Senior Director, IS Planning and Management

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:

We are seeking a seasoned professional to establish and lead the Planning and Management office within the Information Sciences (IS) Department.  As a key member of the IS Leadership Team, reporting directly to the Chief Information Officer, your focus is to ensure that the IS organization excels both strategically and operationally:  “doing the right things” and “doing things right”.  Your role will involve setting strategic planning and governance principles and processes, driving cross-functional prioritization, timely project completion, and achieving operational excellence through expert budget planning and financial management.

• Build and manage a core team of project management and operations specialists to support the business needs of IS and its partners.

• Work closely with IS Leadership to generate harmonized program management standards and templates for project portfolio management, project execution, and communication of results.

• Drive adoption of project management software, dashboards, and reporting tools to provide real-time visibility into project status, risks, and financials.

• Produce a performance monitoring framework, defining relevant metrics and implementing effective reporting mechanisms to track performance of individual projects and across the portfolio.

• Drive enterprise adoption of IS project management standards for all technology initiatives.

• Serve as the focal point for management of the IS budget: budget planning and development, monitoring and analyzing spending, and reporting and communication of performance against budget.

• Promote best practices in how IS manages contracting, procurement, and budgeting to ensure consistent, transparent, and efficient value delivery.

• Leverage knowledge of relevant enterprise solutions to streamline processes to increase capacity necessary to support growth.

• Generate comprehensive on-boarding tools and information sources to enable new department hires to get up to speed quickly.

Required Experience, Skills, and Education:

• Entrepreneurial spirit, thrives in a fast-paced, high growth, small company environment.

• Highly organized, with strong attention to detail and accuracy.

• Committed to meeting and exceeding high standards for quality and continuous improvement.

• Builds rapport and credibility as a strategic partner.

• Proactively identifies business needs and identifies innovative process or technology solutions.

• Effective in driving business, culture, and technology change in a dynamic environment.

• Fosters team collaboration. Breaks down silos and shifts opinions using influence.

• Skilled at conflict negotiation and achieving alignment.

• Acts with urgency and passion. Enjoys supporting others.

• Capable of managing multiple projects, activities, and tasks simultaneously and autonomously.

• Strong written and verbal communication, presentation, and facilitation skills. Ability to communicate with all levels of staff, both technical and executive management.

• Expertise in budget planning, financial management and workforce management.

• Informed about emerging technologies, industry trends, and best practices in information services and technology.

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree or equivalent and a minimum of 15 years in the delivery of technology services and support.

• A minimum of 5 to 7 years of team management and leadership experience.

Preferred Skills:

• Experience in pharma, life sciences, or a related industry preferred.

• Relevant certifications in project and change management are a plus.

• Experience with an IT governance framework such as COBIT or ITIL is desirable.

The base salary range for this full-time position is $236,000 to $295,000 for candidates working onsite at our headquarters in Redwood City, CA. The range displayed on each job posting is intended to be the salary for an indiv