Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Definium Therapeutics is a late-stage clinical biopharmaceutical company focused on developing accessible treatments using psychedelics. The Associate Director of Development Project Management will lead integrated planning and execution across programs, ensuring successful delivery of projects while managing risks and stakeholder communication.
Responsibilities
- Lead development and maintenance of integrated project plans that align program strategy, milestones, deliverables, dependencies, and decision points across key functions. Ensuring alignment with the sub-team plans
- Partner with sub-team functional leads to ensure plans are realistic, aligned, and positioned to support successful program execution
- Drive cross-functional execution by monitoring progress against milestones, deliverables, timelines, resources, and critical path activities
- Facilitate productive team meetings and ensure clear accountability for decisions, actions, and follow-up activities
- Proactively identify, assess, and manage risks, issues, assumptions, dependencies, and opportunities that may impact program objectives
- Partner with teams to develop mitigation strategies, contingency plans, and escalation recommendations to enable informed decision-making
- Support governance and leadership forums by preparing decision-focused materials, status updates, risk summaries, and recommendations
- Ensure timely communication and alignment of key program priorities, decisions, milestones, and risks across stakeholders
- Identify opportunities to improve planning, execution, team effectiveness, and operational processes to enhance organizational performance
Skills
- Bachelor's degree in a scientific, business, operations, or related discipline required
- Minimum of 8 years of project/program management experience in the pharmaceutical, biotech, or life sciences industry
- Strong understanding of end-to-end drug development business processes
- Experience supporting cross-functional development teams, functional workstreams, or program-level initiatives in a matrixed environment
- Demonstrated ability to develop and manage integrated project plans, milestones, critical paths, dependencies, risks, issues, assumptions, and decision points
- Experience working across one or more development functions, such as clinical development, clinical operations, CMC, regulatory affairs, preclinical, translational, commercial, or medical affairs
- Strong proficiency with Microsoft Office and project management tools, such as Microsoft Project, Planisware Enterprise, Smartsheet, or equivalent systems
- Advanced degree in science, business, operations, or related discipline
- Minimum 10 years of overall experience in the pharmaceutical or biotech industry
- Experience in late-phase development organizations or late-stage asset planning
- Experience supporting NDA, BLA, MAA, major regulatory submissions, or submission-readiness planning
- Experience using Planisware Enterprise or other portfolio/project management systems in a development environment
- PMP, Agile, Lean Six Sigma, or other relevant project management certification
Benefits
- 100% paid health benefits including Medical, Dental and Vision for you and your dependents
- 401(k) program with company match and vesting after the turn of the first month after your start date
- Flexible time off
- Generous parental leave
- Some fun fringe perks!
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