Senior Manager/Associate Director, Portfolio & Strategy Operations

Socket.dev; Cambridge (MA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

Relay Therapeutics is seeking a Senior Associate/Associate Director of Portfolio and Strategy Operations to oversee operations for a first-in-class program through early clinical development in Cambridge, MA. You will align Medical, Clinical Operations, and Pharmaceutical Development teams, communicating progress to leadership.

You’ll craft strategies, build timelines, and drive risk management while refining processes and messages for the Executive Leadership Team and Board.

Qualifications

• Experience (minimum 3 years) in management consulting, operations, program management and executive communication.
• Science or management consulting background.
• Open and candid communicator with strong EQ and collaborative leadership.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain program timelines, identify interdependencies, risks and critical path activities.
• Facilitate cross-functional discussions to drive program progression in a matrix organization.
• Update and refine processes; steer content for leadership and external meetings.
• Craft narratives and visuals to communicate progress to Executives and the Board.
• Manage and maintain the long-range strategic plan in collaboration with the project team.

Skills

Executive communication

Cross-functional collaboration

Program management

Education

Science background

Management consulting background

Job description

The Opportunity:

As the Senior Associate/Associate Director of Portfolio and Strategy Operations, you will help ensure flawless operation of activities for a first-in-class program as it moves through clinical development while reporting to the Director of Portfolio Strategy and Operations. You will enable collaboration and alignment across key cross-functional team members such as Medical, Clinical Operations, and Pharmaceutical Development and with stakeholders in leadership.

Your Role:

• Are you flexible and fearless in the face of rapidly evolving opportunity and ambiguity? You will effectively contribute both operationally and strategically on a program moving through early clinical development.
• Do you see problems as opportunities? You will be expected to bring structure to complex and ambiguous problems, synthesize findings, develop creative / innovative options, and make logically supported recommendations. This could include helping define a molecular diagnostics strategy or monitoring drug supply/patient demand dynamics.
• Develop and maintain program timelines to ensure that all efforts are coordinated, and to identify key interdependencies, risks, and critical path activities.
• You thrive operating in a matrixed role and seamlessly facilitate cross functional discussions to drive towards shared goals and program progression.
• You will help to update and refine processes to support the team achieving key deliverables. You will also help steer content for leadership and external KOL meetings.
• You are someone who has the communication chops to build narratives, craft visuals, refine messaging and tell compelling stories as we communicate progress back to the Executive Leadership Team and Board.
• You are critical to the management and maintenance of the project long-range strategic plan, in close collaboration with your project team colleagues.

Your Background:

• You have experience (minimum 3 years) in management consulting, operations, program management and executive communication
• You have a science or management consulting background
• You are an open and candid communicator and know how to leverage your strong EQ, organizational savviness, and collaborative nature to lead and develop alignment across teams and organizations

Estimated Salary Range

[ $120,000 - $200,000 ].

The range provided above is based on what we believe to be a reasonable estimate for this job at the time of posting. Actual base salary will depend on a number of factors, including but not limited to, a candidate’s education, experience, skills and location.

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About Relay Therapeutics

Relay Therapeutics is a clinical-stage precision medicines company transforming the drug discovery process with the goal of bringing life-changing therapies to patients. Built on unparalleled insights into protein motion and how this dynamic behavior relates to protein function, we aim to effectively drug protein targets that have previously been intractable, with an initial focus on enhancing small molecule therapeutic discovery in targeted oncology. Our Dynamo platform integrates an array of leading-edge experimental and computational approaches to provide a differentiated understanding of protein structure and motion to drug these targets. We have built a world-class team of leading experts from each of these disciplines, and they are driven by a deep collaboration at every step of our drug discovery process.

Our team is equal parts fearless and relentless, with a shared passion for working collaboratively in intellectually stimulating environments. If you’re excited by the challenge of putting protein motion at the heart of drug discovery and passionate about making a difference in the lives of patients, join us!