Job Role - To manage therapeutic discovery projects and related enterprise initiatives, from proposal through initiation and execution to closure, to ensure achievement of project objectives.

Roles -

- Define, track, and expedite the process flow of Integrated Drug Discovery (IDD) projects

- Propose, facilitate, and at times lead enterprise initiatives aimed toward building and enhancing Integrated Drug Discovery (IDD) capabilities

- Build and maintain strong relationships with internal and external stakeholders

- Coordinate Integrated Drug Discovery (IDD) scientific proposal preparation, from definition of requirements, assembly and management of cross-functional proposal team, alignment on project strategy and objectives, drafting, reviewing, finalizing, pricing, presentation, and feedback

- Understand and ensure fulfilment of contract obligations

- Bring together appropriate cross-functional and cross-organizational stakeholders to create project charters and define system requirements for initiation

- Facilitate the preparation of detailed, integrated project plans, featuring the following components in explicit detail:

- Therapeutic, mechanistic, and target engagement hypotheses

- Target candidate profile and target product profile

- Stage gate and milestone criteria, current status, and program strategy to achieve criteria thoroughly and efficiently, on the shortest possible timeline

- Stepwise, critical path steps required to meet stage gate and milestone criteria, including timeline, resource requirements, risk/mitigation analysis, and buy-up options for acceleration through parallel execution

- Research operating plan, including function-specific strategies and objectives (e.g. screening paradigm, Structure-Activity Relationship (SAR) strategy, Pharmacokinetics (PK)/ Pharmacodynamics (PD)/efficacy strategy

- Drive project execution by running effective meetings inclusive of clearly articulated desired outcomes, detailed agenda noting topic owners, posted supporting documentation, and rapidly posted minutes and actions (including responsible parties and timelines)

- Ensure right level of control through effective use of governance frameworks and established escalation mechanisms

- Ensure timely and transparent sharing of information including appropriate dashboards and status updates

- Facilitate the preparation of detailed stage gate and milestone achievement documentation

- Provide continuous, proactive risk-identification, escalation and mitigation

- Enable resolution of issues in a timely manner

- Ensure systematic closure of activities as needed

- Analyze data to pick patterns towards enabling continuous improvement

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