{"id":812537,"url":"https://alion.io/job/locus-bio-rd-project-manager","title":"R&D Project Manager","company":{"id":681754,"name":"Locus Biosciences","domain":"locus-bio.com","url":"https://alion.io/company/locus-bio","size_band":"51-200","is_staffing_agency":false,"employer_type":"direct","is_intermediary":false,"listed_via":null,"ats_vendor":"Recruitee","truth_index":null},"role":"Management","role_family":"Management","seniority":"senior","employment_type":null,"work_mode":"on_site","remote_scope":null,"remote_scope_basis":null,"remote_working_hours":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"structured","locations":["Research Triangle Park, United States"],"countries":["US"],"hiring_countries":[],"hiring_countries_total":0,"salary":null,"salary_estimate":{"min_usd":96000,"max_usd":179000,"period":"year","method":"role_seniority_country_remote_cell","sample_n":4830},"experience_years_min":5,"visa_sponsorship":false,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":false,"technologies":[{"name":"GMP","optional":false},{"name":"Microsoft Project","optional":false}],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2025-01-11T20:53:07Z","employer_posted_date":"2025-01-11","last_verified_at":"2026-11-06T15:30:39Z","board_verified":true,"closed_at":null,"days_open":663,"trust":{"level":"stale","repost_count":0,"flags":["stale"],"days_open":663},"description":"Locus Biosciences is seeking a highly motivated and entrepreneurial applicant to join our team as a full-time R&D Project Manager responsible for developing, maintaining, and executing research plans across Locus Biosciences. The incumbent will be able organize and drive projects across Locus Biosciences to completion, including cross-departmental projects spanning the drug development pipeline. This role requires an ability to interact with technical staff, senior leadership, and strategic partners and effectively translate drug development activities across our teams. This person will be responsible for managing detailed project plans across multiple programs, including developing and updating Project Gantt charts, leading status update meetings, and ensuring good cross-team communication. This position is well suited for those that have demonstrated leadership, interpersonal, technical aptitude and problem-solving skills. Experience with agile projection management, as well as experience working in a start-up environment is preferred.\nWhy Locus?\nChange the future of medicine and address a serious and unmet patient need by developing completely novel therapeutic modalities.\n\nFasttrack your career by tackling large & meaningful projects\n\nWork with a team of exceptionally talented and hardworking individuals while striving to achieve a common mission\n\nPartner with the most highly respected pharmaceutical companies in the world\n\nBonus pool eligibility\n\nHealth, dental, vision, life insurance, 401(k) with company matching, and PTO\n\nFree access to fitness center and classes\n\nResponsibilities will include:\nLead development of the activities and timelines and ensure proper integration and alignment of managed projects across the company. Projects will include those within and across our R&D, GMP Manufacturing and Clinical Operations units.\n\nPerform project management functions for assigned projects and programs, ensuring project goals, timeframe, accountability and budget are achieved.\n\nPlan, coordinate, and administer activities of assigned projects to include developing and implementing procedures, processes, and systems; coordinating training employees to ensure project continuity and quality.\n\nProvide direction and oversight to cross-functional project teams, including internal and third-party vendors.\n\nPlan, lead, and facilitate regular cross-functional project team meetings.\n\nDevelop detailed task lists and work effort assessment and short and long-term resource allocation plans based on input from stakeholders and team members in alignment with company resourcing plans a program priorities.\n\nCreative problem-solving to resolve programmatic issues and mitigate risks, leveraging subject matter experts to resolve new challenges.\n\nCollaborate with functional representatives to anticipate and identify project risks and develop action and resolution plans. Communicate issues and risks, develop plans to remove or mitigate them, and escalate as warranted.\n\nAssist in the definition of project scope and objectives working closely with relevant project stakeholders. Manage project scope, including identifying and negotiating changes in scope with project stakeholders\n\nEstablish and maintain effective communication channels to provide accurate information to the leadership team.\n\nPrepare weekly status reports, internal team documents, and other project governance documents.\n\nAssist with the development and administration of project-specific budgets.\n\nRequirements\nCandidate must possess:\nA BS or MS degree in physical or life sciences or a related field; a PhD or MBA is preferred\n\n5 years of experience in project management, including cost control, vendor management, schedule development and adherence is preferred. Experience with Microsoft Project is a plus.\n\nMust be results driven and goal oriented with the ability to anticipate potential problems and resolve before cost and schedule are impacted.\n\nProven team leadership skills\n\nEntrepreneurial spirit\n\nPreferred qualifications:\nPrior management consulting experience, specifically within one of the Big 4 (Deloitte, PwC, EY, and KPMG) is strongly preferred,\n\nExperience with traditional and agile project management techniques, preferred.\n\nA self-starter with the ability to make sound decisions about scheduling, managing priorities and to work independently with minimal supervision.\n\nFlexible during times of change with the ability to navigate and resolve ambiguity.\n\nHands-on active management style while maintaining awareness of team activities.\n\nExcellent organizational, verbal, and written communication skills with the ability to effectively communicate technical overviews and strategic direction within cross-functional teams and to upper management.\n\nAbility to comprehend the company’s overarching strategic approach and program inter-dependencies.\n\nThrives in a fast-paced, entrepreneurial, and collaborative environment.\n\nOpenly shares knowledge/information needed to accomplish a tasks and solve problems.\n\nAbout Locus Biosciences\nLocus Biosciences is a clinical-stage biotechnology company developing precision antibacterial products to address critical unmet medical needs in treating bacterial infections and microbiome indications. The Locus platform engineers bacterial viruses called bacteriophages to specifically kill target pathogens while leaving non-target bacteria (i.e., the rest of the patient’s microbiome) unharmed and to deliver biotherapeutic payloads to the body sites where they are needed. Locus’s lead program is an engineered bacteriophage product targeting Escherichia coli bacteria in the urinary tract, currently being tested in an active Phase 2/3 clinical trial. Locus has collaborations with BARDA and CARB-X to develop engineered bacteriophage products targeting E. coli infections and Klebsiella pneumoniae infections, respectively. For more information about Locus visit https://www.locus-bio.com/\nSHIFT: Full-Time Days, with occasional evening and weekend work\nJob Type: Full-time, onsite\nJob Location: Research Triangle Park, North Carolina\nDirect applicants only. 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