Senior Director, Program Leadership

12 hours ago

Waltham, Massachusetts, United States Deciphera Pharmaceuticals Full time
Job Title: Senior Director, Program Leadership

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

Key Responsibilities:
  • Lead 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 fully integrated project plans, incorporating activities, responsibilities, and interdependencies.
  • Drive the development and execution of the strategic plan, balancing the need for speed with potential risks.
  • Ensure holistic and confident communication, ensuring program teams clearly understand expectations from leadership and 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 of drug development experience in the biopharmaceutical industry, including a minimum of 5 years of development program leadership experience.
  • Solid understanding of oncology drug development process, including steps, functions, and their roles, key interdependencies.
  • Strategic, efficient, organized, and empathetic leader who can zoom in and out, seeing the big picture as well as critical details.
  • 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.
  • Experience with MS Office suite (PowerPoint, Excel, MS Teams) required, project management tools (Smartsheet, ThinkCell, MS Project) a plus.
About Deciphera Pharmaceuticals:

We are a biopharmaceutical company focused on discovering, developing, and commercializing important new medicines to improve the lives of people with cancer. We leverage our proprietary switch-control kinase inhibitor platform and deep expertise in kinase biology to develop a broad portfolio of innovative medicines.

We are proud to be Great Place to Work Certified 2023 and rank #25 on Fortune's Best Places to Work Small and Midsized Biotech Companies in 2023. Find more details about our award-winning culture here.

We offer an outstanding culture and opportunity for personal and professional growth based on our PATHS Core Values:

  • Patients - We are committed to improving the lives of patients living with cancer. They are the driving force behind everything we do.
  • Accountability - We demand accountability for our actions, behaviors, and performance. We recognize our duty to maintain a culture that embraces the uniqueness of our people and finds strength in our differences.
  • Transparency - We strive to provide full visibility to internal and external stakeholders for a complete picture of what we are doing and why.
  • Honesty and Integrity - Trust and mutual respect are essential aspects of our culture. We act with honesty and integrity in all facets of our business, and this serves as the foundation of our work and interactions with others.
  • Stewardship - We are respectful of the resources entrusted to us by the investment community. We act thoughtfully and allocate resources responsibly in seeking to create value for our shareholders.

We are committed to equal employment opportunity and values diversity. To ensure that we comply with reporting requirements and to learn more about how we can increase diversity in our candidate pool, we invite you to voluntarily provide demographic information in a confidential survey at the end of this application. Providing this information is optional. It will not be accessible or used in the hiring process, and has no effect on your opportunity for employment. This information will also be treated confidentially.

We offer a comprehensive benefits package that includes but is not limited to the following:

  • Non-accrual paid time off
  • Summer vacation bonus
  • Global, company-wide summer and winter shutdowns
  • An annual lifestyle allowance
  • Monthly cell phone stipend
  • Internal rewards and recognition program
  • Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance
  • 401(k) retirement plan with company match
  • Life and Supplemental life insurance for family
  • Short and Long Term Disability insurance
  • ESPP offering
  • Health savings account with company contribution
  • Flexible spending account for either health care and/or dependent care.
  • Family planning benefit
  • Generous parental leave
  • [if applicable] Car allowance

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