This is a high-impact, hands-on role operating across preclinical discovery, strategy, and execution. You will work closely with the discovery scientific program leaders, internal matrix teams and external partners to ensure our programs progress efficiently from discovery to high-value assets.
You will have visibility across the full portfolio, enabling better decisions on what to prioritise, accelerate, or stop — and how to do so efficiently.
Key Responsibilities
Drive Portfolio Focus & Decision-Making
- Continuously help to prioritise programs across AOCs, drug delivery strategies, and platform innovations
- Help define what work is best performed internally vs externally
- Manage and coordinate CRO operational activities across the discovery portfolio in collaboration with discovery program leads and matrix teams
- Work with scientific preclinical project leaders to ensure externally generated data is:
- high quality
- timely
- aligned with program decision needs
- Prevent “black box” outsourcing by maintaining scientific and operational visibility
Embed Scientific Operations Across the Discovery Portfolio
- Establish lightweight systems for:
- portfolio tracking
- experiment-to-decision alignment
- cross-program visibility
- Facilitate discovery project teams in best practices around:
- planning experiments and storing data
- tracking project progress against agreed deliverables
- making effective data-driven decisions
- Ensure consistency in how data is generated, evaluated, and used across programs
Translate Platform into Pipeline
- Ensure platform capabilities (e.g. conjugation chemistry, targeting strategies, payload optimisation) are translated into repeatable, scalable programs
- Help define what is platform vs asset-specific work
Act as a Force Multiplier to Leadership
- Support Scientific and corporate leadership with portfolio reviews and strategic decisions
- Prepare materials for board and investor updates
- Bring structure to ambiguous problems and drive alignment across teams