Senior Director Program and Portfolio Management

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Company

**MEMBERS ONLY**SIGN UP NOW***. is a biopharmaceutical company focused on the discovery, development and commercialization of small molecule therapies designed to modulate cellular protein levels as a novel treatment approach for cancer and immune disorders. Leveraging Nurix’s extensive expertise in E3 ligases together with its proprietary DNA-encoded libraries, Nurix has built DELigase, an integrated discovery platform to identify and advance novel drug candidates targeting E3 ligases, a broad class of enzymes that can modulate proteins within the cell. Nurix’s drug discovery approach is to either harness or inhibit the natural function of E3 ligases within the ubiquitin proteasome system to selectively decrease or increase cellular protein levels.

Nurix’s wholly owned pipeline comprises targeted protein degraders of Bruton’s tyrosine kinase, a B-cell signaling protein, and inhibitors of Casitas B-lineage lymphoma proto-oncogene-B, an E3 ligase that regulates T cell activation. Nurix is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Description

Reporting to the head of Program and Portfolio Management, the Sr. Director, Program and Portfolio Management will provide program management support as a key member on drug development teams and subteams.  The Sr. Director, PM will be responsible for all project management activities for a specific molecule which may include directing the activities of other project managers at the team or subteam level.  The Sr. Director, PM will assist teams to effectively and efficiently deliver on project goals on schedule and within budget.  The Sr. Director, PM partners with the team leader to anticipate, identify, manage, and communicate project risks.  This individual will also contribute to the development of PM processes, systems, and tools (as needed) to improve the governance and functioning of Nurix’s program teams, project planning, and metric / status reporting.  

The Sr. Director, PM will:

• Apply leadership skills and project management expertise
• Take accountability for all project management activities and work effectively and closely with the project leader / team leader
• Enable generation of innovative options for complex challenges through project management expertise
• Ensure consistency of project planning at all stages of the project lifecycle across all programs

 Essential Functions

• Partners with the PTL to define team priorities and strategy, and keep the Asset Team focused and aligned, ensuring that critical project goals are agreed to, understood by the teams, functions, subteams and senior management, and are implemented and tracked appropriately​
• Develops and distributes agendas for Asset Team meetings, facilitates effective meetings, writes meeting minutes, drives appropriate follow up on action items, and ensures appropriate escalation ​of critical items
• Develops, maintains, pro-actively tracks & manages project milestones and deliverables (employing tools such as but not limited to Gantt charts, flow charts, and trackers)
• Ensures effective project communications at all levels of the organization; drives information flow and communicates project status to all stakeholders in collaboration with the PTL, sub-teams, and senior management via oral and written communications​
• Proactively identifies potential roadblocks, issues and risks and works with the team to develop mitigation strategies​, solutions and recommendations
• Supports the team in preparing reports, presentations and other communications for all levels of the organization
• Maintains the integrity and accuracy of project information to meet team, management and portfolio requirements
• Prepares project updates for governance meetings and clearly communicate status in written documents and presentations
• Ensures team conflicts are resolved in a professional and timely manner
• Navigates teams through the governance structure​
• Evaluates program team membership, roles and responsibilities, team effectiveness and drives/leads evolving improvements as needed (buy-in required from senior-level functional managers of functions as they contribute to success of the program teams)​
• Supports the implementation of improvements to project management processes, tools and infrastructure to ensure ongoing efficiency across the Development organization and throughout the company
• Champions/participates in implementing change within the organization​ as we scale and grow
• Effectively guide a team through the formation of a comprehensive product development plan
• Excellent interpersonal skills, including clear, succinct and timely communication and proven ability to foster important relationships with key stakeholders

Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

• 10 to 15 years of Project Management experience (or comparable functional experience) supporting cross-functional project teams in a drug development company
• Experience creating and actively managing integrated timelines and budgets
• Strong influencing skills; proven ability to get things done without formal authority and with minimal oversight
• Ability to work effectively with cross-functional teams in a matrixed organization
• Thorough understanding of drug development processes
• Ability to navigate in a rapidly growing, dynamic, organization
• Excellent communication skills which enable PM to collaborate successfully with executive level stakeholders
• Experience facilitating project team meetings, cross-functional communication and decision making, and ensuring alignment with internal and external stakeholders
• Experience driving and developing portfolio and team strategy; willingness to strategize with the team as needed to solve complex issues
• Ability to process complex information; capture insights and translate that information and insights into various formats based on the audience and organizational need
• Partners with the team leader to ensure the team achieves and maintains a high-level of sustainable performance, by contributing to appropriate team management best practices
• Leadership skills, maturity, composure, emotional intelligence
• Ability to perform in a fast-paced environment with competing priorities under tight deadlines
• Highly proficient with Microsoft Office (e.g. Project, Word, PowerPoint, Excel, Outlook, Visio)
• Experience within a start-up biotech company a plus

 Required/Preferred Education and Certifications

• Bachelor’s Degree required. Scientific degree preferred.  Advanced degree (Science, MBA) is a plus.
• Project Management Professional (PMP) certification is a plus

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