What are the responsibilities and job description for the Manager, Project & Alliance Leadership position at Resilience Texas LLC?
Location: Houston, TX
Department: Project and Alliance Leadership
Reports to: Director, Project & Alliance Leadership
About CTMC
CTMC is a pioneering biotech joint venture, formed by National Resilience and MD Anderson Cancer Center, located in the heart of the Texas Medical Center. Our mission is to accelerate cell therapies from bench to bedside. We offer a wide range of cell therapy modalities, including CAR-T, TIL, and TCR-T. Our expert team collaborates closely with MD Anderson’s research and clinical faculty, bringing impactful cell therapies to cancer patients.
Since inception in May 2022, our team has filed eight INDs and have received approval, without delay, demonstrating our commitment to delivering innovative treatments to patients with speed and precision. Our alliance with National Resilience enables us to remain at the forefront of biomanufacturing practices, leveraging advanced technology and processes to deliver exceptional results.
Our growing, state-of-the-art, 60,000 sq. ft. industrial facility in the Texas Medical Center is staffed by an integrated team of industry veterans and academic scientists who are passionate about bringing life-saving cures to patients. Our unique joint venture structure, with two highly established partners, provides us with the financial stability and long-term horizon to achieve our organizational goals.
At CTMC, we value our employees and offer a variety of development opportunities within our novel corporate structure to inspire professional growth and satisfaction. We foster a team-first culture and a balanced work-life environment to ensure our staff is energized and engaged in our mission to accelerate cell therapies from bench to bedside for patients who need them. If you share our passion for advancing the frontiers of medical science with innovative therapeutics and want to join a highly dedicated team committed to delivering novel cures to patients, we invite you to submit your application. We look forward to hearing from you and exploring how your skills and expertise can help us achieve our mission.
Responsibilities
CTMC is looking for a highly motivated Project Manager, with exceptional operational, drug development, project management and communication skills to support the Project and Alliance Leadership team in Houston, TX.
Project & Alliance Leadership (PAL) plays an important role in defining and delivering value to partners within the CTMC mission. PAL serves as a centralized leadership and coordination function that aims to integrate CTMC’s deep cell therapy scientific expertise with an industrial GMP cell therapy manufacturing capability. This position will be responsible for managing the execution of cell therapy projects with a special focus on those assets already in early and/or late phase of clinical development. This role will help bring leadership, organization, and standardization to our portfolio of projects in active GMP operations. This role requires a unique team member that thrives in cross-functional and external working environments and has the aptitude to create out-sized value/impact in terms of enhancing operational excellence, program strategy, and overall portfolio execution. This role will report to the Director, Project and Alliance Leadership.
Responsibilities:
- Manage several projects with ongoing GMP operations, ensuring the needs of each program are met through active project management and project governance
- Support development of project schedules, plans, budgets, and work orders. Lead the tracking of scope, schedule and budget to ensure executional success
- Clearly and effectively communicate project progress and provide visibility to cross-functional stakeholders, senior leadership, and external partners
- Proactively identify project issues, potential risks and delays, and provide strategies for risk mitigation. Leverage portfolio governance structure to engage appropriate stakeholders
- Manage and/or support key internal and external working groups including internal project teams, internal leadership teams, joint project teams, joint leadership teams, joint steering committees, etc.
- Develop and track operational metrics that provide business intelligence as it pertains to program execution and broader portfolio management
- Develop and implement standardized project management tools across the GMP operational portfolio
- Provide stewardship of the batch lifecycle for projects within responsibility from forecasting, scouting, scheduling, operational execution, through close-out
- Lead day-to-day execution with internal and external stakeholders (e.g. MD Anderson Cancer Center and biotech partners) with a focus on enabling operations through enhanced forecasting, scouting, and scheduling
- Lead cross-functional and external alignment in order to resolve operational requests, changes, and issues
- Support reconciliation of actual GMP production with internal accruals and external partner invoicing to ensure value realization of our GMP operations
- Other duties as required.
Qualifications/Skills:
- BS or MS degree in engineering, science, or related field required, PhD preferred
- 9 years of relevant work experience including 3 years of functional or cross-functional leadership in cell therapy product development, GMP manufacturing operations, etc.
- Experience with early to late phase human therapeutic (drug) development, commercial preferred
- Experience with project management tools and methodologies
- Experience with fast-paced, collaborate, cross-functional teams and matrix organizations
- Aptitude for learning agility (e.g. able to develop new knowledge, skills, and abilities quickly)
- Aptitude for exceptional communication (e.g. able to effectively communicate with the scientists and technicians as well as the C-Suite)
- Aptitude for generalist skill-set (e.g. able to draw insights from disparate sections of the organization and synthesize value)
- Proficient in Microsoft Outlook, Teams, Project, Excel, SharePoint, and PowerPoint
Working Conditions, Equipment, Physical Demands
The incumbent in this position works in an office environment. The incumbent in this position will use the following equipment and shall have the following physical demands:
Equipment- Computer, printer, fax, and telephone.
Physical Demands- Prolonged periods of sitting at a desk and working on a computer and must be able to lift up to 15 pounds at times.
The physical demands and work environment that have been described are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this position. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions in accordance with the Americans with Disabilities Act.
The above job description is an overview of the functions and requirements for this position. This document is not intended to be an exhaustive list encompassing every duty and requirement of this position; your supervisor may assign other duties as considered necessary.