Director, Portfolio & Strategy Operations
Company: THIRD ROCK VENTURES, LLC
Location: Cambridge
Posted on: May 14, 2022
Job Description:
Director, Portfolio & Strategy Operations at Relay Therapeutics
As Director of R&D Strategy and Operations, a newly-created and
high-impact role, you will work closely with leaders across our
organization on key strategic initiatives and programs reporting to
the Chief Operating Officer, R&D. You will play a key role in
building and shaping a first-class R&D Strategy and Operations
group at Relay Tx as we grow. - You will help ensure flawless
operation of activities across Research & Development. You will
help define the shape of our portfolio working hand in hand with
leaders across Relay Tx. You will provide intellectual leadership
while driving collaboration and alignment across teams to help
evolve Relay Tx from a bold start-up to a new type of biotechnology
company. We're not into following the script. Help us write our
own. - Are you flexible and fearless in the face of rapidly
evolving opportunity and ambiguity? Then we want you to join us on
our journey. We take what we do seriously, but we don't take
ourselves too seriously, so you'll have fun along the way too.
About You:
- You will play a critical role in ensuring that R&D
activities operate flawlessly. Meaning, you will help to update and
refine key processes and governance structures within R&D as we
grow and scale the team. You will also help steer Leadership Team
agendas and major R&D meetings (including leadership off-sites
and Advisory Board meetings)
- You will be expected to guide portfolio strategy, tracking the
shape of the portfolio, and helping design and manage an approach
to tracking and ensuring appropriate allocation of resources across
programs. This will depend on working cross functionally with
leaders in R&D, Project Management, New Product Planning,
Finance, and others.
- Do you see problems as opportunities? Let's talk. You will be
expected to structure complex and ambiguous problems, synthesize
findings, develop creative / innovative options, make logically
supported recommendations, and facilitate decision-making sessions.
This could include helping define a molecular diagnostics strategy
or an approach to deploying and evolving our platform to solve
challenges in new therapeutic areas.
- You are someone who has deep technical knowledge and experience
so that you can help guide teams and refine messaging as we
communicate progress back to the Executive Leadership Team and
Board. You will also help define and manage the R&D corporate
goals.
- You will support the development of the R&D section of the
long-range strategic plan, in close collaboration with the Finance,
R&D, BD, and People teams, helping refine assumptions and
ensuring the output is appropriate for resolving key strategic
questions. Your Background:
- You have extensive (minimum 8 years) experience in Biotech or
the Pharmaceutical industry
- You have experience (minimum 5 years) in R&D operations,
program management, clinical development, and/or research
planning.
- You have a science background, preferably with an advanced
degree
- You are an open and candid communicator and know how to
leverage your strong EQ, organizational savviness, and
collaborative nature to lead and develop alignment across teams and
organizations About Relay Therapeutics Relay Therapeutics is a
clinical-stage precision medicines company transforming the drug
discovery process with the goal of bringing life-changing therapies
to patients. Built on unparalleled insights into protein motion and
how this dynamic behavior relates to protein function, we aim to
effectively drug protein targets that have previously been
intractable, with an initial focus on enhancing small molecule
therapeutic discovery in targeted oncology. Our Dynamo platform
integrates an array of leading-edge experimental and computational
approaches to provide a differentiated understanding of protein
structure and motion to drug these targets. We have built a
world-class team of leading experts from each of these disciplines,
and they are driven by a deep collaboration at every step of our
drug discovery process. Our team is equal parts -fearless -and
-relentless, with a shared passion for working collaboratively in
intellectually stimulating environments. If you're excited by the
challenge of putting protein motion at the heart of drug discovery
and passionate about making a difference in the lives of patients,
join us! - Company policy requires that all employees be fully
vaccinated against COVID-19, and all new hires must be fully
vaccinated (as defined by the CDC) by the time they start
employment. By applying to this position, you are confirming that,
if hired, you can satisfy this express condition of employment. The
Company will make reasonable accommodations under applicable law
for qualified individuals to enable them to perform the essential
functions of the job, unless doing so would create an undue
hardship for the Company.
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