Project Manager @ Flagship Pioneering

What if… you could join an organization that creates, resources, and builds life sciences companies that invent breakthrough technologies to transform human health and sustainability?

Company Summary:
Quotient Therapeutics, Inc. is a privately held, early-stage company developing a novel genomics platform and therapeutics for diseases with a large unmet need.

Quotient Therapeutics, Inc. was founded by Flagship Pioneering, an innovative enterprise that conceives, creates, resources, and grows first-in-category life sciences companies. Flagship Pioneering has created over 100 groundbreaking companies over the past twenty years, all of which are pioneering novel and proprietary biological, industrial, and engineering approaches to solve major needs in human health and sustainability. These companies include Moderna (MRNA) Generate Biomedicines, Sana Biotechnology (SANA), Tessera Therapeutics, Evelo Biosciences (EVLO), Indigo Agriculture, Seres Therapeutics (MCRB), and Syros Pharmaceuticals (SYRS). To date, Flagship has deployed over $2.5 billion in capital toward the founding and growth of its pioneering companies alongside more than $19 billion of follow-on investments from other institutions. In 2021, Flagship Pioneering was ranked 12th globally on Fortune’s “Change the World” list, an annual ranking of companies that have made a positive social and environmental impact through activities that are part of their core business strategies.

Position Summary:

Quotient Therapeutics is seeking a strategic-minded project manager that will coordinate R&D activities across functions in a growing biotech company.

Responsibilities

Develop and maintain a system to track, monitor, and report the status and timelines for key R&D projects
Create, optimize, and maintain dashboards and other visual management approaches
Ensure tight coordination of handoffs between a multiple teams of scientists and vendors
Help scientists translate high-level scientific projects into concrete plans
Anticipate execution and timeline risks, appropriately troubleshooting or escalating to leadership
Proactively identify recurring risks and gaps; resource bottlenecks and work with teams to develop and implement mitigation plans
Manage agenda and process for collating material for several key coordination, update, and governance meetings across the company

Requirements:

Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in a life sciences field, PhD desirable but not required
Minimum 3+ years’ experience in project management & coordination, preferably with past expertise working hands-on in a lab environment ‘at the bench’
Highly collaborative team player who fosters open communication and facilitates mutual understanding and cooperation between all stakeholders, ideally with experience working in a matrix environment
Demonstrated ability to effectively manage competing priorities
Experience providing support to scientific teams in biotech setting
Impact-oriented with excellent communication, organizational, and interpersonal skills
Proficiency with Microsoft Office including Outlook, PowerPoint, SharePoint, and Project

Location: Cambridge, England

About Flagship

Flagship Pioneering is a biotechnology company that invents and builds platform companies, each with the potential for multiple products that transform human health or sustainability. Since its launch in 2000, Flagship has originated and fostered more than 100 scientific ventures, resulting in more than $90 billion in aggregate value. Many of the companies Flagship has founded have addressed humanity’s most urgent challenges: vaccinating billions of people against COVID-19, curing intractable diseases, improving human health, preempting illness, and feeding the world by improving the resiliency and sustainability of agriculture. Flagship has been recognized twice on FORTUNE’s “Change the World” list, an annual ranking of companies that have made a positive social and environmental impact through activities that are part of their core business strategies, and has been twice named to Fast Company’s annual list of the World’s Most Innovative Companies. Learn more about Flagship at www.flagshippioneering.com.

Flagship Pioneering and our ecosystem companies are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status.

At Flagship, we recognize there is no perfect candidate. If you have some of the experience listed above but not all, please apply anyway. Experience comes in many forms, skills are transferable, and passion goes a long way. We are dedicated to building diverse and inclusive teams and look forward to learning more about your unique background.

Recruitment & Staffing Agencies: Flagship Pioneering and its affiliated Flagship Lab companies (collectively, “FSP”) do not accept unsolicited resumes from any source other than candidates. The submission of unsolicited resumes by recruitment or staffing agencies to FSP or its employees is strictly prohibited unless contacted directly by Flagship Pioneering’s internal Talent Acquisition team. Any resume submitted by an agency in the absence of a signed agreement will automatically become the property of FSP, and FSP will not owe any referral or other fees with respect thereto.