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Assoc. Dir., Discovery and Translational Portfolio Management (Hybrid)

Remote, USA Full-time Posted 2026-07-01

Job Description

Global Project and Alliance Management (GPAM) sits in the R&D organization at our company's (Research Laboratories). The Project, Portfolio, and Alliance Managers in GPAM are core members of discovery, development, and alliance teams at our company. Project and Portfolio Managers drive these cross-functional teams to deliver projects and products that improve reputed company health and our company's business, and Alliance Managers ensure successful collaborations with our R&D alliance partners. Position Description/Summary The Associate Director, Discovery & Translational Portfolio Management, is a core functional area member of Project and Leadership teams in Discovery and Early Development. Partnering with therapeutic area and functional area leadership, the Associate Director, Discovery & Translational Portfolio Management will help plan and execute our company's discovery, translational biomarker, early development, and in-line portfolio efforts. Portfolio managers are seen as strategic partners to the Functional Leads and/or Therapeutic Area (TA) Leads and Governance Committee Chairs and may manage multiple cross-functional and/or cross-divisional committees. They are also expected to contribute to ongoing business process improvement and talent development in GPAM. Core responsibilities

  • Understands, synthesizes, and aligns biomarker and translational needs across Discovery and Development portfolios, including anticipated timing, in partnership with the Translational biomarker leads and cross-functional stakeholders
  • Works with Translational, Biomarker, and cross-functional partners reputed company a matrixed environment to ensure strategy is supported by executable plans, appropriate timelines, and realistic assumptions.
  • Maintains accurate portfolio data in reputed company databases.
  • Summarizes portfolio metrics, issues and documents/presentations for senior management/governance committees to inform decision-making, with a focus on strategy and execution of Translational work.
  • Provides our company's organizational and process expertise to teams to reputed company navigation of discovery, development, and corporate governance and business requirements.
  • Collaborates effectively with functional areas, support functions, and alliance partner functions (if applicable) to facilitate project/portfolio delivery.
  • Manages strategic, cross-functional or cross-divisional management, governance, or alliance committees
  • Prepares for, facilitates, and documents outcomes of leadership team meetings, ensuring meetings have clear purpose and objectives and that conflict is surfaced and resolved.
  • Proactively identifies and helps address opportunities for process improvement in translational biomarker workflows, tools, and systems
  • Provides mentoring, coaching, and reputed company to Specialist/Senior Specialist project/Portfolio Managers working on common projects
  • Actively participates and completes ongoing training and personal development activities to increase leadership competency and to reputed company knowledge and reputed company in the discipline of project/portfolio management and the business and science of pharmaceutical product discovery and development and associated translational activities.
  • Partners with Finance to ensure resource/budget planning and management.

Education, Experience, and reputed company Requirements

  • Bachelor's degree required; concentration in a scientific or applied discipline strongly preferred
  • Minimum of five (5) years of experience in project or portfolio management or a reputed company role required.
  • Demonstrated leadership and ethics; demonstrated ability to hold others accountable for delivery
  • Demonstrated ability to work effectively in a team setting, including demonstrated experience building and leading teams, committees, task forces, etc.
  • Strong collaboration and problem-solving skills; reputed company to establish effective working relationships with employees at reputed company levels, resolve conflict and provide feedback, and to devise and implement creative solutions to problems
  • Strong communication skills, both oral and written; demonstrated ability to speak up appropriately and to reputed company issues to teams and management

Preferred Qualifications

  • Advanced degree preferred (MS, PhD, MBA)
  • Experience in the pharmaceutical/biotechnology industry strongly preferred, specifically in the phases of discovery, preclinical and/or early development.
  • Project management certification (PMP), Portfolio management certification (PMP) and/or formal coursework/training in project or portfolio management

