The Opportunity:
As the Associate Director Portfolio and Strategy Operations, you will work closely with leaders across our organization to support strategic initiatives while reporting to the Senior Director of Strategy and Operations. You will play a key role in building and shaping a first-class R&D Strategy and Operations group at Relay Tx as we grow.
You will help ensure flawless operation of activities across Research & Development. You will help define the shape of our R&D portfolio working hand in hand with leaders across Relay Tx. You will enable collaboration and alignment across teams to help evolve Relay Tx from a bold start-up to a new type of biotechnology company. We’re not into following the script. Help us write our own.
Are you flexible and fearless in the face of rapidly evolving opportunity and ambiguity? Then we want you to join us on our journey. We take what we do seriously, but we don’t take ourselves too seriously, so you’ll have fun along the way too.
About You:
- You will play a critical role in ensuring that R&D activities operate flawlessly. Meaning, you will help to update and refine key processes and governance structures within R&D as we grow and scale the team. You will also help steer Leadership Team agendas and major R&D meetings (including leadership off-sites and Advisory Board meetings)
- Do you see problems as opportunities? Let’s talk. You will be expected to bring structure to complex and ambiguous problems, synthesize findings, develop creative / innovative options, make logically supported recommendations. This could include helping define a development governance structure or an approach to deploying and evolving our platform to solve challenges in new therapeutic areas.
- You are someone who has the communication chops to build narratives, refine messaging and tell compelling stories as we communicate progress back to the Executive Leadership Team and Board. You will also manage and maintain R&D corporate goals.
- You will support the management and maintenance of the R&D section of the long-range strategic plan, in close collaboration with your R&D Operations colleagues
- Synthesize data, trends and industry best practices into solutions that can be applied to the way in which we manage our R&D Portfolio
Your Background:
- You have experience 4+ years in management consulting, operations, program management and executive communication
- You have a science or management consulting background
- You are an open and candid communicator and know how to leverage your strong EQ, organizational savviness, and collaborative nature to lead and develop alignment across teams and organizations
About Relay Therapeutics
Relay Therapeutics is a clinical-stage precision medicines company transforming the drug discovery process with the goal of bringing life-changing therapies to patients. Built on unparalleled insights into protein motion and how this dynamic behavior relates to protein function, we aim to effectively drug protein targets that have previously been intractable, with an initial focus on enhancing small molecule therapeutic discovery in targeted oncology. Our Dynamo platform integrates an array of leading-edge experimental and computational approaches to provide a differentiated understanding of protein structure and motion to drug these targets. We have built a world-class team of leading experts from each of these disciplines, and they are driven by a deep collaboration at every step of our drug discovery process.
Our team is equal parts fearless and relentless, with a shared passion for working collaboratively in intellectually stimulating environments. If you’re excited by the challenge of putting protein motion at the heart of drug discovery and passionate about making a difference in the lives of patients, join us!
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What We Do
Relay Therapeutics is a clinical-stage precision medicines company transforming the drug discovery process. Built on unparalleled insights into protein motion and how this dynamic behavior relates to protein function, our approach combines unprecedented computational power with leading-edge experimental approaches across the fields of structural biology, biophysics, chemistry and biology. By applying these insights, we believe we have a differentiated approach to drug protein targets based on their motion, enabling us to select and advance unique product candidates that can be developed into novel therapies for patients. Located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, our world-class team is equal parts bright and bold, with a shared passion for working in intellectually stimulating environments. If you're creative, collaborative and passionate about making a difference in the lives of patients, join us!
