Director, Program Management – Launch Leadership Team

Revolution Medicines is a clinical-stage precision oncology company focused on developing novel targeted therapies to inhibit frontier targets in RAS-addicted cancers.  The company’s R&D pipeline comprises RAS(ON) Inhibitors designed to suppress diverse oncogenic variants of RAS proteins, and RAS Companion Inhibitors for use in combination treatment strategies. As a new member of the Revolution Medicines team, you will join other outstanding professionals in a tireless commitment to patients with cancers harboring mutations in the RAS signaling pathway.

The Opportunity:

This is an exciting, high-profile, and highly visible Program Management opportunity to support enterprise readiness for RevMed’s first commercial launch.  The ideal candidate is a very proficient and self-motivated program manager with commercial launch experience. The Director, Program Management partners with functional leaders to prepare the organization for commercialization.  They understand the requirements of a successful launch and can identify cross-functional inter-dependencies and foster productive collaborations to ensure successful execution.

Overall, the Director, Program Management makes things happen via productive collaborations in an organization that is rapidly developing its capabilities and infrastructure. They not only care about the outcomes but how we get there. The successful candidate will draw upon their experience to:

• Partner with functional leaders in defining readiness plan, engaging key stakeholders, and identifying cross-functional interdependencies to prepare the organization for its first launch.

• Facilitate Launch Leadership meetings to review progress, identify risks

• Establish and maintain the launch readiness plan to enable accurate launch planning and execution.

• Collaborate with external consultants who are supporting various aspect of Launch and Organization Readiness activities.

• Ensure identification and management of risks, working with subject matter experts to construct appropriate mitigation plans.

• Evaluate alternative launch scenarios to accommodate various regulatory review and approval strategies.

• Oversee regular updates of launch plans, status reports and project communications.

• Partner with the co-chairs of the Launch Leadership Team to prepare status reports and meeting agendas and follow-up on action items and decisions.

• Lead an efficient information flow within cross-functional teams and internal governance bodies.

• Demonstrate effective meeting and information management including prioritizing the right topics for discussion, ensuring the objectives of the meeting are achieved, communicating decisions to key stakeholders and ensuring that action items are assigned and completed in a timely manner.

• Partner with the functional leaders to ensure teams achieve and maintain a high-level of sustainable performance.

• Apply your launch experience to coach and mentor functional leaders to ensure efficient and effective launch execution.

• Identify, recommend, and implement opportunities for streamlining coordination of launch readiness activities.

• Participate in establishment and implementation of project management systems and best practices.

• Coach and mentor members of the Program Management team to ensure a strong bench of future leaders.

• Support new corporate development activities or other initiatives supporting department, portfolio, or corporate needs.

Required Experience, Skills, and Education:

• B,A. or BSc. in Life Sciences and at least 8 years’ experience in the biotech/pharmaceutical industry with at least 5 years’ direct project management experience managing cross-functional project teams.

• Commercial launch experience in the bioteach or pharmaceutical industry, coupled with strong proficiency in project management practices, tools, and methodology.

• Expertise in developing and managing project scope, deliverables, risk & resource requirements including, Schedule / Timeline management, and Risk management.

• Excellent interpersonal skills, including clear, succinct, and timely communication and proven ability to foster important relationships with key stakeholders.

• Outstanding verbal and written communication skills with the ability to summarize complex information into simple concepts; has the ability to effectively interact across team line functions as well as with external key stakeholders.

• Proven track record of good decision making and exercising sound judgment.

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