Senior Manager/Associate Director, Portfolio & Strategy Operations

Relay Therapeutics • Cambridge, MA

2d • $120,000 - $200,000

About The Position

As the Senior Associate/Associate Director of Portfolio and Strategy Operations, you will help ensure flawless operation of activities for a first-in-class program as it moves through clinical development while reporting to the Director of Portfolio Strategy and Operations. You will enable collaboration and alignment across key cross-functional team members such as Medical, Clinical Operations, and Pharmaceutical Development and with stakeholders in leadership. You will effectively contribute both operationally and strategically on a program moving through early clinical development. You will be expected to bring structure to complex and ambiguous problems, synthesize findings, develop creative / innovative options, and make logically supported recommendations. This could include helping define a molecular diagnostics strategy or monitoring drug supply/patient demand dynamics. You will develop and maintain program timelines to ensure that all efforts are coordinated, and to identify key interdependencies, risks, and critical path activities. You thrive operating in a matrixed role and seamlessly facilitate cross functional discussions to drive towards shared goals and program progression. You will help to update and refine processes to support the team achieving key deliverables. You will also help steer content for leadership and external KOL meetings. You are critical to the management and maintenance of the project long-range strategic plan, in close collaboration with your project team colleagues.

Requirements

• Minimum 3 years of experience in management consulting, operations, program management and executive communication
• Science or management consulting background
• Open and candid communicator
• Strong EQ, organizational savviness, and collaborative nature

Nice To Haves

• Flexible and fearless in the face of rapidly evolving opportunity and ambiguity
• Ability to see problems as opportunities
• Ability to bring structure to complex and ambiguous problems, synthesize findings, develop creative / innovative options, and make logically supported recommendations
• Ability to help define a molecular diagnostics strategy or monitoring drug supply/patient demand dynamics
• Communication chops to build narratives, craft visuals, refine messaging and tell compelling stories

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain program timelines to ensure that all efforts are coordinated, and to identify key interdependencies, risks, and critical path activities.
• Facilitate cross functional discussions to drive towards shared goals and program progression.
• Update and refine processes to support the team achieving key deliverables.
• Steer content for leadership and external KOL meetings.
• Manage and maintain the project long-range strategic plan, in close collaboration with project team colleagues.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed