Remote Senior Director, Program Management - BLA Readiness

Nektar Therapeutics; EUA; Teletrabalho; USD 200 000 - 320 000; Tempo integral

Resumo da oferta

Nektar Therapeutics is seeking a Senior Director of Program Management to lead development planning and execution from late clinical development through BLA submission. You will partner across Clinical Development, Regulatory, CMC, Safety, and executive teams to translate strategy into integrated, decision-ready plans and disciplined execution.

The role emphasizes cross-functional leadership, risk management, and portfolio transparency to enable timely, high-quality submissions and milestones.

Qualificações

• Bachelor’s degree in a scientific, healthcare, business, or related discipline required; advanced degree preferred.
• PMP or other relevant project/program management certification preferred.
• Equivalent experience may be considered.

Responsabilidades

• Lead integrated program management for indication-specific portfolio with primary accountability for pre-BLA execution, submission readiness, and delivery of key development milestones.
• Build and maintain integrated development plans with critical-path timelines, governance cadence, decision logs, and risk management across Clinical, Regulatory, CMC, Safety, Quality, Clinical Operations, Biometrics, Medical Affairs, and Commercial.
• Translate portfolio strategy into objectives, milestones, resourcing assumptions, and executable cross-functional workplans with development leadership.
• Drive BLA-readiness planning, including coordination of submission workstreams, cross-functional deliverables, scenario planning, issue resolution, and executive progress reporting.
• Lead program governance with clear decision framing, aligned agendas, action tracking, and escalation of risks, interdependencies, and external factors.
• Integrate competitive intelligence benchmarking into planning and governance to inform scenario planning and leadership recommendations.
• Lead cross-functional problem solving in complex environments ensuring priorities, timelines, and accountability.
• Deliver portfolio-level communications, dashboards, and reporting to provide leadership visibility and support disciplined execution.
• Coach and mentor program management team members and strengthen practices, tools, and operating rhythms across the portfolio.
• Drive continuous improvement in development operations, including AI-enabled tools and Smartsheet to enhance planning and reporting.

Conhecimentos

Program management

Cross-functional leadership

Regulatory submissions

Risk management

Executive communication

AI tools

Smartsheet

Project governance

Formação académica

Bachelor’s degree

PMP or certification

Ferramentas

Microsoft Office

Smartsheet

AI productivity tools

Descrição da oferta de emprego

Nektar Therapeutics is seeking a Senior Director of Program Management to lead development planning and execution from late clinical development through BLA submission. You will partner across Clinical Development, Regulatory, CMC, Safety, and executive teams to translate strategy into integrated, decision-ready plans and disciplined execution.

The role emphasizes cross-functional leadership, risk management, and portfolio transparency to enable timely, high-quality submissions and milestones.