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

What if you could be the first hire in Regulatory Affairs with the opportunity to build a strategy and your team as we expand our clinical pipeline?

What this position is all about: 

Cellarity is looking for an initiative-taking program manager to join a very innovative and dynamic group of scientists to support multiple activities in early-stage drug development programs. This individual will be responsible for building project plans, including timelines, milestones, and deliverables, aligning cross-functional teams towards common objectives, and developing communications strategies within the company. This is a highly visible role that will be responsible for partnering with multiple functional and program teams to ensure clear communication both within the team and with Sr. management. The ideal candidate will have experience in early discovery drug development, including activities leading to IND filing, have a science background, and understand dynamics of working in a matrix system.

What you would be responsible for:

Drug development programs:

• Partner with Program Leadership to establish program strategy and associated program plans.
• Responsible for creating execution strategies for the operational objectives, including timelines/milestones, and deliverables.
• Partner with Program Lead to develop acceleration opportunities for various milestones, risk/benefit assessments, and risk mitigation plans.
• Work with CROs to establish work plans, timelines, and tracking their deliverables.
• Work collaboratively with cross-functional teams to create a sense of urgency; proactively identify potential future challenges for the program and look for solutions.
• Develop communication strategies and present the progress to senior management.
• Create and track programs budget.

Additional activities:

• Support alliance collaborations as needed.

What experiences we are looking for:

• S. in Biological/Chemical Sciences, or relative science. Advanced degree (Ph.D. or MBA) desirable.
• 4-6 years’ experience with scientific operations and/or portfolio/program management experience in biotech/pharma industry.
• Extensive R&D experience in pharma/biotech industry.
• Experience in working in a multi-disciplinary/matrix environment.
• Knowledge of early drug discovery process through IND.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment.
• Experience with time management/tracking, using timeline management programs (Excel, Smartsheet, ThinkCell etc.).

What sets you apart:

• M.S. or Ph.D. in biological sciences or related field. 
• Experience with platform enabled drug discovery efforts.
• Ability to influence others without authority.
• Strong team-building skills and ability to establish effective team working relationships among the cross-functional team members.
• Initiative-taker

What it’s like to work at Cellarity:

At Cellarity, we

• Push Boundaries: We create a legacy with breakthrough science in service of patients.
• Inject Energy: We build strengths from different perspectives and tell it like it is.
• Own it: We transcend our job descriptions and relentlessly follow through on our commitments.
• Go all out: We work quickly and with conviction.

Company Summary: Cellarity’s mission is to fundamentally redesign the way drugs are created for the sake of bringing new hope to patients. By shifting the focus from a single target to the underlying cellular dysfunction, we unravel the complexity of disease biology and create medicines that were never before possible. The company has developed unique capabilities that link biology and chemistry with high dimensional -omics data from which we design medicines against the cellular signature of disease. The Cellarity platform allows us to uncover new biology in diseases even in the absence of known causal targets. The company has drug discovery programs underway in several disease areas, including metabolic disease, hematology, and immunology. Cellarity recently completed a Series C financing and has raised a total of $274M from all funding rounds to date, with contributions from world-renowned investors alongside Flagship Pioneering who created the company. Cellarity’s goal is to grow into a fully integrated, clinical phase, next generation Biotech company driving a new age in drug creation.

Cellarity 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.

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