Director, Program Management
Director, Program Management
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About Us
Valo Health is a technology company that integrates humancentric data and AIpowered technology to accelerate the creation of lifechanging drugs. Valo was created with the belief that the drug discovery and development process can and should be faster and less expensive with a higher success rate. We use models early to fail less often as we reinvent drug discovery and development from the ground up. Disease doesnt wait so neither can we.
We are a multidisciplinary team of experts in science technology and pharmaceuticals united in our mission to achieve better drugs for patients faster. Valo is committed to hiring diverse talent prioritizing growth anddevelopment fostering an inclusive environment and creating opportunities to bring together a group of different experiences backgrounds and voices to work together. We achieve the widestranging impact when we leverage our broad backgrounds and perspectivestoaccelerate a new frontier in health.Valos machine learning and AI capabilities are built on highquality highdensity translational biology data from multiple sources: thats where you come in!
About the Role
The Director Program Management (PM) will work together with Therapeutics and Technology Program and Project Leads to ensure strategic and operational excellence across a portfolio of wholly owned and partnered target discovery programs and platform projects.
They will be accountable for planning tracking and reporting progress against key project artifacts including goals milestones risks budget and resources and share responsibility with the Program or Project Lead for driving operational excellence and alignment through crisp datadriven decisionmaking while maintaining a highperforming team environment.
What Youll Do...
- Coordinate and drive strategic planning activities for the project team including development of the project plan goals milestones timeline budget and resourcing
- Work closely with the Program or Project Lead(s) to maximize team effectiveness through active facilitation of meetings driving alignment through datadriven decisionmaking and cultivation of a positive team environment
- Drive document track and communicate program progress through utilization of project management tools and best practices
- Proactively identify and address project roadblocks and risks
- Issue reports communicating program status progress and risks and present findings to executive management on a regular basis
- Lead crossfunctional projects (strategic and/or operational) as required by PM
- Reinforce team operating principles to maximize alignment within the team across functions and across teams
- Contribute to the growth and development of the Program Management team
What You Bring...
- 10 years of crossfunctional project management experience ideally with PM experience in earlystage biotech companies
- Demonstrated ability and success at managing complex crossfunctional teams towards clearly defined goals and milestones
- PM experience on technical programs at the interface of biology and data science
- Ability to translate strategies into tangible deliverables timelines and costs
- Strong interpersonal skills and an ability to influence without authority to enable successful management of meeting and group dynamics and balance concerns of line management with objectives of teams and executive leadership
- Decisive and analytical mindset with an ability to synthesize complex and diverse inputs and provide recommended solutions/preferred options
- Experience in several project management methodologies (Agile Waterfall etc.)
- Demonstrated experience using standard project management tools and software encompassing timeline budget resource critical path definition and risk management (Atlassian suite Smartsheet etc)
- Excellent communication organizational skills and ability to prioritize and multitask
- Life science background (Minimum BS/MS with 10 years of experience in Biotech/Pharma). Knowledge and understanding of target discovery a plus
- Project Management Professional (PMP) certification or equivalent proficiency is a plus
More on Valo
Valo Health LLC (Valo) is a technology company built to transform the drug discovery and development process using humancentric data and artificial intelligencedriven computation. As a digitally native company Valo aims to fully integrate humancentric data across the entire drug development life cycle into a single unified architecture thereby accelerating the discovery and development of lifechanging drugs while simultaneously reducing costs time and failure rates. The companys Opal Computational Platform is an integrated set of capabilities designed to transform data into valuable insights that may accelerate discoveries and enable Valo to advance a robust pipeline of programs across cardiovascular metabolic renal oncology and neurodegenerative diseases. Founded by Flagship Pioneering and headquartered in Lexington MA Valo also has offices in New York NY. To learn more visit.
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Director
Employment Type
Full Time
