Director, Growth Operations

About Us

What if…you could join an organization thats building life science bioplatform companies that are transforming human health and sustainability?

Flagship Pioneering is a biotechnology company that invents and builds platform companies that change the world. We bring together the greatest scientific minds with entrepreneurial company builders and assemble the capital to allow them to take courageous leaps. Those big leaps in human health and sustainability exponentially accelerate scientific progress in areas ranging from cancer detection and treatment to nature-positive agriculture.   

 What sets Flagship apart is our ability to advance biotechnology by uniting life science innovation, company creation, and capital investment under one roof in a way that is largely without precedent. Our scientific founders, entrepreneurial leaders, and professional capital managers are each aligned around an institutionalized process that enables us to innovate and transform for the benefit of people and planet.   

Many of the companies Flagship has founded have addressed humanity’s most urgent challenges: vaccinating billions of people against COVID-19, curing intractable diseases, improving human health, preempting illness, and feeding the world by improving the resiliency and sustainability of agriculture.  

Flagship has been recognized twice on FORTUNE’s “Change the World” list, an annual ranking of companies that has made a positive social and environmental impact through activities that are part of their core business strategies, and has been twice named to Fast Company’s annual list of the World’s Most Innovative Companies. 

 

The Role

We are looking for a highly strategic Operations Director to join our Flagship Scaling effort. Within Flagship Pioneering, Scaling is one of the 3 core pillars, together with Pioneering and Entrepreneuring. It focuses on the development of (Growth Companies) GrowthCos and the orchestration of the Flagship ecosystem to support their development and open up new sources of value creation and recognition. In addition to being a thought partner, you will also collaborate closely with all Growth Partners, and support Responsible Partners and all teams engaged into the Growth agenda, including external partners.

We are looking for a dynamic and highly experienced leader to join Flagship Pioneering to serve in distinct capacities:

• Directly support Responsible Partners, and more specifically Growth Partners, in developing the GrowthCos’ Value Roadmaps, including the platform, pipeline, partnership, financing and organizational strategies – with all relevant scenarios and quantification necessary to develop value creation/recognition/realizations paths.
  
  
• Act as an Operational Leader, ensuring that the management of GrowthCos is robust and consistent by setting up and supporting the management of the organization – incl governance, tools, analysis, project management…- that oversees GrowthCos Value Roadmaps execution. This responsibility will also require ensuring effective networking within Flagship ecosystem to leverage existing resources, incl Growth Function Leads (HR, Finance, Legal/IP, BD, Communication, Digital), Analytics team, Value Team, Finance, Cap Formation, BD, Pioneering Medicines and International teams, to support GrowthCos’ development and value goal achievements.
  
  
• Contribute to the Growth ecosystem by supporting the development of Centers of Excellence – eg in pipeline design, clinical development, regulatory, manufacturing, medical/marketing/market access/commercial – through internal resources or with external partnerships.
  
  
• Leverage the Growth portfolio to provide useful insights, based on advanced analytics, to GrowthCos and internal/external partners in order to optimize resource allocation, target setting and more generally the development of better Value Roadmaps. This may entail working closely with the finance team to develop better budget/LRP frameworks, the Cap Formation team to better plan for funding needs, the analytics team to develop operational metrics for benchmarking, the Value Team on value plans or valuation metrics, the BD team on deal benchmarkings, the PM team or external partners on clinical development needs, the manufacturing team on CMC needs….
  
  
• Support the Flagship central functions in developing capabilities and resources that will accelerate Growth development incl strategic portfolio management activities led by the Chief Strategist, the Talent Management activities led by HR, CEO and Board development activities led by Corporate Development, the communication activities led by Communication and Public affairs team…

With success, this Leader will continually make Flagship Pioneering and Growth team faster paced, lower friction, more strategi