Senior Manager, Project and Alliance Management

What if… you could join an organization that creates, resources, and builds life sciences companies that invent breakthrough technologies in order to transform health care and sustainability?

Montai Therapeutics is a privately held, early-stage biotechnology company developing a platform for understanding and leveraging complex molecular interactions within organisms to solve global challenges in human health and sustainability. The company leverages a multidisciplinary approach that integrates tools ranging from machine learning and big data to multi-omics and high-throughput screening.

At Montai, we nurture a bold, spirited, and leading-edge culture dedicated to strengthening human health:

• We are one team with omnidirectional trust, empowered and accountable
• We are strong as individuals but stronger as a team and we are committed to excellence
• We have a sense of urgency and persistence, and we are crazily confident that we can make a difference
• We need to be comfortable with the uncomfortable and be rigorous and we recognize that failure is data
• We care for diversity in people, thought, personality, opinions, background and distinctiveness
• We have a sense of humor to help us manage through our strategic noise

Position Summary

We are looking for an experienced Research Program Manager to provide critical support to early discovery cross-functional program teams to drive the delivery of program goals. The position will work collaboratively with the program leads, teams, and functional area leads in a fast-paced and exciting environment at the heart of ensuring planning and achievement of our critical corporate goals. This role is focused on enabling teams to advance therapeutic programs from discovery to development candidates. This is an exciting and visible role for a highly qualified and motivated individual.

The Program Manager is responsible to plan, execute, manage risk, and manage critical paths according to strict deadlines and within budget. This includes engaging resources and coordinating the efforts of team members, third-party organizations where appropriate, and internal stakeholders in order to deliver program goals according to plan. Accountable to create program team governance to engage cross functional accountability of costs, schedules, scope, resources and track risks of programs and multiple integrated programs.

Key Responsibilities will include, but not limited to the following:

• Support Director of Program Management to develop and foster productive cross-company relationships to develop and maintain integrated program plans to identify/communicate interdependencies as well as critical path activities for the programs
• Analyze program risks and identify their impact while developing mitigation strategies, identify and manage critical path, ensure appropriate program level definition across all stake holders and manage the program from concept to commercialization
• Creates and executes program work plans and revises as appropriate to meet changing needs and requirements.
• Mitigates team conflict and communication problems. Motivates team to work together in the most efficient manner.
• Leverages program management tools to assist in the development of and adherence to a schedule and report status.
• Own and create appropriate levels of governance to ensure alignment and clear objectives
• Keeps track of lessons learned and shares those lessons with team members

• Work with Program and Team Leaders on program objectives and priorities, scenario planning, governance presentations.
• Work with the Finance group to implement and track program budget and forecasts. assist with operational and team meetings and other activities.
• Act as the source for information regarding the overall progression of the portfolio, milestone achievements, and risk monitoring
• Contribute expertise to the continuing development of the program management function to help further the needs of Montai Therapeutics

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in life sciences, engineering or related field. Advanced degree (MS, PhD or MBA) and/or PMP Certification preferred. 
• A minimum of 3+ years of experience in the biopharmaceutical/pharmaceutical industry. Previous experience in immunological therapeutics and small molecules preferred.
• A minimum of 2+ years of experience in program management of pharmaceutical products focused on small molecule drug development
• Knowledge of biotechnology/pharmaceutical research and development processes

Skills / Capabilities

• Expertise in Microsoft suite (Program, PowerPoint, SharePoint, Word, Excel, Visio, Outlook). Experience with SharePoint and PM tools.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills, including presentation and facilitation skills, to effectively inform key updates & issues across all levels of the organization.
• Ability to work independently and successfully in a fast-paced, results-driven, highly accountable environment with large potential impact. Prioritize and manage multiple tasks simultaneously, integrate cross-functional issues and balance competing priorities effectively.
• Strong analytical, problem solving and critical thinking skills, including an ability to combine attention to detail with a big picture perspective.
• Available to travel if/when needed.

• Available to travel if/when needed.

More About Flagship Pioneering

Flagship Pioneering is a bioplatform innovation company that invents and builds platform companies, each with the potential for multiple products that transform human health or sustainability. Since its launch in 2000, Flagship has originated and fostered more than 100 scientific ventures, resulting in more than $90 billion in aggregate value. Many of the companies Flagship has founded have addressed humanity’s most urgent challenges: vaccinating billions of people against COVID-19, curing intractable diseases, improving human health, preempting illness, and feeding the world by improving the resiliency and sustainability of agriculture.  Flagship has been recognized twice on FORTUNE’s “Change the World” list, an annual ranking of companies that have made a positive social and environmental impact through activities that are part of their core business strategies, and has been twice named to Fast Company’s annual list of the World’s Most Innovative Companies. Learn more about Flagship at www.flagshippioneering.com.

At Flagship, we recognize there is no perfect candidate. If you have some of the experience listed above but not all, please apply anyway. Experience comes in many forms, skills are transferable, and passion goes a long way. We are dedicated to building diverse and inclusive teams and look forward to learning more about your unique background.

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