Senior Project Manager

The Position

We are in search of a Senior project manager for our IL office to lead our project management efforts. We are growing quite rapidly in the quantity and complexity of the projects we are managing for biotech, CROs, and Big-pharma. Each project is composed of different fronts (from finalizing the BD efforts, formation of the deal and milestones, scientific and technical alignment (both external and internal), onboarding, and multi-step complex execution across multiple R&D disciplines, which includes back-and-forth communication with the customer, scientific publications, land & expand strategy, etc.). This role will be responsible for making it all happen, while allowing us to connect the different parts (both external and internal), and support growth and scale.

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‍Duties and Responsibilities

• Lead our project management efforts, including external communication and internal alignment
• Build the project management infrastructure and procedures in the organization
• Support the successful execution of a handful and then dozens of projects (and growing), track project performance, timelines, lead escalation paths, problem-solving, and the collection and implementation of feedback. Track progress and results vs. goals and expectations and highlight potential conflicts or opportunities.
• Lead the creation of materials required for execution of projects, as well as deliverables and internal documentation - both templates and ad-hoc materials for each project.
• Develop expansion strategies for the different kinds of customers (CROs, biotech, big pharma) and lead the expansion efforts as well as relationship-building
• Lead internal learning processes from project execution, and the continuous improvement of the project management procedures
• Provide insights as well as materials for the BD and sales to leverage the projects for business development
  
  

Required Qualifications

• Desire to change the world and to have a huge and positive impact
• Strong scientific background (PhD)
• Strong technical and analytical understanding
• Ability to clearly communicate with a wide range of stakeholders and translate scientific insights into actionable decisions
• Team player
  
  

Desired Skills

• Driven, self-motivated individual who is passionate about innovation in drug development.

What We Offer:

• Join us on a mission to change the world for the better.
• The opportunity to work with an amazing team passionate about making a real-world impact.
• Extremely hard and diverse problem setting, in which the team is pushing the envelope.
• A collaborative and dynamic startup environment.
• Professional growth and development opportunities.

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