Manager/Associate Director - Project Management

The role

You will partner with Programme and Project Leaders to drive the osteoporosis programme through the discovery journey. You will coordinate matrix teams, manage plans, budgets, and risks, and oversee third-party partners.

What you will do

• Partner with Programme, Project Leaders and sponsors to understand strategic objectives
• Orchestrate the matrix team to deliver against project objectives
• Work with functional leads to ensure appropriate resource allocation
• Proactively manage plans, budgets, risks and issues across the programme
• Support leadership in navigating high-impact, high-risk situations
• Translate scientific and strategic objectives into integrated project plans, timelines and milestones
• Coordinate execution across wet lab, ML research, data science and engineering teams
• Identify and manage risks across the programme
• Coordinate joint governance bodies including steering committees and working groups
• Communicate status to internal leadership and external partners

Required qualifications

• A degree in life sciences, project management, or a related field
• Significant Programme/Project management experience in biotech, pharma, or comparable scientific R&D settings
• Experience in early-stage discovery programmes from target ID through to candidate selection
• Scientific literacy in wet lab biology, single-cell omics, and machine learning
• Grounding in the discovery pipeline including target validation, hit-to-lead, and lead optimisation
• Familiarity with stage-gate or portfolio governance frameworks
• Experience overseeing third-party or outsourced work packages
• Fluency with modern project management methodologies, artifacts and tools
• Strong organisational skills for managing complex, interdependent workstreams in matrixed environments
• Excellent written and verbal communication

Nice to have

• Advanced degree or equivalent industry experience
• Awareness of the discovery-to-IND pathway
• Exposure to pre-IND regulatory interactions or translational/preclinical handover

About the company

Relation is a TechBio company developing transformational medicines using single-cell multi-omics, functional assays, and machine learning. They operate with interdisciplinary teams in London to drive disease understanding from cause to cure.