Vice President, Program Team Lead

Summary

Join Neumora, a biopharmaceutical company revolutionizing brain disease treatment, as a Vice President, Program Team Lead. You will strategically manage neuropsychiatric or neurodegenerative development programs, leading cross-functional teams to achieve program goals. This highly visible role significantly contributes to the company's success. Responsibilities include program strategy development, team leadership, cross-functional alignment, and stakeholder communication. The ideal candidate possesses extensive experience in the life sciences industry, strong leadership skills, and a deep understanding of drug development. Neumora offers a competitive salary and benefits package, including comprehensive health insurance, retirement plan, paid time off, and various leave options.

Requirements

• Outstanding proven team leadership skills and experience in a complex matrix environment
• Masters or Doctoral degree with a scientific focus
• 12+ years in the life-sciences, biotech and pharmaceutical industry; neurological disorder experience preferred
• At least 5 years equivalent multi-/ cross-functional leadership experience
• Experience with clinical program leadership required
• Excellent relationship building skills and ability to influence to achieve desired outcome
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills for bridging between scientific and business participants, for negotiating timelines and for effective collaboration
• Broad and deep understanding of the drug development process and associated operational experience
• Advanced level of basic science
• Advanced knowledge of regulatory and business requirements
• Understands basic financial aspects, including knowledge of resource planning (headcount and budget) and management
• Ability to critically and objectively interpret and evaluate scientific and competitive business-related information
• Expert planning and tracking skills, able to see big picture, well-organized, focused on results, capable of managing multiple projects, excellent time management with respect to priorities and self-management
• Advanced Program Management skills

Responsibilities

• Leads the program core team, responsible for creating and developing the program strategy and operational plan including realistic timelines, budget and resource planning, risk assessment and contingency planning
• Accountable for the quality of the team’s output, consistently drives to generate the highest quality and highest integrity data that enables clear decision-making at the company level
• Drives decision-making and issues resolution within the team and through the governance process
• Ensures cross-functional alignment and organizational support for the execution of the operational plan by facilitating internal and external stakeholder meetings
• Drives the team to out-of-box thinking and creative issue resolution
• Challenges assumptions, timelines and expenses at program level, pressure tests plan, creates alternative scenarios to enable strategic and operational agility
• Manages prioritization of program team activities to enhance program value
• Acts as spokesperson for the program and represents program internally and externally
• In partnership with the team Project Manager, responsible for comprehensiveness and quality of program information in the internal systems and databases. Responsible for communication to Senior Management
• Expected to identify bottlenecks, surface issues, and proactively drive for their resolution, and to lead contingency planning efforts
• Leads ad-hoc cross-functional task forces, as needed, aiming at issue resolution or organizational efficiency
• Manages project variance and root cause analysis, develops risk mitigation/ issue management plans with the objective to meet the financial targets

Preferred Qualifications

• Neurological disorder experience
• Experience leading a team through a regulatory filing
• Small molecule expertise

Benefits

• Medical, dental, vision, and life insurance
• 401(k) plan: Neumora matches 50% of an employee’s eligible contribution, up to the first 6% of salary (up to 3% employer contribution)
• Company Equity (New Hire Awards, Annual Awards, ESPP)
• Accrued Vacation Days: 15 days per year
• Sick Days: 10 days per year
• Company Holidays: 13 days plus summer recharge week in July and winter shutdown in December
• Paid Medical Leave
• Paid New Parent Bonding Leave
• Paid Family Leave
• Paid short-term and long-term disability
• Discretionary year-end bonus