Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. argenx is a biotechnology company developing medicines for patients with severe autoimmune diseases, including its lead medicine VYVGART. The Project Manager, Governance Forums, based in Boston or Ghent, creates and maintains the operating structure for three senior governance forums, prioritizes strategic agendas, prepares decision materials, facilitates meetings, and ensures follow-through. The role also supports strategic planning, cross-functional information flow, agile ways of working, and capability building across the organization.
Responsibilities
- Prioritize each forum’s agenda ruthlessly — reserving the room for the cross-asset, cross-capability, and company-wide strategic topics that only these groups can decide, and steering everything else to the right owner closer to the work
- Test proposed topics against a clear bar: does this genuinely require this group, at this level, now? Protect senior leaders’ time from status updates, FYIs, and decisions that belong elsewhere
- Curate agendas that are realistic, sequenced by impact, and sized to the time available — fewer, sharper topics rather than a crowded list
- Build and maintain a clear, formalized structure for each forum — charters, decision rights, membership, and a consistent operating model — creating what does not yet exist and documenting what does
- Own the meeting cadence and calendar across the three forums, protecting senior leaders’ time and keeping the groups aligned without overlap (e.g., a weekly SLT block with the Operations and Portfolio Committees alternating)
- Maintain a single, connected view across all three forums so structure, terminology, and ways of working stay consistent
- Ensure high-impact prework and pre-reads so members arrive prepared and meeting time goes to judgment and decisions, not background or status updates
- Partner with decision owners ahead of each session to frame each topic clearly — what is being decided, who decides, what advice is needed, and what a good outcome looks like
- Drive every meeting toward clear, owned actions — keeping discussion focused, on time, and ending each topic with a decision, an owner, and a next step
- Ensure that no topic leaves the room ambiguous: capture the decision, who is accountable, and the deadline in real time
- Embed the forums’ decision principles into practice (clarity before action, advice over consensus, decision closest to the work, bias toward action, “one and done,” close the loop)
- Ensure clear, transparent information sharing after every meeting — publishing agendas, decisions, and action items to the right people and teams so decisions are understood and information flows
- Close the loop — ensure that every decision and action is shared back with the people who gave advice and those who will be impacted, and track actions through to completion
- Act as the connective tissue between these and other forums (eg SMC, DMC, GPC), sharing relevant context, so the groups operate as one coherent system
- Set a strategic plan for the year across the three forums — anticipating the major decisions and milestones each group needs to work through
- Adjust the plan as priorities shift, flexing the agenda and cadence to address new and urgent needs as they arise
- Help members and teams to learn and apply new skills — with particular focus on AI and digital tools to increase decision quality, reduce administrative work, improve organizational learning, and create a scalable governance model
- Introduce and embed practices drawn from scrum / agile teams (e.g., clear cadences, prioritization, iteration, and continuous improvement) into how the forums operate
- Watch-building not time-telling — build decision-making and structuring capability in others rather than doing it all centrally
Skills
- Senior project / program management experience, ideally supporting executive or governance forums
- Sharp prioritization judgment — able to tell what truly needs senior leadership and what does not, and comfortable pushing topics to the right level
- Strong facilitation and meeting-design skills, with a track record of making senior leaders' time more productive and driving discussions to clear actions
- Strong connector skills – able to navigate and engage across all parts of the organization to keep momentum between meetings
- Excellent written communication — able to produce crisp pre-reads, agendas, and decision summaries
- Proven ability to manage information flow, follow-through, and accountability across multiple stakeholders
- Comfort applying agile / scrum practices and adapting them to a leadership-governance context
- Fluency — or strong enthusiasm — for using technology and AI tools to streamline preparation and follow-up
- High discretion and sound judgment when handling confidential, high-stakes information
- A coaching, capability-building mindset — builds skill in others rather than creating dependency
- Advanced degree (Master or PhD) in health-related discipline or equal by experience
- At least 10 years of drug development/commercialization experience in relevant disease areas
- At least 5 years of Program Management experience in a Pharmaceutical or Biotech environment, preferably cross-cultural
Benefits
- Short-term and long-term incentive programs
- Retirement savings plans
- Health benefits
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