The Business Manager supports the Clinical Operations Leadership Team within the gRED ECD organization and serves as a strategic thought partner to help drive functional short-term and long-term business planning, strategy development and execution. This role reports into the Chief of Staff.

Job Responsibilities:

• Embraces an enterprise mindset and is able to articulately connect functional activities to the broader organizational context.

• Adeptly balances providing space for innovation while creating appropriate boundaries in order to achieve objectives.

• Navigates the diversity of views and styles in a way that enhances the effectiveness of the team as a whole in delivering on goals.

• Maintains a strong focus on people development and engagement. Facilitates planning and execution of activities that delivers on staff development and enhances engagement

• Serves as a thought partner for vision and goal setting and partner with teams to drive functional short-to-long-term business planning, strategy development, and execution

• Keeps LT meetings on track with focused agendas and objectives. Takes minutes and tracks deliverables as appropriate

• Supports business planning, such as budget review, resource forecasting, goals review, etc

• Supports staff focused functional activities such as offsite planning, recognition events.

• Challenges LT in a way that enhances team perspective and impact

• Anticipates needs of leadership team and prompts actions and conversations that enhances team success

• Balances needs of function and needs of overall organization

• Problem solves by leveraging understanding of business and functional relationships to activate right people and solutions

• Spends time connecting individuals and teams within function, across functions and across organizations

• Understands and advises on functional priorities within the context of enabling larger organizational success

• Advises on new approaches to address organizational needs and complex challenges within ECD and broader organization

Who Are You:

• Excellent written and oral communication skills, including strong presentation skills

• Strong project management and very organized

• Adept at fostering positive, transparent and productive relationships

• Adapts quickly to rapidly changing business demands

• Takes initiative to solve a wide range of difficult problems in creative ways

• Proven ability to challenge current business standards and processes, with the ability to propose solutions

• Proficient with skills in one or more of the following core business management areas:

  • Strategic planning

  • Business process management and improvement

  • Project management

  • Team facilitation

  • Communication and event planning

• Experience in managing organizational cross-functional initiatives and/or business operations programs

• Ability to develop and execute on change management and communication strategies

• Experience in clinical development preferred

• Broad organizational and business knowledge

• Persons without formal degree who have comparable depth and breadth of training and experience and who meet job-specific criteria are eligible for consideration

• Business or project management coursework or additional supportive training desired (e.g. PMP, Six Sigma, Lean, Design Thinking, Agile methodology, etc.)

Education and Experience

• Senior Business Manager: Bachelor’s degree or equivalent curriculum (life science, learning science or other relevant healthcare discipline is preferred, advanced degree such as, MBA preferred). Minimum of 8+ years in the pharmaceutical industry, responsibilities within a drug development organization with emphasis in Project Management is preferred. Persons without formal degree who have comparable depth and breadth of training and experience and who meet job-specific criteria are eligible for consideration

• Principal Business Manager: Bachelor’s degree required (life science, learning science or other relevant healthcare discipline is preferred). Minimum of 10+ in the pharmaceutical industry with a Bachelor’s degree; 8+ Years with Masters degree/MBA

Compensation Range:

Senior Business Manager: The expected salary range for this position based on the primary location of California is $113,500 and $210,700 of hiring range.

Principal Business Manager: The expected salary range for this position based on the primary location of California is $144,000 and $267,400 of hiring range.

Actual pay will be determined based on experience, qualifications, geographic location, and other job-related factors permitted by law. A discretionary annual bonus may be available based on individual and Company performance. This position also qualifies for the benefits detailed at the link provided below.

Benefits

Relocation benefits are NOT available for this job posting.

This position is located in South San Francisco, CA and will require on campus presence 50-60% of the time.

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