Chief Executive Officer

## Chief Executive Officer Apply locations:
Cambridge, MAtime type:
Full time posted on:
Posted Yesterday job requisition :
B021565*“We are focused on results. Those that can be measured. And those measured in ways beyond numbers. We see individuals, not issues. We are inspired by passion, and compassion for the wellbeing of people. Our methods are based on logic, driven by rigor, results, issues, and outcomes. Our innovation means trying new things, learning from our mistakes, and consistently refining our approach.

Our strategies help us define our path to success, but our effectiveness is based in the aggregate power of our initiatives to impact holistic change.”
* -Bill Gates The Gates Medical Research Institute (Gates MRI) is a non-profit biopharmaceutical development organization primarily dedicated to the development of impactful biopharmaceutical interventions for diseases that disproportionately affect the world’s poorest populations, diseases that combined cause five deaths every minute.  Headquartered in Cambridge MA, the Institute is designed to advance novel drug, biologics, and vaccine candidates through late-stage development and registration.  

The Institute encompasses experienced biopharmaceutical development professionals across regulatory, CMC, and clinical functions as well as comprehensive operational support functions.  The Institute’s programs are managed by its internal teams and functional areas in collaboration, working with partners across the global health ecosystem.

The Institute is based on five core “mantras” that are embedded within the organization and its people:
* ** Urgency:
** Execute with excellence to maximize impact.
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* Collaboration:

** Establish empowered teams to drive our bottom line: lives saved.
* ** Innovation:
** Build on the known, uncover the new, achieve the unprecedented.
* ** Rigor:
** Drive the science, focus on the details, and execute with the highest quality.
* ** Courage:
** Dare to confront the world’s most significant global health challenges.

Though the Institute is a diverse group of passionate change-makers, creative fixers, and relentless advocates, these five core values are universally adopted by all who join it with the personal goal of improving the health and wellness of the world’s most vulnerable populations.

As a wholly owned subsidiary and separate legal entity of the Gates Foundation, the Institute partners scientifically, operationally, and financially with the foundation to leverage the foundation’s ongoing support and contributions toward the achievement of global health equity.
** Final date to receive applications:
** Tuesday, June 9, 2026
** Your Role
** Reporting to the Board of Directors, the
** Chief Executive Officer (CEO)
** will lead Gates MRI through a pivotal evolution of its vision, setting a clear strategic direction and ensuring strong alignment with the Gates Foundation and key stakeholders around enterprise priorities.

The CEO will advance Gates MRI as a biopharmaceutical development organization focused on translational programs to late-stage development, strengthening its position as a preferred development partner across priority disease area and novel platforms with Program Strategy Teams. This includes building a flexible, high-quality, and cost-effective development organization that accelerates the translation of scientific innovation across key indications into impactful health solutions through a partnership model

The role requires a credible, outcomes-oriented leader who combines scientific rigor with enterprise leadership, strengthening the operating model, decision governance, and performance accountability required to deliver high-quality clinical development particularly in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) through a network of strategic partners.
** What You’ll Do
**** Strategic & Organizational Leadership
*** Define and execute the Institute’s long-term strategy as a development organization, aligned with Gates Foundation priorities
* Position Gates MRI as a preferred development partner to internal Program Strategy Teams and external stakeholders in key disease domain areas
* Develop and lead a…