close cooperation with the leadership team;
- Develop and maintain project framework, including a communications plan, RACI and RAID logs;
- Facilitate regular planning team meetings with documented outputs (minutes actions), and report on project status, progress, risks, issues and interdependencies;
- Engage and liaise with global and local stakeholders where applicable to ensure cross-functional alignment throughout the project and avoid siloed thinking;
- Appreciate (organisational) cultural differences and different management practices and utilize appropriate change management methods;
- Balance the need for certainty with the need for action. Be comfortable with complexity and ambiguity and willing to help guide difficult decisions without complete information;
- Employ strong written and verbal communications skills to articulate sophisticated problems in a simplified way, providing timely communication of issues/concerns both up and down the communication hierarchy;
- Drive continuous improvement in parallel with driving business outcomes;
- Ensure a smooth and effective transition to DexCom processes and policies.
Required Experience:
- A number of years, solid hands-on experience in the commercial and strategic program/project management environment, preferably in the medical device, pharma or digital health industries;
- Significant in-country experience in European markets, demonstrating a cultural and business understanding of doing business in;
- Fluent in English
- Excellent communication skills, both oral and written, including capacity to comfortably interface with senior leaders;
- Demonstrated high attention to detail and excellence in effectively managing multiple projects/priorities;
- Demonstrated ability to work with and coordinate demands from multiple customers, both internally and with partners. Must be able to handle ambiguity well;
- Ability to analyse complex business problems, develop supporting analysis and present in a clear and simple manner for an executive audience;
- Expertise to work effectively in a fast-paced, matrixed environment, as well as the ability to function independently as appropriate;
- Strong leadership and self-direction with high capacity for learning quickly.
Preferred Qualifications:
- MBA preferred.
- Experience in the Diabetes industry and/or Digital Health preferred.
Travel Required:
- 0-25%
Workplace Location:
The Workplace Type for this role is Remote, meaning that it can be home based with onsite work as needed for project activities.
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