Associate Director/director, Scientific Project - New York, United States - Paratus Sciences Corporation
2 weeks ago
Description
Company Overview
Position Overview
As an Associate Director/Director, Project Management, reporting to the CSO, you will be responsible for the oversight of several projects within Paratus.
Your responsibilities will include planning upcoming projects, coordinating and tracking activities across projects, and contributing to the development of processes and systems for forecasting and execution across our portfolio of internal and external R&D efforts.
You will collaborate extensively with internal scientists and external partners to guide our efforts to develop groundbreaking therapeutics for patients.
Responsibilities:
- Develop and manage detailed project plans and integrated timelines for projects that are medium to large in scope/complexity. These may include but are not limited to drug discovery efforts, corporate goals, external collaborations, and projects executed by external CROs
- Play a critical role in engagement and followup for external sponsored research agreements and partnerships
- Implement recommendations for program and project related decisions
- Contribute to the development of processes and tools to enable planning and execution of projects
- Partner with Finance and Paratus scientists to develop project budgets and track resource utilization (finance and people) across projects
- Facilitate and document team meetings to enable crossfunctional communication, clear decisionmaking, and alignment with internal and external stakeholders
- Responsible for creating collaborative partnerships and building and managing multiple project teams that may include external collaborators
Qualifications:
- A minimum of a Bachelor's degree in a life science discipline, MSc. or PhD preferred
- PMP certification preferred
- A minimum of 8 years of experience, with a minimum of 5 years of project management experience in a biotech/pharma and/or academic research environment
- Complete understanding and demonstrated skills in fundamental project management principles and practices
- Proficiency with project management software, tools, methodologies, and best practices
- Experience with Smartsheet and MS Project preferred
- Proficiency with Microsoft Tools, especially Outlook, Teams and SharePoint
- Experience facilitating and documenting team meetings to enable crossfunctional communication, decisionmaking, and alignment with internal and external stakeholders while managing project scope, deliverables, risks, and resources
- Outstanding organization and planning skills to effectively manage competing priorities, resources, and activities
- Strong interpersonal skills to build and maintain positive and effective working relationships within and across multidisciplinary teams
- Ability to design and implement mediumscale process improvements
- Agile mindset and flexible approach to design and implement fitforpurpose solutions
- Detailoriented mindset with excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Initiative and boldness to dive into a fastpaced new startup
- Outstanding communicaiton, networking, and stakeholder management abilities
- Strong facilitation and decisionmaking skills; ensuring alignment with both internal and external stakeholders
Further information
This role is On-Site 4 days a week (5 preferred).
Salary Range:
$165,000 to $210,000
The salary range listed here has been provided to comply with local regulations and represents a potential base salary range for this role.
In addition to a competitive compensation package with stock options, Paratus Sciences also offers a comprehensive benefits package for our employees and their families, which includes medical, dental, vision, flexible spending account, life insurance, disability insurance, time off plans and a 401(k) plan.
