Senior Project Manager

Crinetics is a pharmaceutical company based in San Diego, California, developing much-needed therapies for people with endocrine diseases and endocrine-related tumors. We were founded by a dedicated team of scientists with the simple belief that better therapies developed from rigorous innovation can lead to better lives. Our work continues to make a real difference in the lives of patients. We have a prolific discovery engine and a robust preclinical and clinical development pipeline. We are driven by science with a patient-centric and team-oriented culture. We are also a dog-friendly workplace. This is an exciting time to join Crinetics as we shape our organization into the world’s premier fully-integrated endocrine company from discovery to patients. Join our team as we transform the lives of others.

Position Summary:

The Senior Project Manager (SPM) is responsible for the facilitation of cross-functional global product workstreams in close partnership with the Product PM Lead and the Global Product Team Leader. The SPM will be responsible for creating and maintaining integrated project plans and ensuring compliance with governance and change control processes. This position may be remote with expectation of being in San Diego 1-2 times per quarter.

Essential Job Functions and Responsibilities:

These may include but are not limited to:

• Facilitate cross-functional global product workstreams with the functional leads to develop, adapt, and drive integrated workstreams in support of the overall product strategy, which consider near and long-term cross functional impacts as well as region and country perspectives  
• Develop integrated, cross-functional timelines and scenarios in support of the product strategy
• Interface with Finance team to ensure changes in budgets are captured in the forecast models. Work with Product PM Lead to manage cross functional team inputs for annual budgets, reforecasts, and long-range plans
• Responsible for meeting management including facilitation, setting agendas , recording, communicating, and following-through on action items, and tracking decisions
• Support integrating multiple indication timelines to a global product timeline that is maintained in real time and can be accessed by finance and management as necessary to make decisions
• Participate in drug development strategy sessions
• Provide support to project portfolio development and prioritization
• Manage large scope projects from initiation, planning, execution to control and closing phases
• Drive and oversee risk management, issue identification, and resolution and contingency planning for identified workstreams.
• Manage monthly status reporting including program dashboards and management updates
• Assist in the creation of PM tools and templates
• Serve as conduit between Global Product Lead and/or Product PM and cross-functional stakeholders for identified workstreams.
• Communicate to stakeholders on project status and influence strategy decisions

Education and Experience:

Required:

• Bachelor’s degree with a minimum of 8 years’ experience in biological sciences or a related field is required. Minimum 3 or more years of experience in Project Management in Biotech/Pharmaceutical Industry is required (an equivalent combination of experience and education may be considered).
• Drug Development knowledge with understanding of other functions relevant to the position which may include: Discovery, Preclinical, Clinical Research, Clinical Operations, Manufacturing, Commercial, and Regulatory,
• Experience leading and facilitating project team meetings, cross-functional communication and decision making, and ensuring ongoing alignment with internal/external stakeholders
• Strong facilitation and communications skills (both written and verbal)
• Proven ability to function effectively across a matrix organization with multiple stakeholders and constituents, with the ability and strength to focus a team to work towards its goals 
• Demonstrated experience working on early or late-stage product development, including regulatory filings (BLA/NDA, sBLAs/sNDAs), and product life cycle management is preferred 
• Highly collaborative with strong teamwork and relationship building skills
• Proficiency with project management practices, tools and methodology including Gantt Charts, Smartsheet, Power Point, SharePoint, One Pager, Power BI, integrated portfolio management, PPM platforms (e.g Plansiware)

Physical Demands and Work Environment:

Physical Activities: On a continuous basis, sit at desk for a long period of time; intermittently answer telephone and write or use a