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Manager/Associate Director - Project Management

relationrx· Growth
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LondonFull-timePosted 2mo ago

About the role

Experienced Project Manager to lead and coordinate the osteoporosis discovery programme across Target ID through Lead Optimisation, coordinating internal teams and external partners in a matrixed, discovery-stage biotech environment.

Responsibilities

  • Partner with Programme, Project Leaders and sponsors to understand the strategic objectives and delivery requirements across the programme.
  • Orchestrate the matrix team to deliver against project objectives, motivating all team members with clear direction and communication.
  • Work with functional leads to ensure appropriate resource allocation and to onboard supplementary resources where needed to support delivery.
  • Proactively manage plans, budgets, risks and issues across the programme, escalating to senior management when appropriate.
  • Support leadership in navigating high-impact, high-risk situations with clear analysis, high transparency and a spirit of partnership — even in the face of significant adversity or major obstacles.
  • Translate scientific and strategic objectives into integrated project plans, timelines and milestones.
  • Coordinate execution across the wet lab, ML research, data science and engineering teams, owning cross-team dependencies and prioritisation, and actively monitoring interdependencies across teams as the programme evolves.
  • Identify and manage risks across the programme, working with team leads to mitigate blockers before they affect delivery.
  • Coordinate joint governance bodies (steering committees, working groups, technical committees) — agendas, materials, minutes and follow-ups — and ensure decisions are documented and actioned.
  • Communicate status clearly to internal leadership and external partners, surfacing decisions and trade-offs as they arise.
  • Maintain project documentation, decision logs and operational hygiene to a standard that supports a multi-year, partnered effort.
  • Coordinate resource allocation and operational support across the computational and wet lab teams where required.
  • Identify and embed improvements to ways of working as the programme evolves.

Qualifications

  • A degree in life sciences, project management, or a related field; advanced degree or equivalent industry experience welcome.
  • Significant Programme/Project management experience in biotech, pharma, or comparable scientific R&D settings, ideally including early-stage discovery programmes (target ID through to candidate selection).
  • Comfort managing a programme where scope and workstreams may evolve as science matures from exploratory biology through to a defined lead series.
  • Scientific literacy sufficient to engage credibly with discussions spanning wet lab biology, single-cell omics, and machine learning, and grounding in discovery pipeline (target validation, hit-to-lead, lead optimisation).
  • Familiarity with stage-gate or portfolio governance frameworks as applied to early discovery programmes (go/no-go criteria, TPP evolution, milestone-based progression).
  • Experience overseeing third-party or outsourced work packages (e.g. CROs, academic collaborators, specialist service providers).
  • Fluency with modern project management methodologies and tools (MS Project, Smartsheet, Asana, Jira; Gantt, RAID logs).
  • Strong organisational skills with a track record of managing complex, interdependent teams in matrixed environments; comfort with R&D realities.
  • Excellent written and verbal communication, including ability to write clearly for senior external audiences.

Skills

Required:Programme/Project managementCross-functional team leadershipStakeholder management
Last updated Oct 21, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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Discovering biology’s relationships, curing disease.

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