Senior Director, Operations and Strategy

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Cambridge, MA
Senior level
Biotech
The Role
The Senior Director of Operations and Strategy will drive the strategic goals of Origination, ensuring operational excellence and collaboration across Business Units while enhancing portfolio tracking and decision-making processes.
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 Who We Are

Flagship Pioneering is a life sciences company that invents and builds platform companies that change the world. We bring together the greatest scientific minds with entrepreneurial company builders and assemble the capital to allow them to take courageous leaps. Those big leaps in human health and sustainability exponentially accelerate scientific progress in areas ranging from cancer detection and treatment to nature-positive agriculture.  

What sets Flagship apart is our ability to advance biotechnology by uniting life science innovation, company creation, and capital investment under one roof in a way that is largely without precedent. Our scientific founders, entrepreneurial leaders, and professional capital managers are each aligned around an institutionalized process that enables us to innovate and transform for the benefit of people and planet.  

Many of the companies Flagship has founded have addressed humanity’s most urgent challenges: vaccinating billions of people against COVID-19, curing intractable diseases, improving human health, preempting illness, and feeding the world by improving the resiliency and sustainability of agriculture. 

Flagship has been recognized twice on FORTUNE’s “Change the World” list, an annual ranking of companies that have made a positive social and environmental impact through activities that are part of their core business strategies and has been twice named to Fast Company’s annual list of the World’s Most Innovative Companies.

Position Summary

Reporting to the Executive Partner, Origination and Corporate Development, the Senior Director, Operations and Strategy will partner with the Executive Partner to help drive the Flagship-wide goals in Origination. The Senior Director will be responsible for implementing the evolving strategic agenda for Origination across the six Pioneering Business Units that are responsible for company ideation and development, which includes help support the development and implementation of portfolio wide tracking and oversight, operational excellence in support of Origination activities.

Specific Responsibilities 

  • Help ensure scientific and operational excellence to maximize value across Flagship’s early company development.
  • Facilitate activities associated with company stage gates and develop systems for understanding and tracking Origination pipeline including advancing outcomes of regular portfolio review.
  • Support increase in cross-company and inter-PBU collaboration. Currently building pipeline of activity across stages of awareness, leverage and collaboration, defining heuristics for each stage and supporting identification and known areas of opportunity.
  • Elevate PBU and Functional interface to enable efficiency and effectiveness of Flagship’s innovation engine. Activities include advancing functional excellence project and other ongoing efforts.
  • Drive effective and efficient governance for Origination stakeholders in partnership with PBU leadership and Flagship leadership. 
  • Ensure operational success and effective decision-making for PBU Leaders and their early-stage companies in highly matrixed environment. Support NewCo to GrowthCo in concert with PBU governance framework (e.g., Origination and Growth leads) 

As Flagship continues to maximize its breadth and scale, new opportunities for influence and impact will likely emerge and will be considered

Key Qualifications and Attributes

  • Facile in a matrixed environment, comfortable with ambiguity
  • Deep relevant experience in industry or academia that allow for deep influencing of internal senior teams and Origination team members
  • 7+ years of experience working in life science companies or consulting firm preferred 
  • Sophisticated collaborator and communicator
  • Ability to drive complex projects with multiple stakeholders to completion
  • Engineering or Science background with ability to be value added interface with FSP PBUs (Ph.D. preferred) 
  • Passion for pioneering impact and value creation in the life sciences space based upon delivering human and planet health benefits 

Flagship Pioneering and our ecosystem companies are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status.

At Flagship, we recognize there is no perfect candidate. If you have some of the experience listed above but not all, please apply anyway. Experience comes in many forms, skills are transferable, and passion goes a long way. We are dedicated to building diverse and inclusive teams and look forward to learning more about your unique background.

Recruitment & Staffing Agencies:  Flagship Pioneering and its affiliated Flagship Lab companies (collectively, “FSP”) do not accept unsolicited resumes from any source other than candidates.  The submission of unsolicited resumes by recruitment or staffing agencies to FSP or its employees is strictly prohibited unless contacted directly by Flagship Pioneering’s internal Talent Acquisition team.   Any resume submitted by an agency in the absence of a signed agreement will automatically become the property of FSP, and FSP will not owe any referral or other fees with respect thereto

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The Company
HQ: Cambridge, MA
475 Employees
On-site Workplace
Year Founded: 2000

What We Do

Flagship Pioneering conceives, creates, resources, and develops first-in-category life sciences companies to transform human health and sustainability.

Since its launch in 2000, the firm has applied a unique, hypothesis-driven innovation process to originate and foster more than 100 scientific ventures, resulting in over $30 billion in aggregate value. To date, Flagship is backed by >$3 billion of aggregate capital commitments, of which over $1.5 billion has been deployed toward the founding and growth of its pioneering companies alongside >$10 billion of follow-on investments from other institutions.

The current Flagship ecosystem includes Denali Therapeutics (NASDAQ: DNLI), Evelo Biosciences (NASDAQ: EVLO), Moderna Therapeutics (NASDAQ: MRNA), Rubius Therapeutics (NASDAQ: RUBY), Seres Therapeutics (NASDAQ: MCRB), and Syros Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ: SYRS).

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