The Opportunity:

We are seeking a highly motivated individual eager to develop their program management skills. This position reports to the Business Operation Team, which is part of the Program Management Group.

As a Project Coordinator, you will work closely with various members of the Business Operation team and cross-functional leaders to support departmental and project goals. You are able to “roll up your sleeves” and thrive in a fast-paced, highly cross-functional environment. You have a desire to streamline and organize project work and build dashboard and report that enables decision making. You enjoy working in a collaborative setting and strive to bring out the best of your teammates.

Activities as part of your typical day may include:

• Working with project managers to create integrated project plans with established goals, milestones, and timelines. In doing so, you will develop and expand your competencies with program management processes and tools.

• In working with program teams, you will gain depth of understanding drug development processes and the approaches critical to effectively advance programs to key milestones.

• Building interpersonal skills to enhance your ability to positively influence the performance of the teams your support.

• Fostering an open, inclusive, and collaborative culture with a focus on shared learnings within the Program Management group.

Required Skils, Experience and Education:

• B.A. or BSc. in Life Sciences with 2-3 years’ experience in a scientific or similarly related field.

• Demonstrated willingness to live by the RVMD Core Values and excitement about our mission.

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.

• Strong interest in learning and developing professional skills.

• Quick study, able to grasp concepts and apply to related areas.

• Highly organized, have strong interpersonal skills, and is detailed oriented.

• Ability to prioritize key scientific questions and relevant studies to address those within multiple programs.

• Ability to multi-task across multiple projects.

• Leverages discretion to determine probability of likely success and meaningfulness of data.

• Contributes to building a positive team spirit, shares expertise with others.

• Exhibits impeccable integrity and sound judgment with sensitive information.

• Able to adapt to changes in the work environment.

• Possess the ability to quickly assess problems/situations, provide effective resolution/solutions and raise and manage risks and discrepancies where needed using scientific knowledge.

• Proficient with Microsoft Suite (Word, PowerPoint, Excel, Outlook), Power BI Smartsheet, MS Project, Timeline Office Pro, a plus.

Preferred Skills:

• MSc., MBA or Ph.D. in a scientific or similarly related field a plus

• PMP (Project Management Professional) or other PM certification or equivalent is a plus.

• Experience in Oncology therapeutic area is strongly preferrable. 

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The Opportunity:

This is an exciting, high-profile, and highly visible Program Management opportunity to advance first-in-Class RAS(ON) Inhibitors through clinical development.  The ideal candidate is a very proficient and self-motivated program manager with a solid understanding of drug development. The Associate Director (AD) acts as a connector across the program ensuring clarity of roles and responsibilities, decision making and accountability for deliverables.  They routinely partner with the Lead Program Management and Sub-Team Leaders to translate program strategy into an efficient execution plan. They understand the objectives of the program team and the roles of sub-team members to facilitate productive discussions and decision-making. The AD manages cross-functionally to achieve program milestones.   They also play a pivotal role in communications, making sure that teams have access to accurate and timely information regarding program decisions, assumptions, expectations and timelines.

Overall, the AD is responsible for program execution at the sub-team level.  They not only care about the outcomes but how we get there. The successful candidate will draw upon their experience to:

• Understand the program strategy, stakeholders and interdependencies and works with sub-teams to develop set priorities and execute against their plans.

• Manage the integrated project plan and project assumptions (accounting for goals, key objectives, deliverables, risks) to enable accurate project, financial and portfolio analyses for business planning processes.

• Identify critical path activities, resource constraints, risks, and conflicts that could impact the timelines or budget; work with subject matter experts to construct appropriate mitigation plans.

• Contribute to scenario planning (comprising costs, timelines, risks, and project strategy) to inform stage gate, portfolio, budget and long-range planning.

• Manage the preparation, review, editing and submission of project documents, presentations and communications.

• Lead an efficient information flow within the project team and sub-teams,and prepare materials and reports for internal advisory and governance meetings.

• Practice effective meeting and information management including, timely meeting agendas and minutes.

• Facilitate project team meetings, follow up on action items, document meeting materials and decisions, and act as a primary contact for project team related information.

• Partner with the sub-team leads to ensure the team achieves and maintains a high-level of sustainable performance. Identify and resolve issues related to efficient and effective team operation.

• Recommend and implement opportunities for streamlining team and business processes.

• Drive adoption of project management systems and best practices across the program team.

• Onboard and train new team members on program structure, relevant stakeholders and program management resources (team site, project plan, RAID log, meeting calendar, etc.).

• Support new programs and special projects as needed.

