Associate Director, Program & Alliance Management

Associate Director, Program & Alliance Management

Company Description

Zymeworks is a global biotechnology company managing a portfolio of licensed healthcare assets and developing a diverse pipeline of novel, multifunctional biotherapeutics to improve the standard of care for difficult‑to‑treat diseases, including cancer, inflammation, and autoimmune disease. The Company’s asset and royalty aggregation strategy focuses on optimizing positive future cash flows from an emerging portfolio of licensed products such as Ziihera® (zanidatamab‑hrii) and other licensed products and product candidates such as pasritamig.

In addition, Zymeworks is also building a portfolio of healthcare assets that can generate strong cash flows, while supporting the early‑stage development of innovative medicines. We are a global company headquartered in Vancouver BC, with operations in Bellevue WA, Dublin IRE, and Singapore.

Why Work With Us

Nothing is more critical to our success than the quality of our team. The work we do is meaningful and impactful - we care about each other as well as the patients we serve. We offer challenging career opportunities, competitive benefits and an environment that recognizes and rewards performance.

This role can be located in Bellevue WA or Vancouver BC and is hybrid with a minimum of 3 days per week onsite.

What You'll Do

• Ensure program teams and operational activities remain aligned with overall corporate strategy, project timeline, and resource plans.
• Provide input into development of management processes, critical path issues/solutions, resource and project management.
• Foster strong relationships with team members and various department leads, supporting project‑related communications and issue identification and management.
• Maintain program timelines, budgets, and tracking mechanisms, for both internal and external activities.
• Track, monitor, and communicate contractual obligations, deliverables and milestones.
• Proactively identify issues and lead the resolution of conflicts while working collaboratively; where required elevate matters to appropriate leadership; ensure internal alignment prior to joint decisions.
• Work collaboratively with CMC/Clinical/Research departments to execute against development plans.
• Collaborate closely with CMC team members, to execute the external manufacturing strategies.
• Track timelines and activities for development projects in order to achieve key deliverables and progress toward milestones and regulatory filings in alignment with company goals.
• Works closely and effectively with cross‑functional development team members, consultants and vendors.
• Develop, manage, and maintain both high level and detailed timelines of the development plan and ensures that the functional resources and forecasts are aligned with project and program timelines.
• Analyze and manage the critical path, evaluate potential means to accelerate the pace or mitigate identified risks, and plan contingencies with input from various functions
• Ensures regular and proactive communication amongst team members by monitoring, tracking and reporting project status to key stakeholders, including senior management.
• Assess and mitigate project risks and creates contingency plans in collaboration with project teams.

What You'll Bring

• Bachelor’s in biomedical sciences or other discipline related to life sciences and/or drug discovery.
• A minimum of ten (10) years’ related experience in the pharmaceutical/biotech industry with relevant experience.
• Direct experience working in a biopharmaceutical technical operations discipline with a working knowledge of biologics drug development.
• Ability to work as part of a high performing team and collaborate effectively with staff.
• Must have well‑developed interpersonal skills with the ability to establish highly functional relationships with diverse personalities both within and outside the company.
• Able to develop solutions to complex problems by employing ingenuity, creativity and innovation.
• Domestic and international travel (~10%) as needed.
• Experience working with and managing cross‑functional teams.
• Excellent collaboration, communication and relationship management skills.

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