Revolution Medicines is seeking to develop novel targeted therapies for RAS-addicted cancers. This role will serve as a strategic and scientific liaison to manage internal and external collaborations, streamline research activities, and ensure efficient decision-making to support the company's growing pipeline.
Requirements
- PhD scientist with 12+ years of related experience including strong operational talents, solid judgement, strong communication skills, and the ability to balance multiple complex projects.
- 10+ years' experience in the biotech/pharmaceutical industry.
- Experience with Oncology drug discovery, including familiarity with key activities that follow progression of drug candidates from Research to Clinical Development and Commercialization.
- Able to pivot flexibly from strategy to operations and explain interconnections to collaborators with a wide variety of backgrounds and disciplines, including senior management and external stakeholders.
- Clear and concise communication style, in particular for scientific subject matter, with an ability to synthesize facts and insights into business-relevant, actionable recommendations.
- Ability to apply rigorous logic, creativity and ingenuity to develop solutions to complex problems.
- Experience in academic collaborator management, portfolio management, portfolio planning or similar function(s) is preferred.
Responsibilities
- Lead efforts to develop and define a robust strategy for review, prioritization and implementation of Research activities to support the business needs of various internal partners including R&D Leadership, Medical Affairs, Commercial and Investor Relations groups.
- Serve as a single point of contact accountable for the sourcing, collation and review of scientific materials to support training and public disclosures at scientific conferences and meetings.
- Leverage strong cross-functional skills to coordinate and facilitate collaborations with key stakeholders across the organization, including R&D, Medical Affairs, Commercial, Project Management, and Legal to enable aforementioned activities.
- Partner with Research Leadership to develop and implement an efficient and sustainable approach to RVMD’s collaborations with external academic partners.
- Prioritization of preclinical research proposals and RVMD review and approval of scientific materials intended for public disclosure at scientific conferences and meetings.
- Streamline communication and decision-making processes to optimize management of both internal and external relationships for members of Biology leadership team within the context of the above activities.
- Identify current and future needs and evolve capabilities of scientific liaison function to adapt to rapidly increasing scale and complexity of our RAS(ON) portfolio and the broader organization.
Other
- Practicing scientists who want to transition to enabling scientific operations, strategy and management will be considered.
- Strong interpersonal skills, including the ability to make decisions and influence others, and build and maintain positive work relationships with all levels in a dynamic and fast-paced organization.
- Keen attention to detail.
- LI-Hybrid
- LI-LN1
