Description
The Project Manager serves as a key member of the Therapeutics Development Center (TDC) within Harrington Discovery Institute (HDI), supporting the development and implementation of drug discovery project plans for HDI scholars, and helping the scholar project teams achieve their objectives. You’ll manage a set of exciting projects in collaboration with academic researchers, experienced industry drug developers, and CROs as part of a “virtual pharma” team to drive projects toward value inflection points. The role offers opportunities to participate in cross-functional drug development teams nationally and internationally; shape and run TDC program initiatives in focus areas of unmet medical need; and analyze HDI program success versus emerging trends in novel therapeutic modalities worldwide. The Project Manager will contribute to HDI internal business development activities and will provide other HDI program support as needed.
List the essential duties of the position:
1. Plan, organize and manage project team activities – includes running team meetings, developing RFPs and managing contract work with vendors, and coordinating assembly of funding proposals.
2. Track project progress, facilitate creation of project plans that delineate the critical path to Investigative New Drug applications, develop and implement tools for representing progress as part of the Harrington Scholar programs portfolio.
3. Liaise with representatives from HDI strategic partnership organizations such as Oxford University, Alzheimer’s Drug Discovery Foundation; research and track new scientific discovery progress in their disease areas.
4. Develop materials for the Harrington Discovery Institute including business documents, charts/analysis, and reports for senior management, stakeholders and strategic partners.
5. Involves occasional travel to scholar institutions.
