Sr. Strategic Project Manager

What if… you could join an organization that creates, resources, and builds life sciences companies that invent breakthrough technologies to transform human health and sustainability?

Company Summary:
Quotient Therapeutics, Inc. is a privately held, early-stage company developing a novel genomics platform and therapeutics for diseases with a large unmet need.

Quotient Therapeutics, Inc. was founded by Flagship Pioneering, an innovative enterprise that conceives, creates, resources, and grows first-in-category life sciences companies. Flagship Pioneering has created over 100 groundbreaking companies over the past twenty years, all of which are pioneering novel and proprietary biological, industrial, and engineering approaches to solve major needs in human health and sustainability. These companies include Moderna (MRNA) Generate Biomedicines, Sana Biotechnology (SANA), Tessera Therapeutics, Evelo Biosciences (EVLO), Indigo Agriculture, Seres Therapeutics (MCRB), and Syros Pharmaceuticals (SYRS). To date, Flagship has deployed over $2.5 billion in capital toward the founding and growth of its pioneering companies alongside more than $19 billion of follow-on investments from other institutions. In 2021, Flagship Pioneering was ranked 12th globally on Fortune’s “Change the World” list, an annual ranking of companies that have made a positive social and environmental impact through activities that are part of their core business strategies.

Position Summary: 

Quotient Therapeutics is seeking a strategic-minded Senior Strategic Project Manager that will coordinate R&D activities across functions in a growing biotech company.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain a system to track, monitor, and report the status and timelines for key R&D projects
• Create, optimize, and maintain dashboards and other visual management approaches
• Ensure tight coordination of handoffs between a multiple teams of scientists and vendors
• Help scientists translate high-level scientific projects into concrete plans
• Anticipate execution and timeline risks, appropriately troubleshooting or escalating to leadership
• Proactively identify recurring risks and gaps; resource bottlenecks and work with teams to develop and implement mitigation plans
• Manage agenda and process for collating material for several key coordination, update, and governance meetings across the company

Requirements:

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in a life sciences field, PhD desirable but not required
• Minimum 3+ years’ experience in project management & coordination, preferably with past expertise working hands-on in a lab environment ‘at the bench’
• Highly collaborative team player who fosters open communication and facilitates mutual understanding and cooperation between all stakeholders, ideally with experience working in a matrix environment
• Demonstrated ability to effectively manage competing priorities
• Experience providing support to scientific teams in biotech setting
• Impact-oriented with excellent communication, organizational, and interpersonal skills
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office including Outlook, PowerPoint, SharePoint, and Project