hr@acimmune.com

VP of Program and Portfolio Management Role
VP of Strategic Portfolio and Program Management Location
AC Immune SA, EPFL Innovation Park Building B, 1015 Lausanne Contact hr@acimmune.com
Activity rate
100%
Reporting Line
Chief Technical Operations Officer Overview
AC Immune is a clinical-stage Swiss Biotech Company focused on the development of innovative therapeutics and diagnostics for Alzheimer's and other neurodegenerative diseases. This role is a key component of our Portfolio and Program Management (PPM) team. Program Management is focused on ensuring successful achievement of Program objectives on-time and within approved budget in line with the company's governance and tools, and the Portfolio Management component provide a strategic pipeline view to ensure that the organization achieves value-driven goals. As a member of PPM, you are a critical strategic partner, enabling the Research, and Clinical stage Product teams and governance bodies to make excellent decision, navigate the future, enabling novel therapeutics to be brought to patients. The role requires interactions with leadership partners from across Research, Clinical, Development Sciences, Manufacturing, Regulatory and Finance teams. Key
- Provide mentorship and project management expertise to Research and Development program teams responsibilities on all aspects of product development

• Act as a strategic partner for key members of the Research and Development leadership teams
• For specific projects, act as the global project lead
• Provide guidance, from drug discovery through to preparation for clinical trials, enabling efficient and effective progression of the company's portfolio as agreed with the relevant decision-making structure
• Ensure clear development and translation of molecule strategy to coordinated execution plans across program sub-teams to ensure aligned execution of the asset strategy
• Keep teams on track to deliver short, mid and long-term activities to achieve team objectives and lead planning projections effectively to ensure timely and coherent outlook, business and meeting management expectations
• Provide portfolio wide perspectives on topics involving drug development risk, R&D effectiveness, efficiency and innovation
• Provide portfolio insights for leadership to guide near and long-term planning
• Ensure excellent portfolio management by placing individual decisions into the context of the broader pipeline
• Provide portfolio context and data-driven insights
• Observe pharma trends and competitive insights, bring findings from other industries, and implications of trends and patterns, lead and lag indicators

Qualifications

• 15+ years' experience combining science, strategy, business as part of a team that brings life-saving diagnostics, therapeutics and vaccines to patients
• Strong knowledge and understanding of global product development in the pharmaceutical industry
• Significant people leadership experience with cross-functional, global teams; experience facilitating multi-disciplinary commercial stakeholders is also desirable
• A minimum of a MS in scientific discipline, or MBA with relevant pharmaceutical industry experience
• Proficient public speaker, presentation delivery, and report writing in English