Director, Program Manager and Alliance Management

JOB TITLE: Director, Program Manager and Alliance Management

DEPARTMENT: Program Management

REPORTS TO:

SUPERVISES: n/a

FLSA STATUS: Exempt

VERSION DATE: August 15, 2025

JOB SUMMARY:

Experienced Program Manager to support Aveo's growing oncology pipeline, The ideal candidate has both early and late phase pharmaceutical program management experience that includes knowledge of the drug development process and inter-dependencies of key functions including research, clinical manufacturing, regulatory, and commercial and external partners. This individual also has demonstrated success in managing projects and alliances using best in class methodologies and software combining strong foundational knowledge of various segments of the life sciences industry. The ideal candidate has strong financial and analytical capabilities, refined communication skills and the ability to thrive in a fast-paced, dynamic, and highly collaborative environment.

PRINCIPAL DUTIES:

• Ownership of the program plans and finances.
• Apply best practices in the development, initiation, planning, execution, control and closing of projects, and to interact with all program stakeholders including pre-clinical and clinical development, business, manufacturing and regulatory departments to ensure alignment on program goals, timelines, and resources required.
• Provide program management expertise for project managers and multiple projects that may include external co-development partnerships.
• Ensure that key goals for alliances are achieved and that relationships are maintained
• Track partnership effectiveness and identify opportunities to improve communication and collaboration.
• Effective communications and follow up action items for alliances. Coordinate and prepare meeting agendas, presentations, meeting minutes and actions along with cross functional stakeholders to ensure successful team meetings and governance.
• Ensure that cross-functional core team(s) are aligned on goals and timelines to deliver milestones on or ahead of schedule.
• Work cohesively with various disciplines to leverage functional expertise within R&D, Commercial, Clinical, Quality, Regulatory, Operations, etc., and establishes integrated project plans and objectives.
• Bridge the gap between strategy and tactical execution at the project level. This position requires knowledge and experience in effectively managing project risks, diverse disciplines, cultures, locations, personalities, communication styles, conflicting priorities and/or requirements.
• Identify and leverage inter-dependencies in short-, mid-, and long-term program plans and advise teams on areas of risk or possibilities to accelerate development.
• Challenge assumptions and provide recommendations to improve processes and outcomes.
• Create and manages the integration of project schedules and budgets.
• Measure progress, communicates, and escalates proactively impact of changes (e.g. scope, cross functional resources, timelines, costs, etc.) to key stakeholders.
• Ensure the timely collaboration and coordination of design requirements, cross functional resourcing, and scheduling between projects, sites, and platforms.
• Deliver presentations at communication and governance meetings utilizing project dashboards, and messaging.
• Contribute to the functional excellence of project management by participation in the development and continuous improvement of processes, procedures, and tools related to program and portfolio management practices.
• Coordinate with Legal to facilitate agreements and contract amendments while properly informing key stakeholders of status
• Perform other duties & projects as assigned

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS/EXPERIENCE:

• Minimum 5 years pharmaceutical R&D or related industry experience
• Basic knowledge of multi-disciplinary bio/pharmaceutical drug development required
• Exceptional computer proficiency - advanced knowledge of and experience with MS-Office applications (including Word, PowerPoint, Excel, Smartsheets and Project)

ADDITIONAL PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS/EXPERIENCE:

• Oncology project management experience a plus
• Experience with biologic drug development and biologic manufacturing processes a plus
• Strong written and verbal communication skills and EQ
• Undergraduate degree / advanced degree in life science or business
• Direct experience in bio/pharmaceutical program planning
• PMP certification
• Strong experience with Smartsheets and/or MS Project
• Background in risk, budget, and resource management
• Ability to effectively manage multiple projects and stakeholders with competing priorities.