About Leica Biosystems
At Leica Biosystems, one of Danaher’s 15+ operating companies, our work saves lives—and we’re all united by a shared commitment to innovate for tangible impact. You’ll thrive in a culture of belonging where you and your unique viewpoint matter. At Leica Biosystems, we’re not just shaping the future of cancer diagnostics — we’re transforming lives. Our mission of “Advancing Cancer Diagnostics, Improving Lives” is the driving force behind everything we do.

The Role
The Project Manager for Leica Biosystems is responsible the successful on time delivery of complex programmes and projects working with broad cross-functional and multi-site teams (including CDx/Pharma). This position is part of the Programme Management Office located in Newcastle and will be on site.

You will be a part of the Programme Management Office and be responsible for working with key partners to drive project on time delivery, identify risks and issues, implement counter measures and ensure task completion by prioritising and reaching compromise with team members and functional managers to make critical decisions to ensure project success.

Location: Newcastle upon Tyne (On-site)

In this role, you will have the opportunity to:

• Lead on-time delivery of projects within agreed scope for key site and R & D programmes/projects.
• Identify and monitoring project activities to achieve required delivery and quality throughout.
• Determine project responsibilities by identifying project phases and elements and assigning personnel to phases and activities.
• Responsible for clear and concise reporting and escalation to project sponsor of project progress, risks, countermeasures and issues.
• Deploy standard work for site project management using Danaher Business System principles to provide reliable and consistent delivery of required results.

The essential requirements of the job include:

• Educated to BSc level in a relevant discipline or equivalent.
• Demonstrable and relevant experience of successful delivery of multifunctional programmes including new product delivery and manufacturing operations, or people management experience.
• Experience of using Project management tools including MS project, excel, power point, SharePoint, team sites, SmartSheet, Jira or Trello.
• Exceptional communication skills (verbal/written/presentation/relationship building).
• High levels of integrity, confidence, independence and collaboration skills.

Preferred Requirements:

• PMP/Prince2 certification is preferred.
• Relevant experience of working within medical device (or equivalent) organisation with a regulatory framework is preferred.
• Experience with Class II or III medical product development is preferred.

Travel: project specific and commonly <20%

Leica Biosystems, a Danaher operating company, offers a broad array of comprehensive, competitive benefit programs that add value to our lives. Whether it’s a health care program or paid time off, our programs contribute to life beyond the job.