Technical CRO Manager, London, Lausanne

Description

Isomorphic Labs is applying frontier AI to help unlock deeper scientific insights, faster breakthroughs, and life-changing medicines with an ambition to solve all disease. As part of the ongoing expansion of our Drug Design and Medical Research function, we are recruiting a CRO manager to work alongside our world leading AI/ML Drug Design Platform teams. You will directly contribute to our drug discovery projects by collaborating with internal stakeholders and being the primary point of contact for CRO relationships and deliverables. As a member of the Drug Discovery team you will be responsible for managing our CRO network, negotiating contracts, establishing working practices and optimising processes to speed up our Design-Make-Test-Analyse cycle.

Responsibilities

• Drive the creation and implementation of a CRO management system and create effective ways of working.
• Manage vendor relationships, monitoring efficiency and effectiveness of projects, and holding CROs accountable for deliverables.
• Be involved in selecting new CROs where appropriate, based on your knowledge of the market as well as the criteria that you will set out in partnership with drug discovery project team members.
• Work with Project Leads, Legal, Finance and Project Management to draw up new contracts, including working through the various administrative elements and vendor assessments.
• Assist in developing and implementing tools to simplify internal processes and improve user experience.

Skills and qualifications

Essential:

• BSc in Biology or a related technical field, or equivalent industrial experience.
• 5+ years industrial experience within a pharma, CRO or biotech environment.
• 2-3 years’ experience of directly implementing or managing international CROs in an industrial environment.
• Solid understanding of the drug discovery process with an emphasis in biology and/or biologics.
• Track record of establishing and maintaining effective working relationships with key internal and external stakeholders.
• Comfortable communicating with different types of audiences at various levels of seniority, including writing and presenting business cases and building strong relationships.
• Strong organisation skills, and detail-oriented approach to work.

Culture and values

We are guided by our shared values:

• Thoughtful: Curiosity, creativity and care.
• Brave: Fearlessness, initiative and integrity.
• Determined: Confidence in our hypothesis, as well as the urgency and agility needed to deliver on it.
• Together: Connection, collaboration across fields and catalytic relationships.

Hybrid working

This role requires you to be able to come into the office 3 days a week (currently Tuesday, Wednesday, and one other day depending on which team you’re in).