Director – Program & Alliance Management

What if you could join a rapidly growing company and play a critical role in bringing new medicines to patients through looking at and treating disease in a revolutionary way?

About Vesalius

Vesalius Therapeutics is pioneering a revolutionary platform to generate breakthrough treatments for common diseases.  Vesalius’ platform uses large-scale human genetics, genomics, stem cell studies and artificial intelligence to uncover causal biology and identify optimal intervention points for new therapies. Efficiently identifying these intervention points and the patients most likely to benefit from these novel therapies will enable smaller, shorter clinical trials with a higher probability of success. Vesalius was founded in 2019 by Flagship Pioneering. For more information visit vesaliustx.com, or follow us on X and LinkedIn.

About the Position

Vesalius is seeking an experienced Director, Program and Alliance Management to play a vital role in the company’s efforts to support our external alliances and our internal innovative portfolio of drug discovery programs. The candidate will be responsible for providing strong leadership, organization, risk identification, tracking and mitigation and expertise to support cross-functional teams to execute on program deliverables required to meet the goals of the organization. The successful candidate will work closely with team members across Vesalius and external partners to rapidly advance programs. S/he will be comfortable working in and contributing to a highly dynamic and cross-functional team environment

Responsibilities

• Provide high quality program management to support our partnerships and internal innovative portfolio of drug discovery programs.
• Working closely with team leads to plan and drive team meetings, information flow and communication, identification, discussion and mitigation of opportunities and risks to program objectives, timelines and budget.
• Possessing a comprehensive understanding of the drug discovery and clinical development process, this individual will support program teams’ key scientific questions, strategy and objectives into optimal cross-functional plans, timelines and budgets.
• Proactively identify, track, actively help mitigate and appropriately communicate program risks.
• Develop acceleration opportunities for various milestones, risk/benefit assessments, and risk mitigation plans.
• Ensure all decisions made on the program are assessed as to their impact.
• Work closely with Finance and the cross-functional program teams to establish program related budgets and resourcing plans. Is accountable to monitor plans and ensure programs have the required resources and budget.
• Ensure efficient and effective communications of program related information to all levels of the organization.

Qualifications

• BS/MS degree or higher in a scientific discipline, ideally life sciences or chemistry
• 8-10 years relevant program management experience in biotech drug discovery and development, as well as a comprehensive understanding of drug discovery
• PM experience with both preclinical and clinical stage programs
• Experience managing partnered programs
• Scientific curiosity and passion for discovering new, innovative medicines.
• Proven track record in driving successful, collaborative drug discovery teams.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Experience with time management/tracking, using timeline management programs (Smartsheet, ThinkCell, MS Project, etc.).
• Demonstrated ability to work in a dynamic environment with a sense of urgency and creativity and focus on deliverables.
• Team player with a strong work ethic, able to work both independently and collaboratively 
• Continuously learns and adapts quickly to new information

Preferred Qualifications

• PMP certification

About Flagship

Flagship Pioneering is a bioplatform innovation 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

Vesalius is 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 Vesalius, 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: Vesalius Therapeutics does not accept unsolicited resumes from any source other than candidates. The submission of unsolicited resumes by recruitment or staffing agencies to Vesalius or its employees is strictly prohibited unless contacted directly by the Vesalius internal Talent Acquisition team. Any resume submitted by an agency in the absence of a signed agreement will automatically become the property of Vesalius, and Vesalius will not owe any referral or other fees with respect thereto.