Translator

• Understands, synthesizes, and aligns biomarker and translational needs across Discovery and Development portfolios, including anticipated timing, in partnership with the Translational biomarker leads and cross-functional stakeholders
• Works with Translational, Biomarker, and cross-functional partners within a matrixed environment to ensure strategy is supported by executable plans, appropriate timelines, and realistic assumptions
• Maintains accurate portfolio data in enterprise databases
• Summarizes portfolio metrics, issues and documents/presentations for senior management/governance committees to inform decision-making, with a focus on strategy and execution of Translational work
• Provides our company's organizational and process expertise to teams to enable navigation of discovery, development, and corporate governance and business requirements
• Collaborates effectively with functional areas, support functions, and alliance partner functions (if applicable) to facilitate project/portfolio delivery
• Manages strategic, cross-functional or cross-divisional management, governance, or alliance committees
• Prepares for, facilitates, and documents outcomes of leadership team meetings, ensuring meetings have clear purpose and objectives and that conflict is surfaced and resolved
• Proactively identifies and helps address opportunities for process improvement in translational biomarker workflows, tools, and systems
• Provides mentoring, coaching, and oversight to Specialist/Senior Specialist project/Portfolio Managers working on common projects
• Actively participates and completes ongoing training and personal development activities to increase leadership competency and to gain knowledge and skill in the discipline of project/portfolio management and the business and science of pharmaceutical product discovery and development and associated translational activities
• Partners with Finance to ensure resource/budget planning and management

Associate Director, Discovery and Translational Portfolio Management

• Contribute to and drive execution of translational strategies across neurology programs
• Design and implement multi-modal biomarker approaches
• Help define data-driven decision frameworks in collaboration with translational and clinical leadership
• Lead translational components of programs from study design through data analysis and interpretation
• Partner with Clinical, Clinical Pharmacology, and Biostatistics teams to support trial design, dose strategy, and endpoint selection
• Contribute to development and implementation of biomarker strategies supporting clinical trials
• Serve as a key translational representative on cross-functional program teams
• Engage with academic and industry experts to stay at the forefront of emerging science in neurodegenerative diseases

Director, Translational Science – Neurology

• Contribute to the development and execution of translational and biomarker strategies for neurology programs
• Support implementation of multi-modal biomarker approaches (e.g., biofluid, imaging, digital biomarkers)
• Translate scientific hypotheses into practical biomarker applications within studies
• Participate as a core translational science representative on cross-functional program teams
• Support integration of biomarkers into clinical study design, conduct, and analysis
• Analyze and interpret biomarker and clinical data to support program understanding and decision-making
• Work with internal teams and external collaborators to implement fit-for-purpose biomarker assays
• Collaborate with CROs and academic partners to support biomarker sample analysis and data generation
• Help ensure data quality, assay performance, and alignment with study objectives
• Contribute to protocols, regulatory documents, reports, and scientific publications
• Present data and insights internally and, as appropriate, externally
• Stay current with advances in neurodegenerative disease biology and biomarker technologies
• Contribute to the evaluation of emerging approaches (e.g., omics, digital biomarkers)
• Build expertise in disease-relevant biology and translational methodologies

Associate Director, Translational Science – Neurology

• Leading portfolio management activities for early-stage R&D programs (discovery through IND/Ph1) including owning the integrated view of the TA portfolio (timing, key milestones, risks, and dependencies), in partnership with the TA Lead and Discovery Core Team Leads
• Translating portfolio strategy into actionable plans, including synthesizing, and articulating portfolio strategy and translating it into execution
• Preparing regular reports and presentations for senior management/governance committees/leadership committees, with a focus on developing clear, data-driven insights and narratives to enable decision-making.
• Capturing and communicating various metrics on the portfolio, including resources, project distribution across sites, phases of development, etc. and translating these into actionable portfolio insights
• Providing our Company's organizational and process expertise to teams to enable navigation of discovery, development, and corporate governance and business requirements.
• Collaborating effectively with functional areas, support functions, and alliance partner functions (if applicable) to facilitate project/portfolio delivery.
• Managing or administrating strategic, cross-functional or cross-divisional management, governance, or alliance committees
• Proactively surfacing key risks, trade-offs, and opportunities across the portfolio, and driving alignment across stakeholders in support of decision-making
• Providing mentoring, coaching, and oversight to Specialist/Senior Specialist project/Portfolio Managers working on common projects
• Actively participating and completing ongoing training and personal development activities to increase leadership competency and to gain knowledge and skill in the discipline of project management and the business and science of pharmaceutical product discovery and development.
• Partnering with Finance to ensure resource/budget planning and management.
• Collaborating with IT and PMO colleagues to maintain portfolio tools, dashboards, and reporting systems.
• Identifying and implementing best practices in portfolio management and governance, to drive process improvements and operational efficiencies, including contributing to the continuous evolution of portfolio and governance processes within GPAM.

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