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Executive Assistant

Job in Palo Alto, Santa Clara County, California, 94306, USA
Listing for: Summit Corporation
Full Time position
Listed on 2026-03-01
Job specializations:
  • Administrative/Clerical
  • Healthcare
Salary/Wage Range or Industry Benchmark: 60000 - 80000 USD Yearly USD 60000.00 80000.00 YEAR
Job Description & How to Apply Below

Summit Therapeutics Inc. is a biopharmaceutical oncology company with a mission focused on improving quality of life, increasing potential duration of life, and resolving serious unmet medical needs. At Summit, we believe in building a team of world class professionals who are passionate about this mission, and it is our people who drive this mission to reality. Summit’s core values include integrity, passion for excellence, purposeful urgency, collaboration, and our commitment to people.

Our employees are truly the heart and soul of our culture, and they are invaluable in shaping our journey toward excellence.

Summit’s team is inspired to touch and help change lives through Summit’s clinical studies in the field of oncology. Summit has multiple global Phase 3 clinical studies, including:

Non-small Cell Lung Cancer (NSCLC)
  • HARMONi:
    Phase 3 clinical study which was intended to evaluate ivonescimab combined with chemotherapy compared to placebo plus chemotherapy in patients with EGFR-mutated, locally advanced or metastatic non-squamous NSCLC who were previously treated with a 3rd generation EGFR TKI.
  • HARMONi-3:
    Phase 3 clinical study which is intended to evaluate ivonescimab combined with chemotherapy compared to pembrolizumab combined with chemotherapy in patients with first-line metastatic NSCLC.
  • HARMONi-7:
    Phase 3 clinical study which is intended to evaluate ivonescimab monotherapy compared to pembrolizumab monotherapy in patients with first-line metastatic NSCLC.
  • HARMONi-GI3:
    Phase 3 clinical study intended to evaluate ivonescimab in combination with chemotherapy compared with bevacizumab plus chemotherapy.

Ivonescimab is an investigational therapy not presently approved by any regulatory authority other than China’s National Medical Products Administration (NMPA). Summit is headquartered in Miami, Florida, and has additional offices in California, New Jersey, the UK, and Ireland.

Overview of Role:

We are looking for a capable and dynamic Executive Assistant to provide full-service support to our R&D/Medical C-Suite Executives & their teams. Reporting to the Sr. Manager of Executive Administration, you will manage day-to-day administrative tasks and work closely with other team members to manage all internal and external activities for your team of executives. To be successful in this role, you must be extremely flexible and able to multitask across many different arenas, while maintaining a positive, proactive approach to all tasks at hand.

Role and Responsibilities:
  • Provide high level support to the Chief Regulatory, Quality, & PV Officer
    , and Chief Biometrics Officer and their teams, through meeting management, project management, and preparation of meeting materials:
    • Be the point person who oversees all activities across businesses functions
    • Easily navigate between time zones to coordinate schedules between several US states and international attendees
    • Manage content and flow of information to the executive teams at Summit
  • Strategically manage complex calendars & schedule appointments:
    • Organize in-person, virtual and hybrid meetings among Summit team members, key external stakeholders including regulatory agencies, physicians and scientific experts
    • Flag priorities and bring urgent documents to the attention of the right team members for review and facilitate timely execution
    • Partner with Summit team members and external staff to facilitate daily schedules
    • Coordinate tech set up and proactively ensure Executive is prepared ahead of meetings for seamless participation while ensuring all materials are at hand
  • Performing additional administrative tasks including coordinating domestic and international travel, expense reconciliation and planning offsite meetings, etc.:
    • Coordinate all domestic and international travel arrangements, flights, cars, hotel, visas etc. and be able to clearly communicate Itineraries with the Executive
    • Process travel and meeting expenses for reimbursement in a timely manner
    • Be on call when exec is traveling, proactively coordinating flights and ground transportation
    • Anticipate and communicate when changes arise while managing solutions and setting expectations in a timely manner
  • Proactiv…
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