Director, Program Management

ALX Oncology Inc. • South San Francisco, CA

2d

About The Position

The Director PM, Project and Portfolio Management is responsible for the facilitation of Product Team and Sub-Team meetings in close partnership with the Chief Development Officer or their delegate. The Director PM will also be responsible for creating and maintaining integrated project plans and ensuring compliance with governance and change control processes.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in a science related field required. Advanced degree in science related field preferred.
• 8 years of relevant experience in biotechnology or pharmaceutical field with minimum of 4 years direct project management experience.
• Strong understanding of comprehensive drug development process.
• Equivalent combination of education and relevant experience and training may be considered.
• Strong and effective written and verbal communication skills are required, since contact with all levels of management, employees and government agencies are necessary.
• Demonstrated experience and ability to manage and influence cross-functionally.
• Demonstrated experience working on both early and late-stage product development, including regulatory filings (BLA/NDA, BLAs/sNDAs), and product life cycle management is strongly preferred.
• Proven ability to function effectively across a matrix organization with multiple stakeholders and constituents, with the ability and strength to focus a team to work towards its goals.
• Strong facilitation and communication skills (including presentation skills) with success in influencing all levels cross-functionally.
• Highly collaborative with outstanding relationship building skills.
• Comprehensive understanding of the drug development process.
• Strong understanding of Project Management principles.
• Experience with project portfolio management software systems.
• Management experience and superior teamwork skills are essential as is the ability to lead and build teams and to effectively identify and resolve conflicts.
• Experience with regulatory agencies and annual compliance training required.
• Strong communication, organization and negotiation skills are mandatory.
• Must have excellent PC-based computer skills including Windows, MS Office (Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint), MS Project, MS SharePoint, and Reporting tools.

Responsibilities

• Facilitate cross-functional Global Product Team and Sub-Team meetings partnering with the Product Team Leader and other functional leads to develop, adapt and drive an integrated project plan which considers near and long-term cross functional impacts as well as region and country perspectives
• Develop integrated, cross-functional timelines and budgets for Development programs
• Interface with financial planning team to ensure changes in budgets are captured in the forecast models. Manage cross functional team inputs for annual budgets, reforecasts, and long-range plans.
• Set agenda for Core and Sub-Team meetings, record and communicate the action items, and follow-through on action items
• Integrate the various program timelines to a single portfolio timeline that is maintained in real time and can be accessed by finance and management as necessary to make decisions
• Provide support to Leadership Team meetings
• Participate in discussions of drug development strategy, project portfolio development and prioritization
• Manage large scope projects from initiation, planning, execution to control, and closing phases
• Oversee and mitigate project risks and issues. Identify and implement mitigations
• Manage and control changes from original scope
• Assist in selection and implementation of project and portfolio management software systems
• Manage monthly status reporting including program dashboards and management updates
• Assist in creation of PM tools and templates
• Work with functional areas to manage program level resource demand forecasting
• Serve as conduit between Product Team Lead and all cross-functional and global functional areas
• Communicate to stakeholders on project status and influence strategy decisions
• Communicates with governance committees and functional leaders to address program needs, issues, resources and recommendations.
• Drives team objective setting, prioritization and ensure adherence to plan and strategy
• Drives risk management, issue identification and resolution and contingency planning

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Director
• Number of Employees: 11-50 employees