Director Program Management/ Directeur(Rice) de La - Sherbrooke, Canada - Ability Biologics

Description

_Are you looking to join a dynamic and growing team focused on delivering tomorrow's best in class antibody therapeutics in oncology and immunology?_


Director Program Managementreporting to the COO, you will play an integral part in Ability Biologics's business strategy and pipeline development. You will partner with Ability's executive, science and operations teams to ensure the delivery of our lead assets on time and on budget.


Starting date:
May 1, 2024 (flexible)


Qualifications:

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Education: BSc in a relevant field of Biology or equivalent degree required. MBA/MSc/PhD considered an asset.
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Experience: 6 years for a BSc, 4 years for an MSc/PhD:
(At least 5 years' experience in managing antibody or small molecule therapeutic research programs, from discovery to IND. Proven experience in managing complex projects involving multiple internal/external partners, including CROs)


Skills required:


Soft skills

• High level of collaboration and communication skills.
• Dynamic, energetic and passionate about biotherapeutics development.
• Autonomy to integrate strategic objectives into work prioritization.
• Ability to manage a team and their deliverables in a highpressure environment.
• Ability to establish and maintain solid business relationships with the company's external and internal stakeholders.
• Strong problemsolving skills.
• Ability to lead meetings with middle and senior management.
• Ability to mobilize and align colleagues towards the company's strategic vision in order to facilitate decisionmaking.

Knowledge

• Good knowledge of project management software, such as Asana, and integration with other systems such as Quickbooks, Slack, Gsuite.
• Good knowledge of fundamental financial concepts, e.g. profit/loss, balance sheets, budget variances, cash flows.

Responsibilities:

• Manage multiple internal therapeutic research programs from lead discovery to IND. Work with research leads to design programs, assign timelines and milestones, budget.
• Once projects are running ensure major milestones are met, track costs, assign tasks both internally and to CROs.
• Ensure that program decisions (Go/No Go) are made at the right time by being responsive and attentive to program needs and communicative with team members.
• Help recruit and build crossfunctional teams designed to achieve outcomes for Series A and beyond.
• Collaborate with finance team to generate monthly research spend reports.
• Collaborate with science team to generate monthly scientific progress report.
• Analyze the market and competition for therapeutic and antibody development platforms to identify potential opportunities, risks, threats and make recommendations (SWOT).
• Partner with the executive team to prepare Series A decks.
• Cultivate and maintain strong relationships with team members, partners and investors. Track investor conversations and feedback.
• Identify and establish processes necessary to help the business achieve Series A and future funding.

Benefits:

• Salary: To be discussed
• Vacation : To be discussed
• Group insurance
• Retirement savings program available
• Remote work: Hybrid
• Work schedule: Flexible

French version/Version française

• Vous souhaitez rejoindre une équipe dynamique et en pleine croissance, dont l'objectif est de mettre au point les meilleurs anticorps thérapeutiques de demain dans les domaines de l'oncologie et de l'immunologie ?_

En tant que
Directeur(rice) de la gestion des programmes et sous la responsabilité du COO, vous jouerez un rôle essentiel dans la stratégie commerciale et le développement du pipeline interne.

Vous travaillerez en partenariat avec les équipes exécutives, scientifiques et opérationnelles d'Ability Biologics afin de garantir la livraison de nos actifs principaux dans le respect des délais et du budget.

Date d'entrée en poste : 1er mai 2024 (flexible)


Qualifications:

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Scolarité: B.Sc. dans un domaine pertinent de la Biologie. MBA/MSc/PhD sera considéré comme un atout.
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Expérience : 6 ans pour un BSc, 4 ans pour une MS/PhD:
(Au moins 5 ans d'expérience dans la gestion de programmes de recherche sur les anticorps ou les petites molécules thérapeutiques, de la découverte à l'_IND_. Expérience avérée dans la gestion de projets impliquant plusieurs partenaires internes/externes, y compris les CRO.)


Compétences requises:


Aptitudes

• Haut niveau de collaboration et de communication.
• Dynamique, énergique et passionné par le développement de produits biothérapeutiques.
• Grande autonomie permettant d'intégrer les objectifs stratégiques dans la priorisation de son travail.
• Capacité à gérer une équipe et leurs livrables dans un environnement sous pression.
• Capacité à établir et maintenir des relations d'affaires solides avec les parties prenantes externes et internes de l'entreprise.
• Fortes compétences en matièr