Senior Scientific Portfolio Manager
The Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson's ResearchAbout the role
<p><strong>Job Title: </strong>Senior Scientific Portfolio Manager</p> <p><strong><br>Position Summary:</strong><br>The Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research ("the Foundation") is seeking top talent for its Senior Scientific Portfolio Manager position. <span data-contrast="auto">Reporting to the Director of Translational Biomarkers, this position </span><span data-contrast="none">develops a scientific strategy </span><span data-contrast="auto">for biomarker-focused portfolios spanning discovery, validation, and clinical implementation. </span></p> <p><span data-contrast="auto">The Senior Scientific Portfolio Manager</span><span data-contrast="none"> oversees complex portfolios and programs throughout all stages of grant-making and funding, including proposal development, review, contracting, milestone management, and close-out. This role requires shaping of an </span><span data-contrast="auto">impact-driven biomarker agenda—advancing fluid biomarkers to accelerate therapeutic development and improve clinical trial design. This position synthesizes emerging biomarker science to inform funding priorities, collaborates closely with internal and external stakeholders, and communicates portfolio strategy and progress to partners and donors.</span><span data-ccp-props="{"134233279":true}"> </span></p> <p><strong><br>Key Responsibilities:</strong></p> <ul> <li data-leveltext="" data-font="Symbol" data-listid="6" data-list-defn-props="{"335552541":1,"335559685":360,"335559991":360,"469769226":"Symbol","469769242":[8226],"469777803":"left","469777804":"","469777815":"hybridMultilevel"}" data-aria-posinset="1" data-aria-level="1"><span data-contrast="none">Shapes, recommends, and communicates a creative, solutions-focused, value-added scientific agenda/POV within assigned biomarker portfolios and programs, leveraging input from internal team and external advisors and regularly communicates progress</span><span data-ccp-props="{"335559739":0}"> </span></li> </ul> <ul> <li data-leveltext="" data-font="Symbol" data-listid="6" data-list-defn-prop
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