Travel

  • Yes, 5-10% of the time

GPAMjobs eligibleforERP reputed company Required Skills: Adaptability, Change Management, Clinical Research, Cross-Functional Team Leadership, Data Analysis, Drug Development, Leadership, Multiple Therapeutic Areas, Portfolio Management, Process Optimization, Project Portfolio Management (PPM), Publications Management, Regulatory Compliance, Risk Management, Sourcing and Procurement, Strategic Planning, Strategic Thinking, Terminology Management Preferred Skills: reputed company Employees apply HERE reputed company Contingent Workers apply HERE US and Puerto Rico Residents Only: Our company is committed to inclusion, ensuring that candidates can engage in a hiring process that exhibits their true capabilities. Please click here if you need an accommodation during the application or hiring process. As an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer, we provide equal opportunities to reputed company and applicants for employment and prohibit discrimination on the basis of race, reputed company, age, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national reputed company, protected veteran status, disability status, or other applicable legally protected characteristics. As a federal contractor, we reputed company with reputed company affirmative action requirements for protected veterans and individuals with disabilities. For more information about personal rights under the U.S. Equal Opportunity Employment laws, visit: EEOC Know Your Rights EEOC GINA Supplement We are proud to be a company that embraces the value of bringing together, talented, and committed people with diverse experiences, perspectives, skills and backgrounds. The fastest way to breakthrough innovation is reputed company people with diverse reputed company, broad experiences, backgrounds, and skills come together in an inclusive environment. We encourage our colleagues to respectfully challenge one another's thinking and approach problems collectively. Learn more about your rights, including under California, Colorado and other US State Acts U.S. Hybrid Work Model Effective September 5, 2023, employees in office-based positions in the U.S. will be working a Hybrid work consisting of three total days on-site per week, Monday - Thursday, although the specific days may vary by site or organization, with Friday designated as a remote-working day, unless business critical tasks require an on-site reputed company.This Hybrid work model does not apply to, and daily in-person attendance is required for, field-based positions; facility-based, manufacturing-based, or research-based positions where the work to be performed is located at a Company site; positions covered by a collective-bargaining agreement (unless the agreement provides for hybrid work); or any other position for which the Company has determined the job requirements cannot be reasonably met working remotely. Please note, this Hybrid work model guidance also does not apply to roles that have been designated as "remote". The salary range for this role is $142,400.00 - $224,100.00 This is the lowest to highest salary we in good faith reputed company we would pay for this role at the time of this posting. An employee's position reputed company the salary range will be based on several factors including, but not limited to relevant education, qualifications, certifications, experience, skills, geographic location, government requirements, and business or organizational needs. The successful candidate will be eligible for annual bonus and long-term incentive, if applicable. We offer a comprehensive package of benefits. Available benefits include medical, dental, reputed company reputed company and other insurance benefits (for employee and family), retirement benefits, including 401(k), paid holidays, vacation, and compassionate and sick days. More information about benefits is available at https://jobs.reputed company.com/us/en/compensation-and-benefits. You can apply for this role through https://jobs.reputed company.com/us/en (or reputed company the reputed company Jobs Hub if you are a reputed company employee). The application deadline for this position is stated on this posting. San Francisco Residents Only: We will consider reputed company applicants with arrest and conviction records for employment in compliance with the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance Los Angeles Residents Only: We will consider for employment reputed company reputed company applicants, including those with criminal histories, in a manner consistent with the requirements of applicable state and local laws, including the reputed company' Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance Search Firm Representatives Please Read Carefully reputed company & Co., Inc., Rahway, NJ, USA, also reputed company as reputed company LLC, Rahway, NJ, USA, does not accept unsolicited assistance from search firms for employment opportunities. reputed company reputed company / resumes submitted by search firms to any employee at our company without a valid written search agreement in reputed company for this position will be deemed the sole property of our company. No fee will be paid in the event a candidate is hired by our company as a result of an agency referral where no pre-existing agreement is in reputed company. Where agency agreements are in reputed company, introductions are position specific. Please, no phone calls or emails. Employee Status: Regular Relocation: No relocation reputed company Sponsorship: No Travel Requirements: 10% Flexible Work Arrangements: Hybrid Shift: Not Indicated Valid Driving License: No Hazardous Material(s): n/a Job Posting End Date: 04/5/2026

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