Zymeworks

Associate/Project Manager, Program and Alliance Management

Program and Alliance Management - Seattle, Washington United States

Why Work for Us?

Innovation. Act with Integrity. Collaboration. Embrace Diversity. Care

We come from many countries, cultures, races, ethnicities, abilities, and nationalities. We bring our passions including singing, biking, swimming, dancing, cooking, volunteering, parenting, coaching and much more! We are proud of our nearly equal balance of men and women and strengthened by our non-binary and transgender team members. Every employee belongs.

We offer challenging career opportunities, competitive benefits and an environment that recognizes and rewards performance.

Company Description

Zymeworks is a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company dedicated to the discovery, development and commercialization of next-generation bispecific and multifunctional biotherapeutics, initially focused on the treatment of cancer. Zymeworks’ suite of complementary therapeutic platforms and its fully-integrated drug development engine provide the flexibility and compatibility to precisely engineer and develop highly-differentiated product candidates.

As a condition of employment, Zymeworks requires all employees to be fully vaccinated against Covid-19 and provide verification of such.

Key Responsibilities

• Supports development /maintenance of detailed timelines, tracks key milestones, ensuring alignment of functional team members with overall program strategy.
• Supports the project planning process within established governance structure, monitors progress and drives execution.
• Schedules recurring meetings, organizes agendas, distributes minutes and follows upon action items.
• Departmental subject matter expert for internal systems including but not limited to SharePoint and Smartsheets.
• Supports the preparation of project budgets with management oversight.
• Analyzes critical path, evaluates potential means to accelerate project pace or mitigate identified risks, and plans contingencies with input from various functions.
• Creates communication plans, maintains open and proactive lines of communication with internal and external stakeholders.
• Manages contractors and vendors by coordinating the review and execution of SOWs, evaluating project schedules, monitoring and reporting on progress, and managing meetings.
• Prepares project dashboards and progress reports, identifying, anticipating, and resolving issues which threaten project timeline and/or budget.
• Serve as a point of contact for tracking and reporting alliance deliverables.
• Facilitates collaboration by ensuring team members understand project objectives, specifications, deliverables, timelines and tasks.

Education and Experience:

• Bachelor's degree, life sciences preferred, and a minimum of 2 years of drug development related experience required. We will consider an equivalent combination of education and experience.

Skills and Abilities

• Excellent interpersonal, communication, and organizational skills.
• Enthusiasm for learning and growth; proactively identifies opportunities and takes initiative to resolve issues.
• Tendency to meet challenges with a problem-solver mindset.
• Demonstrated ability to manage concurrent deliverables and work effectively in a dynamic, fast-paced environment.
• Ability to work collaboratively as a member of cross-functional teams and to establish and maintain effective working relationships
• Ability to lead by example and to establish an environment fostering effective and collaborative working relationships at all levels of the organization.
• Ability to successfully prioritize and manage competing demands.
• Ability to refine project plan/timelines to meet critical milestones.
• Proficiency with MS Office, utilization of PM software (Smartsheet or other Gantting software).

How to Apply

NOTE TO EMPLOYMENT AGENCIES: Zymeworks values our relationships with our Recruitment Partners. We will only accept resumes from those partners whom have been contracted by a member of our Human Resources team to collaborate with us. Zymeworks is not responsible for any fees related to resumes that are unsolicited or are received without contract.

Zymeworks

Zymeworks is an Equal Opportunity Employer

Submitted: 06/25/2022