Required Skills, Experience and Education:

Ideal candidate will have the following experience and be able to demonstrate the following:

• B.A. or BSc. in Life Sciences and at least 5 years’ experience in the biotech/pharmaceutical industry with at least 2 years’ direct development project management experience managing cross-functional development teams.

• Understanding of the clinical drug development process and regulations, coupled with strong proficiency in project management practices, tools, and methodology.

• Expertise in developing and managing project scope, deliverables, risk & resource requirements including, schedule / timeline management, and risk management.

• Excellent interpersonal skills, including clear, succinct, and timely communication and proven ability to foster important relationships with key stakeholders.

• Outstanding verbal and written communication skills with the ability to summarize complex information into simple concepts; has the ability to effectively interact across team line functions as well as with external key stakeholders.

• Proven track record of good decision making and exercising sound judgment.

• Experience using Project Management software to manage project timelines and resources (e.g., MS Project, SmartSheet, OfficeTimeline, and OnePager Pro etc.).

• Strong computer proficiency with MS Office suite, SharePoint and similar document archiving systems.

Preferred Skills:

• MSc. or MBA or Ph.D. a plus.

• PMP (Project Management Professional) or other PM certification or equivalent is a plus.

• Experience in Oncology therapeutic area is strongly preferrable. 

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The Opportunity:

This is an exciting, high-profile, and highly visible Program Management opportunity to advance a first-in-Class RAS(ON) Inhibitor through clinical development.  The ideal candidate is a very proficient and self-motivated program manager with a solid understanding of drug development. The Director, Program Management partners with the Project Team Leader (PTL) on the translation of program strategy into an efficient execution plan; they understand the competitive landscape and clinical context to manage the cross-functional dependencies and connections. They understand the breadth of cross-functional activities and can foster productive collaborations to ensure successful execution.

Overall, the Director, Program Management makes things happen via productive collaborations in an organization that is rapidly developing its capabilities and infrastructure. They not only care about the outcomes but how we get there. The successful candidate will draw upon their experience to:

• Partner with the PTL in defining program strategy, stakeholder management, and overall program leadership topics.

• Establish and maintain functionally integrated project plan and project assumptions (accounting for goals, key objectives, deliverables, risks) to enable accurate project, financial and portfolio analyses for business planning processes.

• Ensure identification and management of program risks; working with subject matter experts to construct appropriate mitigation plans.

• Evaluate alternative development scenarios (comprising costs, timelines, risks, and project strategy) during progression of the program through stage gates and as per business need.

• Lead the global development team through the preparation and update of key project documents and communications.

• Lead an efficient information flow within the global cross-functional project team, and internal advisory & governance bodies.

• Demonstrate effective meeting and information management including prioritizing the right topics for discussion, ensuring the objectives of the meeting are achieved, communicating decisions to key stakeholders and ensuring that action items are assigned and completed in a timely manner.

• Serves as the owner of project team information including the project plan, budget and program assumptions as approved by PRG and the Senior Leadership Team.

• Partner with the PTL to ensure the team achieves and maintains a high-level of sustainable performance.

• Apply drug development expertise to coach and mentor project team members to ensure efficient and effective project team operation.

• Identify, recommend, and implement opportunities for streamlining team and business processes.

• Participate in establishment and implementation of project management systems and best practices.

• Coach and mentor members of the Program Management team to ensure a strong bench of future leaders.

• Support new corporate development activities or other initiatives supporting department, portfolio, or corporate needs.

Required Skills, Experience and Education:

• B.A. or BSc. in Life Sciences and at least 8 years’ experience in the biotech/pharmaceutical industry with at least 5 years’ direct development project management experience managing cross-functional global development teams.

• Broad knowledge of the clinical drug development process and regulations, coupled with strong proficiency in project management practices, tools, and methodology.

• Expertise in developing and managing project scope, deliverables, risk & resource requirements including, Schedule / Timeline management, and Risk management.

• Excellent interpersonal skills, including clear, succinct, and timely communication and proven ability to foster important relationships with key stakeholders.

• Outstanding verbal and written communication skills with the ability to summarize complex information into simple concepts; has the ability to effectively interact across team line functions as well as with external key stakeholders.

• Proven track record of good decision making and exercising sound judgment.

• Experience using Project Management software to manage project timelines and resources (e.g., MS Project, SmartSheet, OfficeTimeline, and OnePager Pro etc.).

• Strong computer proficiency with MS Office suite, SharePoint and similar document archiving systems.

Preferred Skills:

• MSc. or MBA or Ph.D. in Life Sciences a plus.

• PMP (Project Management Professional) or other PM certification or equivalent is a plus.

• Experience in Oncology therapeutic area is strongly preferrable. 

  #LI-Hybrid #LI-EM1