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Programme Manager
The Company
BenevolentAI unites technology with human intelligence to re-engineer drug discovery and deliver life-changing medicines. We have developed the Benevolent Platform®, a drug discovery platform built on powerful data foundations with state of the art machine learning and AI technology. Our technology empowers scientists to decipher the vast and complex code underlying human biology, find new ways to treat disease and personalise medicines to patients. Benevolent has active in-house R&D drug programmes in disease areas such as neurodegeneration, immunology, oncology and inflammation and has research and commercial collaborations with leading pharmaceutical and research organisations. The company is headquartered in London with a research facility in Cambridge (UK) and a further office in New York.
Who we are
We are an eclectic bunch at Benevolent, united by our belief that innovative thinking and purposeful technology can truly change outcomes for the better. Our mission is to re-engineer drug discovery and deliver life-changing medicines for patients in need and we do this by applying AI, machine learning and other advanced technologies to reinvent the ways drugs are discovered and developed. We strive to bring together unique skills and perspectives across biology, chemistry, engineering, AI research, informatics, precision medicine and drug discovery.
The Role
As a Programme Manager, reporting to the Director of Portfolio Management you will be responsible for managing drug discovery programmes from the deployment of our technology to identify novel drug targets in various disease areas through to clinical development.
In each programme, you will work closely with a leadership team representing the key functions; and you will coordinate the activities of an extended cross-functional group of highly skilled individual contributors, collaborators and CROs to drive execution to ensure the successful delivery of our portfolio which is at the core of our business.
This position can be based at either our Cambridge or London office, so the successful Candidate will work within multi-disciplinary teams based at either our Laboratory facilities on the Babraham Research Campus in Cambridge (UK) or from our headquarters in London.
Primary Responsibilities
- Create a well structured plan with timelines and budgets, while working with partners across geographies and functions to determine resource needs.
- Challenge assumptions for time, costs and risk in order to optimise project delivery.
- Manage and expose risks and dependencies to identify sources of limitation and constraint. Access priorities and create mitigation plans.
- Leverage a broader network to ensure continued engagement from stakeholders.
- Collate qualitative and quantitative information on project performance and produce project reports for internal management and decision making.
- Manage the team towards effective governance decisions.
- Coordinate with other areas of the business such as product management, design and development.
Additional Responsibilities
- Champion best-practices in project management and embed better ways of working across the organisation
- Facilitate outsourcing discussions, including the negotiation and approval of contracts
We are looking for someone with
- Significant experience leading complex projects in either pharmaceutical/biotech/life sciences, or tech (ideally AI or machine learning) environments
- Ability to manage a multiple disciplinary matrix team and delivering projects across geographies
- Proven experience in collaborating with development teams to accomplish defined goals in a timely manner
- Excellent organisation skills. Ability to multitask and work independently to demanding, changing schedules and priorities
- Effective communicator with decisive yet collaborative leadership style and ability to build and maintain collaborative relationships across organisational boundaries
- A sharp focus on delivery with the ability to scale activities and frameworks to suit project needs
- Experience delivering using Agile/Scrum or waterfall methodologies and excellent working knowledge of project management tools
- Can-do attitude, proactive and collaborative approach to problem solving and issue resolution
- A professional project management qualification e.g. PMP, PRINCE2, AgilePM is not essential but a bonus
Together, we envision a world in which no disease goes untreated. If you are benevolent, curious, want to tackle real world problems and are willing to embrace new ideas, hit that ‘apply’ button and join us.
Important Note
It has come to our attention that unfortunately fraudsters have been falsely offering jobs and set-up fake interviews under the guise of being a Benevolent recruiter. We therefore advise you to be very stringent about who is reaching out to you. Any enquiry from our team will only be made via the email careers@benevolent.ai or an email from this domain @benevolent.ai. Please flag any suspicious contact request to hello@benevolent.ai
