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Director or Senior Director, Project Management (DPM-092)
RESPONSIBILITIES:
The Director or Senior Director, Project Management will be an active member of the Clinical Development team. This position will have multiple responsibilities for directing projects and managing the logistics of the oncology development for project core teams and sub-teams. Responsibilities include, but are not limited to the following:
- Providing critical scientific and drug development insight into Ambit's clinical stage candidates and help define Target Product Profiles and Go/No Go success criteria.
- Participating with clinical, regulatory and translational medicine activities.
- Directing all activities, including capabilities, for project planning, budget management and timelines for non-clinical, clinical development plans, regulatory filings and NDA approval.
- Managing several other development sub-team activities including Diagnostics, Pharmacology, Toxicology, CMC, and Clinical Operations.
- Helping create and managing aggressive timelines for projects and communicating timelines to core team members and Senior Management.
- Independently set agendas and facilitate high performing team meetings and be able to provide quality scientific and strategic input.
- Assisting the advancement of Ambit's oncology and auto-immune discovery projects to Development candidates, IND filing and beyond.
- Partnering with other functions (i.e. Clinical, Regulatory, Research, CMC, Diagnostics, Pharm/Tox, Finance, Legal/Contracts, etc).
REQUIREMENTS:
- Strong experience in oncology and auto-immune diseases and drug development ranging from late pre-clinical to NDA and/or BLA approval.
- Ph.D. in Life Sciences with minimum of eight (8+) years of biotech/pharmaceutical drug development and/or Project Management experience.
- Demonstrated managerial, organizational, and leadership skills in an entrepreneurial environment. Proven ability to build, transform and motivate a cross-functional team.
- Demonstrated scientific and technical skills.
- Ability to solicit input on drug development plans from major stakeholders to achieve alignment.
- Proven success in business process/system development, influence management, collaboration and change management.
- Excellent presentation, verbal and written communication skills are essential.
Interested candidates may apply directly online at www.ambitbio.com or email resumes to careers@ambitbio.com. Please reference Job Code #DPM-092.