Director, Project Management
Summit Therapeutics, Inc.
full-time
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Location Type: Office
Location: Princeton • New Jersey • 🇺🇸 United States
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💰 $184,000 - $230,000 per year
Job Level
Lead
About the role
- Drive the global manufacturing and technical operations strategy and deliverables, ensuring alignment with corporate objectives and long-term growth plans.
- Lead the development, integration, and ongoing management of the end-to-end launch plan for the companys oncology product.
- Establish launch governance structures, including workstreams, steering committees, and communication frameworks.
- Track progress against launch milestones, KPIs, and critical path activities; proactively identify risks, gaps, and mitigation strategies.
- Ensure alignment between clinical, regulatory, commercial, medical affairs, and supply chain functions throughout the launch cycle.
- Facilitate effective communication and collaboration among all launch workstreams and senior leaders.
- Report metrics and drive decision-making by preparing executive-level presentations, scenario analyses, and status updates.
- Partner with functional heads to ensure integration of commercial strategies, medical strategies, distribution planning, pricing and market access activities, and compliance considerations.
- Support organizational readiness by coordinating training, process development, and infrastructure build-out across functions.
- Work closely with Commercial leadership to align timelines and dependencies across brand strategy, field force planning, marketing, and market access activities.
- Ensure launch planning incorporates patient services, distribution models, safety requirements, and external stakeholder engagement.
- Support development of the comprehensive launch readiness dashboard and reporting tools.
- All other duties as assigned.
Requirements
- Bachelors degree in a scientific or business-related field; advanced degree (MBA, MS, PharmD) preferred.
- Minimum of 10+ years of project or program management experience in the pharmaceutical/biotechnology industry.
- Proven track record leading commercialization and launch activities, preferably in oncology or specialty therapeutics.
- Strong understanding of pre-commercial and launch-stage requirements, including commercial, medical, regulatory, supply chain, and market access functions.
- Demonstrated ability to drive complex, cross-functional programs in fast-paced, high-growth environments.
- Exceptional communication, leadership, facilitation, and consensus-building skills.
- Expertise in project management tools, frameworks, and methodologies.
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard skills
project managementcommercializationlaunch planningregulatory compliancemarket accesssupply chain managementoncologytherapeuticsKPI trackingrisk management
Soft skills
communicationleadershipfacilitationconsensus-buildingcollaborationorganizational readinessstrategic alignmentproblem-solvingstakeholder engagementdecision-making
Certifications
Bachelor's degreeMBAMSPharmD