Associate Director, Program & Alliance Management

Zymeworks Inc.•Vancouver, BC

1d•CA$123,750 - CA$189,750•Onsite

About The Position

This role is responsible for ensuring program teams and operational activities remain aligned with overall corporate strategy, project timeline, and resource plans. The Associate Director will provide input into the development of management processes, critical path issues/solutions, and resource and project management. They will foster strong relationships with team members and various department leads, supporting project-related communications and issue identification and management. The position involves maintaining program timelines, budgets, and tracking mechanisms for both internal and external activities, as well as tracking, monitoring, and communicating contractual obligations, deliverables, and milestones. The role requires proactively identifying issues and leading the resolution of conflicts while working collaboratively, elevating matters to appropriate leadership when required, and ensuring internal alignment prior to joint decisions. Collaboration with CMC/Clinical/Research departments to execute development plans and with CMC team members to execute external manufacturing strategies is essential. The Associate Director will track timelines and activities for development projects to achieve key deliverables and progress toward milestones and regulatory filings in alignment with company goals. This role also involves working closely and effectively with cross-functional development team members, consultants, and vendors, and developing, managing, and maintaining high-level and detailed timelines of the development plan, ensuring functional resources and forecasts are aligned with project and program timelines. Analyzing and managing the critical path, evaluating potential means to accelerate the pace or mitigate identified risks, and planning contingencies with input from various functions are key responsibilities. The role ensures regular and proactive communication amongst team members by monitoring, tracking, and reporting project status to key stakeholders, including senior management, and assessing and mitigating project risks while creating contingency plans in collaboration with project teams.

Requirements

Bachelor’s in biomedical sciences or other discipline related to life sciences and/or drug discovery.
A minimum of ten (10) years’ related experience in the pharmaceutical/biotech industry with relevant experience.
Direct experience working in a biopharmaceutical technical operations discipline with a working knowledge of biologics drug development.
Ability to work as part of a high performing team and collaborate effectively with staff.
Must have well-developed interpersonal skills with the ability to establish highly functional relationships with diverse personalities both within and outside the company.
Able to develop solutions to complex problems by employing ingenuity, creativity and innovation.
Domestic and international travel (~10%) as needed.
Experience working with and managing cross-functional teams.
Excellent collaboration, communication and relationship management skills.

Responsibilities

Ensure program teams and operational activities remain aligned with overall corporate strategy, project timeline, and resource plans.
Provide input into development of management processes, critical path issues/solutions, resource and project management.
Foster strong relationships with team members and various department leads, supporting project-related communications and issue identification and management.
Maintain program timelines, budgets, and tracking mechanisms, for both internal and external activities.
Track, monitor, and communicate contractual obligations, deliverables and milestones.
Proactively identify issues and leading the resolution of conflicts while working collaboratively; where required elevate matters to appropriate leadership; ensure internal alignment prior to joint decisions.
Work collaboratively with CMC/Clinical/Research departments to execute against development plans.
Collaborate closely with CMC team members, to execute the external manufacturing strategies.
Track timelines and activities for development projects in order to achieve key deliverables and progress toward milestones and regulatory filings in alignment with company goals.
Works closely and effectively with cross-functional development team members, consultants and vendors.
Develop, manage, and maintain both high level and detailed timelines of the development plan and ensures that the functional resources and forecasts are aligned with project and program timelines.
Analyze and manage the critical path, evaluate potential means to accelerate the pace or mitigate identified risks, and plan contingencies with input from various functions.
Ensures regular and proactive communication amongst team members by monitoring, tracking and reporting project status to key stakeholders, including senior management.
Assess and mitigate project risks and creates contingency plans in collaboration with project teams.