Director, Program Management - Launch Orchestration

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 help RevMed transition from being an R&D organization to becoming an R&D and Commercial organization.  The ideal candidate is a very proficient and self-motivated program manager with a solid understanding of drug development and commercialization. The Director, Program Management partners with functional leaders on the translation of business strategy into an efficient execution plan; they understand the competitive landscape and business context to manage the cross-functional dependencies and connections. They understand the breadth of cross-functional activities and can 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 business strategy, stakeholder management, and cross-functional coordination and alignment.

• Establish and maintain functionally integrated project plan and project assumptions (accounting for goals, key objectives, deliverables, risks) to enable accurate project, financial and portfolio analyses for business planning processes.

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

• Evaluate alternative scenarios (comprising costs, timelines, risks, and project strategy) during progression of the project to accommodate new business requirements.

• Lead project leaders through the preparation and update of project plans, status reports and project communications.

• Lead an efficient information flow within cross-functional project teams, and internal advisory & 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.

• Serves as the owner of project team information including the project plan, budget and project assumptions as approved by the Senior Leadership Team.

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

• Apply business experience to coach and mentor functional leaders to ensure efficient and effective project execution.

• Identify, recommend, and implement opportunities for streamlining business processes.

• 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.

• Broad knowledge of the biotech 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 wit