Senior Program Manager, Plasmid DNA / Cell and Gene Therapies

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in California, +6 more states.

📋 Description

• Oversee highly intricate, multi-program portfolios for strategic accounts.

• Manage comprehensive delivery across multiple simultaneous projects with considerable revenue, risk, and inter-departmental dependencies.

• Ensure compliance with timelines, budgets, and key performance indicators (KPIs).

• Cultivate and influence senior-level client relationships and account strategies.

• Serve as a trusted advisor to client stakeholders, manage escalations, and shape program direction and long-term partnership outcomes.

• Facilitate enterprise-wide alignment and decision-making among cross-functional teams and leadership levels.

• Establish and uphold program governance frameworks.

• Monitor project metrics and predict capacity needs.

• Provide consistent updates to senior leadership on project status, risks, and opportunities.

• Convert master service agreements, statements of work, supply and quality agreements, amendments, and change orders into actionable operational requirements.

• Collaborate with Business Development, Legal, Contracts, and Finance to assess feasibility, manage scope changes, support negotiations, and safeguard Aldevron's commercial and contractual interests.

• Maintain overall program health and capacity strategy.

• Anticipate demand, identify risks, lead proposals and renewals, and drive account expansion and continuous improvement initiatives.

• Work in conjunction with Business Development, Legal, Contracts, Project Management, Manufacturing, Quality, Regulatory Affairs, Supply Chain, Technical Operations, Finance, and Executive Leadership.

⛳️ Requirements

• A Bachelor’s degree (B.S. or B.A.) is required.

• At least 7 years of experience in a client-facing role as a project, program, or account manager in the life sciences sector is preferred.

• Minimum of 5 years in a GMP-regulated CDMO setting is preferred.

• Proven experience managing programs and contracts in a regulated biotechnology, pharmaceutical, or medical device-related field is required.

• Familiarity with plasmid DNA manufacturing and its applications in cell and gene therapy, gene editing, mRNA, vaccines, or other genomic medicine is essential.

• Strong preference for experience with late phase/commercial drug products.

• Excellent analytical and problem-solving capabilities.

• Willingness to travel up to 25% of the time, including to the Fargo, ND site and client locations, with overnight travel as necessary based on business and customer requirements.

• An advanced degree in a scientific field is strongly preferred.

• An advanced degree in a scientific, engineering, legal, project management, or business discipline, or a project management certification such as PMP is a plus.

• Direct program leadership experience for commercial or late-phase plasmid DNA programs is a plus.

• Experience managing strategic accounts, cross-site programs, long-term supply agreements, capacity reservation models, demand planning, forecast commitments, pricing protections, change-order mechanisms, termination provisions, executive governance, or commercial supply continuity is a plus.

🏝️ Benefits

• Bonus/incentive compensation.

• Paid time off.

• Medical insurance.

• Dental insurance.

• Vision insurance.

• 401(k) plan.

• Remote work arrangement from home.

• Flexible remote working arrangements for eligible positions.

• Reasonable accommodations for applicants and employees with disabilities.