Senior Director, Program Leadership

3 weeks ago

Waltham, Massachusetts, United States Deciphera Pharmaceuticals Full time
Job Description

Deciphera Pharmaceuticals is seeking a highly skilled Senior Director, Program Leadership to join our team. As a key member of our program leadership team, you will be responsible for leading cross-functional program teams to drive the strategy and operations of our late preclinical, clinical, and commercial assets.

Key Responsibilities:
  • Lead one or more cross-functional program teams to define program strategy, goals, decision points, investments, and areas of risk and associated mitigations and contingencies.
  • Cultivate healthy, effective, and highly functioning program teams, partnering closely with program managers to ensure operational excellence.
  • Develop and maintain a fully integrated project plan (Gantt), incorporating activities, responsibilities, and interdependencies.
  • Drive the development and execution of the strategic plan, appropriately balancing the need for speed with potential risks.
  • Ensure holistic and confident communication: ensure PT clearly understands expectations from leadership, ensure leadership clearly understands program status, timelines, milestones, risks, and mitigations.
  • Focus team efforts on most critical tasks; identify and resolve communication bottlenecks.
  • Lead data-driven decision-making processes to enable timely and objective development decisions.
  • Liaise with peers within the program management function to maintain consistent cross-project standards, ensure aligned strategies, and determine overlap of competing priorities.
  • Participate in Portfolio Strategy Steering Committee meetings as the key representative of the program team.
  • Mentor junior PLs and program managers.
Requirements:
  • A minimum of 10 years drug development experience in the biopharmaceutical industry, including a minimum of 5 years development program leadership experience.
  • Solid understanding of oncology drug development process (steps, functions, and their roles, key interdependencies).
  • Strategic, efficient, organized, and empathetic leader who can zoom both in and out.
  • Strong interpersonal skills, with a proven track record of influencing without authority across a matrixed organization.
  • Outstanding written and oral communicator, able to clearly and accurately express complex ideas.
  • Builds consensus, but identifies a final decision maker/escalates when required.
  • Highly effective influencer without authority at all levels.
  • Performs well in a fast-paced, rapidly evolving environment.
  • Always planning and thinking two steps ahead, but able to flex in response to changing variables.
  • Highly motivated with a hands-on leadership style - no task is too big or small

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