Associate Manager Technical Project Management (Biologics Development)

Location: San Francisco, CA, United States. Applicants must be legally authorized to work in the United States throughout employment; visa sponsorship is not available.

Base salary: $125,000–$155,000 annually, plus an annual performance bonus.

Company

hirify.global is a global management consulting group providing strategy, management, data science, and transformation services. Its Life Science and Healthcare Business Unit supports pharmaceutical, biotech, CRO, academic, medical device, diagnostic, and NGO clients with scientific, regulatory, technological, and product development challenges.

What you will do

• Own project plans, integrated schedules, Gantt charts, milestones, budgets, scopes, and management plans across multiple concurrent biologics development programs.
• Prepare, review, and distribute programmatic reports, technical protocols and reports, process development plans, schedules, risk registers, and management updates.
• Coordinate communication among computational design, experimental, CMC, quality, regulatory, nonclinical, design, discovery, and external partner teams.
• Coordinate CMC activities including developability assessment, process and analytical development, scale-up, technology transfer, and manufacturing-partner activities.
• Interpret technical results to challenge timelines, identify risks, support prioritization and go/no-go discussions, and implement mitigation plans.
• Facilitate meetings, maintain stakeholder alignment, and deliver projects according to approved scope, budget, quality, and timelines.

Requirements

• 7+ years of relevant professional experience in biologics research and development, including at least 3 years in project management; postdoctoral experience does not count toward these years.
• Advanced degree, preferably a PhD, in biology, biochemistry, immunology, biophysics, or a related discipline, or equivalent technical depth.
• Working technical knowledge of monoclonal antibody and/or protein design, engineering, or optimization, including sufficient depth to manage campaign content.
• Experience with biologics CMC activities, including developability assessment, process and analytical development, technology transfer, and manufacturing.
• Experience managing multiple concurrent R&D efforts and creating development plans, Gantt charts, project management plans, risk and communication plans, resource plans, and sponsor reports.
• In-depth understanding of project management principles and tools, with successful delivery of projects on schedule and within budget.
• Fluency with project management tools such as MS Project or Smartsheet, as well as Excel, Word, and PowerPoint.
• Excellent written and oral communication, presentation, problem-solving, negotiation, consensus-building, teamwork, and stakeholder-management skills.
• Ability to work independently and collaboratively across multidisciplinary teams, manage ambiguity, and take ownership of deliverables and results.

Nice to have

• Experience managing US Government contracted programs or project financial management, including budget development, actuals tracking, forecasting, and reporting.
• Working knowledge of computational and machine learning approaches to protein design.
• Certified PMP or equivalent project management experience.
• Strong understanding of the product development lifecycle, pharmaceutical manufacturing operations, cGXP guidelines, and FDA regulatory requirements.

Culture & Benefits

• Full-time employment in a consulting environment focused on life sciences and healthcare transformation.
• Medical, dental, and vision coverage; company-paid life and AD&D insurance; supplemental insurance and EAP.
• 401(k) with company match and immediate vesting, plus HSA and FSA options.
• Paid parental leave, generous PTO, nine company holidays, and one floating holiday.
• Cell phone stipend, college savings and student loan repayment programs, well-being support, and professional development programs.
• Inclusive workplace with equal-opportunity employment practices.