Project Manager - CONTRACT

Socket.dev; Princeton (NJ); On-site; USD 150,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Summit Therapeutics Inc. in Miami, FL, seeks a seasoned Project Manager to drive operational excellence across pre-launch and launch activities for oncology programs.

You will partner with cross-functional teams, manage launch workstreams, governance, dashboards, and day-to-day project execution to ensure on-budget, on-schedule delivery throughout the commercial product lifecycle. This role requires strong communication, strategic thinking, and a track record of delivering complex biopharma

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree required; advanced degree (MS, MBA, PharmD, PhD) or PMP certification preferred.
• Minimum of 5+ years of project management experience in biopharmaceutical or life sciences.
• Minimum of 5+ years of direct project management experience supporting commercial or medical affairs.
• Prior experience in pre-commercial or early commercial biotech/pharma strongly preferred.
• Proven ability to translate complex data into executive-ready insights.
• Expertise in project management and process improvement methodologies (PMP, Lean, Six Sigma, Agile).
• Willingness to travel 30-50% of the time.

Responsibilities

• Lead and support cross-functional planning and execution for launch readiness sub-team/s.
• Manage workstreams for new product launches, indication expansions, and lifecycle management.
• Establish and maintain dashboards, KPIs, and governance frameworks to monitor progress, identify risks and develop mitigation solutions, and drive accountability.

Skills

Project management

Vendor management

Budget management

Stakeholder influence

Lean Six Sigma

Agile

Education

Bachelor’s degree

Advanced degree or PMP certification

Job description

About Summit:

Summit Therapeutics Inc. is a biopharmaceutical oncology company with a mission focused on improving quality of life, increasing potential duration of life, and resolving serious unmet medical needs. At Summit, we believe in building a team of world class professionals who are passionate about this mission, and it is our people who drive this mission to reality. Summit’s core values include integrity, passion for excellence, purposeful urgency, collaboration, and our commitment to people. Our employees are truly the heart and soul of our culture, and they are invaluable in shaping our journey toward excellence.

Summit’s team is inspired to touch and help change lives through Summit’s clinical studies in the field of oncology. Summit has multiple global Phase 3 clinical studies, including:

Non-small Cell Lung Cancer (NSCLC)

• HARMONi: Phase 3 clinical study which was intended to evaluate ivonescimab combined with chemotherapy compared to placebo plus chemotherapy in patients with EGFR-mutated, locally advanced or metastatic non-squamous NSCLC who were previously treated with a 3rd generation EGFR TKI.
• HARMONi-3: Phase 3 clinical study which is intended to evaluate ivonescimab combined with chemotherapy compared to pembrolizumab combined with chemotherapy in patients with first-line metastatic NSCLC.
• HARMONi-7: Phase 3 clinical study which is intended to evaluate ivonescimab monotherapy compared to pembrolizumab monotherapy in patients with first-line metastatic NSCLC.

Colorectal Cancer (CRC)

• HARMONi-GI3: Phase 3 clinical study intended to evaluate ivonescimab in combination with chemotherapy compared with bevacizumab plus chemotherapy.

Ivonescimab is an investigational therapy not presently approved by any regulatory authority other than China’s National Medical Products Administration (NMPA). Summit is headquartered in Miami, Florida, and has additional offices in California, New Jersey, the UK, and Ireland.

Overview of Role:

The Project Manager role will be critical in ensuring operational excellence, cross-functional coordination, and launch readiness.

This position serves as a partner to the launch team while acting as the primary cross-functional operational contact and liaison for effective alignment, communication flow, and governance. The role will serve as a central point of contact for operational planning, delivery, and governance of critical launch planning projects—spanning scientific communications, congress strategy, launch planning, building project management practices and post-marketing data generation supporting launch preparation.

This role will focus on day-to-day project execution, ensuring defined scope, timelines, budgets, and quality objectives are met across the commercial product lifecycle.

Role and Responsibilities:

Strategic Project Leadership and governance

• Lead and support cross-functional planning and execution for launch readiness sub-team/s
• Manage workstreams for new product launches, indication expansions, and lifecycle management.
• Establish and maintain dashboards, KPIs, and governance frameworks to monitor progress, identify risks and develop mitigation solutions, and drive accountability.

Cross-functional Collaboration & Process Excellence

• Partner closely with leaders in various launch functions and workstreams to ensure unified execution and prioritization. Support alignment with other launch project management team members to enhance project management effectiveness through collaboration
• Champion, develop and manage planning tools for various business processes

Vendor Management:

• Manage relationships with key vendors and external partners to ensure high-quality, on-time, and on-budget delivery.

Project management:

• Contribute to developing robust project management tools, processes for launch and day-to-day operations.
• Partner with other project managers to develop, support and manage periodic launch management dashboards, meeting materials and actively manage functional, sub-teams and work-streams meetings for effective launch management
• All other duties as assigned.

Experience, Education and Specialized Knowledge and Skills:

• Bachelor’s (BS) degree required; advanced degree (MS, MBA, PharmD, PhD) or PMP certification preferred.
• Minimum of 5+ years of experience in project management, operational excellence, reporting, and performance management within biopharmaceutical or life sciences organizations.
• Minimum of 5+ years of direct project management experience supporting commercial or medical affairs
• Prior experience in pre-commercial or early commercial biotech/pharma strongly preferred.
• Proven ability to translate complex data into executive-ready insights.
• Expertise in project management and process improvement methodologies (PMP, Lean, Six Sigma, Agile).
• Strong analytical mindset
• Budget and vendor management experience
• Change leadership in fast-paced, evolving environments
• Proven ability to influence senior stakeholders and drive accountability without direct authority.
• Willingness to travel 30-50% of the time.

Pay Transparency

This is the pay for this position

$150,000 — $170,000 USD

Actual compensation packages are based on several factors that are unique to each candidate, including but not limited to skill set, depth of experience, certifications, and specific work location. This may be different in other locations due to differences in the cost of labor. The total compensation package for this position may also include bonus, stock, benefits and/or other applicable variable compensation.

Summit does not accept referrals from employment businesses and/or employment agencies in respect of the vacancies posted on this site. All employment businesses/agencies are required to contact Summit’s Talent Acquisition team at [e-mail] to obtain prior written authorization before referring any candidates to Summit.

Summit Therapeutics Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer and takes pride in creating and maintaining diverse environment. We do not discriminate in recruitment, hiring, training or promotion or any other employment practices for reasons of race, color, religion, gender, national origin, age, sexual orientation, marital or veteran status, disability, or any other legally protected status.