Location:
United States
Job Posted Date:
October 22, 2021
Opportunities:
Full-time Positions
Population:
Life Sciences
Roles and Responsibilities of the Position
- Facilitate in establishing and translating strategic program goals into project plan(s) with clearly outlining deliverables, milestones, and no-go decisions.
- Engage in establishing program strategic objectives by collaborating with Loxo Biologics’ leadership team.
- Engage with functional team leads of antibody discovery, translational, mechanistic biology, and protein engineering (and other key stakeholders) to plan, execute, and track project activities ensuring alignment of project deliverables with strategic goals.
- Actively facilitate project meetings with internal and external stakeholders (create agendas, minutes, and track action items).
- Proficient in adaptive communications; effectively manage communications vertically and horizontally in a cross-functional environment involving external and internal stakeholders.
- Proactively contribute and manage project communications. Identify gaps and ambiguities in communication channels and address them to maintain alignment across the team.
- Actively contribute to create project updates, reports, presentations, and memos and maintain project document repository.
- Identify and assess the needs for outsourcing, establish relationships with external collaborators, and manage alliances on an ongoing basis.
- Drive day-to-day operational activities by coordinating with stakeholders from different functional departments - legal/Business operations, procurement, finance, and other relevant functional areas.
- Proactively identify gaps in processes and actively create processes to meet program needs.
- Adaptive to change in priorities and able to drive project outcomes ensuring re-alignment with program deliverables in changing landscape.
- Contribute to implementing visions of building and operationalizing large molecule discovery labs.
- Contribute to building positive, collaborative teams across various scientific disciplines, and encouraging sharing of new ideas, and creative ways to solve problems often needed in discovery research.
- Support the creation of an organizational project framework for different functional groups and build operational guidelines and processes.
Job Requirements:
Required Qualifications and Background
- Bachelor’s Degree in relevant scientific discipline (i.e.: Biology, Biochemistry, etc.) and a minimum of 7 years of direct project management/alliance management experience roles in cross-functional Biotech and pharmaceutical research environment. Prior experience is managing strategic program management in early phase large molecule discovery set up will be preferable.
- Excellent verbal, written communication and interpersonal skills.
- Excellent organizational skills, efficient, with strong attention to detail.
Additional Preferred Qualifications
- Advanced degree in relevant scientific fields (e.g., Biology) strongly preferred.
- PMP certification is required.
- Experience managing projects in early stage, large molecule discovery in large molecule discovery operations.
- Understand distinctions between high-level program goals and day-today operations.
- Experience in managing external suppliers, vendors, and other external alliances.
- Ability to anticipate key challenges and proactively propose solutions.
- Adaptive to changes and apply creative problem-solving skill to meet project and other operational needs.
- Proficient in identifying and applying tools to effectively manage and track projects - MS Office suite, MS Project.
- Create and implement new tools and work towards creating and implementing processes customized for furthering discovery research.
Available locations for this role
- South San Francisco, CA
- US Based-Remote
Physical Demands / Travel
The physical demands of this job are consistent with light office duties. Travel (post-COVID) TBD.
The physical demands here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.
Work Environment
This position’s work environment is in an office or remote based.
The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those encountered by an employee while performing the essential functions of this job.
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