Senior Manager, Vendor Management

The role

The Senior Manager will lead vendor oversight and internal coordination for a late-stage clinical program. This role serves as a central point of coordination across external vendors and internal functions to manage timelines, dependencies, and issues.

What you will do

• Lead day-to-day oversight and coordination of vendors supporting the late-stage program.
• Serve as a central coordination point across vendors and internal teams.
• Establish and maintain integrated program and vendor timelines.
• Coordinate cross-functional and vendor meetings.
• Support the alliance management function.
• Partner with Clinical Operations, Clinical Data Management, Biostatistics, Regulatory, Safety, Quality, Finance, and other relevant functions.
• Monitor vendor deliverables and service levels against agreed plans.
• Maintain visibility of key risks, issues, decisions, assumptions, and dependencies.
• Support governance forums and program reviews.
• Coordinate change control and scope updates with internal stakeholders and vendors.

Required qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in life sciences, business, project management, or a related field
• 8+ years of experience in clinical operations, clinical project management, vendor management, or alliance management within the biopharmaceutical or clinical research industry
• 3+ years of experience managing late-stage clinical studies, clinical vendors, or complex cross-functional workstreams
• Experience coordinating vendors and cross-functional teams supporting late-stage clinical studies or complex development programs
• Demonstrated ability to manage integrated timelines, deliverables, dependencies, risks, and issues across multiple workstreams
• Familiarity with clinical trial operations and the roles of common clinical service providers, such as CROs, central laboratories, imaging providers, and technology vendors
• Experience facilitating vendor governance meetings and maintaining productive relationships across organizational boundaries
• Strong organizational and communication skills
• Sound judgment in identifying emerging risks, coordinating solutions, and escalating issues
• Ability to influence without direct authority and to work effectively with stakeholders at different levels
• Comfort working in a dynamic environment with competing priorities and changing program needs

Nice to have

• advanced degree
• project management certification

Benefits

• annual bonus
• equity compensation
• competitive benefits package

About the company

Generate Biomedicines is a clinical-stage generative biology company pioneering the AI revolution in drug design and development. Founded in 2018, the company is advancing a growing pipeline of clinical and preclinical programs across multiple disease areas and protein modalities.