Senior Manager / Associate Director, Growth Operations

About Us

What if…you could join an organization thats building life science bioplatform companies that are transforming human health and sustainability?

Flagship Pioneering is a biotechnology company that invents and builds platform companies that change the world. We bring together the greatest scientific minds with entrepreneurial company builders and assemble the capital to allow them to take courageous leaps. Those big leaps in human health and sustainability exponentially accelerate scientific progress in areas ranging from cancer detection and treatment to nature-positive agriculture.   

 What sets Flagship apart is our ability to advance biotechnology by uniting life science innovation, company creation, and capital investment under one roof in a way that is largely without precedent. Our scientific founders, entrepreneurial leaders, and professional capital managers are each aligned around an institutionalized process that enables us to innovate and transform for the benefit of people and planet.   

Many of the companies Flagship has founded have addressed humanity’s most urgent challenges: vaccinating billions of people against COVID-19, curing intractable diseases, improving human health, preempting illness, and feeding the world by improving the resiliency and sustainability of agriculture.  

Flagship has been recognized twice on FORTUNE’s “Change the World” list, an annual ranking of companies that has made a positive social and environmental impact through activities that are part of their core business strategies, and has been twice named to Fast Company’s annual list of the World’s Most Innovative Companies. 

The Role

This is an outstanding career opportunity to provide operational support to our Growth Partner and Responsible Partner team and to work with our companies to scale up, develop their long-term value strategy, financing and business development.  This role is critical to supporting portfolio company growth.

In this role you will support various Growth Partners and Responsible Partners in developing high quality GrowthCo Value Roadmaps. You will also ensure their effective implementation to deliver on their value creation, recognition and realization goals.

Responsibilities

• Support Responsible Partners, and more specifically Growth Partners, in developing elements of the GrowthCos’ Value Roadmaps, including the platform, pipeline, partnership, financing and organizational strategies – with all relevant scenarios and quantification necessary to develop value creation/recognition/realizations paths.
• Support Responsible Partners, and more specifically Growth Partners, in the management of GrowthCos so that they deliver on their value ambitions.
  This responsibility will also require ensuring effective networking within Flagship ecosystem to leverage existing resources, incl Growth Function Leads (HR, Finance, Legal/IP, BD, Communication, Digital), Analytics team, Value Team, Finance, Cap Formation, BD, Pioneering Medicines and International teams, to support GrowthCos’ development and value goal achievements.
• Support Responsible Partners, and more specifically Growth Partners, in the management of GrowthCos’ accountabilities towards Flagship. That could entail supporting the development of communication materials, action plans, task forces…
• Develop Growth portfolio insights, based on advanced analytics, to GrowthCos and internal/external partners in order to optimize resource allocation, target setting and more generally the development of better Value Roadmaps. This may entail working closely with the finance team to develop better budget/LRP frameworks, the Cap Formation team to better plan for funding needs, the analytics team to develop operational metrics for benchmarking, the Value Team on value plans or valuation metrics, the BD team on deal benchmarkings, the PM team or external partners on clinical development needs, the manufacturing team on CMC needs….
• Collaborate with growth partners to design, implement, and maintain streamlined processes that are more nimble, faster paced, and better connected to GrowthCo needs across their respective organizations  
• Drive process and programs related to annual operating plans, clinical programs, financings and partnerships
• Define roles and responsibilities and drive efficiency by enhancing the cross-functional collaborations and productive intersection of the companies for advanced scalability
• Own and execute with high success and timely delivery strategic initiatives and pilots of high-value 

Experience and Qualifications

5-10+ years’ experience operating in fast moving, innovative, performance driven organization in healthcare, delivering on ambitious goals mobilizing teams through guidance and influence and interfacing closely with individuals in critical operational functions (BD/Strategy, Finance, HR/Talent, Legal, etc.)

• Either a background in the tech industry or fast paced life science realm.
• BA and optionally a MS/MA, MD, PhD, or equivalent time spent deep in technical/scientific topics (e.g, Engineering or Biology)
• 10+ years of entrepreneurial executive operational experience required within biotech or related industries, demonstrating your deep operational expertise, desire for speed and agility, and your ability to thrive in a fast-changing entrepreneurial, technical environment
• Experience in biotech financing process and methods or MBA or experience working in operations, strategy or business development
• Cross-functional management experience (i.e., business/corporate planning, resource planning, forecasting)
• Energy to build a positive and success-oriented team culture; lead by example to ensure collaboration, teamwork, open communication, constructive conflict resolution and organizational flexibility
• Exceptional clarity and communication and influencing skills, with an aptitude to inspire confidence in different audiences - including investors, academic partners, management teams, and company boards - driving the success and growth of our portfolio companies

Preferred Qualifications

• High-level financial literacy with the ability to generate and share insight on future financing plans relating to the evaluation of creative financing strategies, driving the growth and success of our portfolio companies
• Top-tier management consulting experience

At Flagship, we recognize there is no perfect candidate. If you have some of the experience listed above but not all, please apply anyway. Experience comes in many forms, skills are transferable, and passion goes a long way. We are dedicated to building diverse and inclusive teams and look forward to learning more about your unique background.

Recruitment & Staffing Agencies: Flagship Pioneering and its affiliated Flagship Lab companies (collectively, “FSP”) do not accept unsolicited resumes from any source other than candidates. The submission of unsolicited resumes by recruitment or staffing agencies to FSP or its employees is strictly prohibited unless contacted directly by Flagship Pioneering’s internal Talent Acquisition team. Any resume submitted by an agency in the absence of a signed agreement will automatically become the property of FSP, and FSP will not owe any referral or other fees with respect thereto.

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