Cro Manager - Paris, France - Aqemia

Aqemia

Entreprise vérifiée

Paris, France

il y a 3 semaines

Posté par:

Sophie Dupont

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Description

The difference you'll make:

As the CRO Manager, you will be at the forefront of Aqemia's drug discovery efforts, responsible for driving strategic partnerships and ensuring high-performance collaborations with CROs.

Your key responsibilities will include:

Day-to-day operations with CROs - (60% of the time)

Oversee our campaigns of screening
Check assay availabilities in our partnered CROs
For novel targets: provide scientific support on identifying the proper screening assay and settingup the work with the identified CRO
Manage and track compound purchases
Coordinate assays with CROs
Check consistency of experimental results
Ensure reception and communication of results
Support Drug Discovery Project Leaders in their needs
Compounds order (punctual vs on demand chemistry)
CRO benchmarking on specific assays
Identify and setup needed cell assays with the proper CRO
CRO prospection and relationships
Meet with current CROs monthly to address longterm questions
Challenge KPIs on chemistry and TAT on biological assays
Prospect potential CROs and benchmark them
Cost tracking and contracting
Manage invoicing with CROs
Keep track of projects CRO costs
Negotiate contracts and contract renewals

Scientific support in targets exploration and DD projects - (20% of the time)

Analyze novel targets from a biological perspective: therapeutic area, assays to be set up, and input on differentiation from the competition
Provide input in drug discovery projects data packages

Supporting other project as (non-exhaustive list):

Help in R&D funding,
Provide to tech team inputs for improvement from a biological perspective
Staying uptodate in a specific area / take part in conferences for target scouting

Who you are:

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PhD in relevant field (biology, biochemistry, pharmaceutical sciences):

2-4 years project management experience in drug discovery-related activities through a CRO, a biotech or a big pharma:
Handson experience in biochemistry assays or in vivo assays, with experience on pharmaceutical targets being a plus
Capable of interpreting biology related experiments and results: Kd and IC50 determination, cellbased assays, ADME assays, PK, PK/PD and efficacy studies (the more the better)
Outsourcing management experience, negotiation skills are a plus
Ability to understand and challenge chemistryrelated KPIs is a plus
Ability to work with online datarelated tools is a plus
Team player comfortable working with peers from different backgrounds and able to explain efficiently the stakes behind experimental results

About us

We work for a mission:
joining us means having your own impact on changing the way drugs are discovered, and helping to shape the direction of our fast-growing company and team.

Our approach is completely unique in the industry, using AI & deep physics to discover new drugs
We are a team of +50 people from worldclass institutions (AstraZeneca, GSK, Sanofi, Harvard, Ecole Normale Supérieure, Ecole Polytechnique, BCG...) and nationalities (working language is English).
Our founders boast : 10+ years of research experience at the Ecole Normale Supérieure in Paris, not to mention a stint at Oxford and Cambridge / 10+ years of strategy consulting experience at BCG.
We have recently signed a $140m contract with Sanofi to accelerate their drug discovery.
2 Series A fundraising of up to 60M€.

What can we offer