Senior Project Manager

Senior Project Manager

Crinetics is a pharmaceutical company based in San Diego, California, developing much-needed therapies for people with endocrine diseases and endocrine-related tumors. We were founded by a dedicated team of scientists with the simple belief that better therapies developed from rigorous innovation can lead to better lives. Our work continues to make a real difference in the lives of patients. We have a prolific discovery engine and a robust preclinical and clinical development pipeline. We are driven by science with a patient-centric and team-oriented culture. We are also a dog-friendly workplace. This is an exciting time to join Crinetics as we shape our organization into the world's premier fully-integrated endocrine company from discovery to patients. Join our team as we transform the lives of others.

The Senior Project Manager (SPM) is responsible for the facilitation of cross-functional global product workstreams in close partnership with the Product PM Lead and the Global Product Team Leader. The SPM will be responsible for creating and maintaining integrated project plans and ensuring compliance with governance and change control processes. This position may be remote with expectation of being in San Diego 1-2 times per quarter.

Essential Job Functions and Responsibilities :

These may include but are not limited to :

• Facilitate cross-functional global product workstreams with the functional leads to develop, adapt, and drive integrated workstreams in support of the overall product strategy, which consider near and long-term cross functional impacts as well as region and country perspectives
• Develop integrated, cross-functional timelines and scenarios in support of the product strategy
• Interface with Finance team to ensure changes in budgets are captured in the forecast models. Work with Product PM Lead to manage cross functional team inputs for annual budgets, reforecasts, and long-range plans
• Responsible for meeting management including facilitation, setting agendas, recording, communicating, and following-through on action items, and tracking decisions
• Support integrating multiple indication timelines to a global product timeline that is maintained in real time and can be accessed by finance and management as necessary to make decisions
• Participate in drug development strategy sessions
• Provide support to project portfolio development and prioritization
• Manage large scope projects from initiation, planning, execution to control and closing phases
• Drive and oversee risk management, issue identification, and resolution and contingency planning for identified workstreams
• Manage monthly status reporting including program dashboards and management updates
• Assist in the creation of PM tools and templates
• Serve as conduit between Global Product Lead and / or Product PM and cross-functional stakeholders for identified workstreams
• Communicate to stakeholders on project status and influence strategy decisions

Education and Experience :

Required :

Physical Demands and Work Environment :

Physical Activities : On a continuous basis, sit at desk for a long period of time; intermittently answer telephone and write or use a keyboard to communicate through written means. Some walking and lifting up to 25 lbs. may be required. The noise level in the work environment is typically low to moderate. The physical demands described above are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions and responsibilities of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions and responsibilities.

Laboratory Activities (if applicable) : Biology and chemical laboratory environment experience needed. Environmental health and safety requirements also apply.

Travel : You may be required to travel for up to 5% of your time.

Equal Opportunity Employer :

Crinetics is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. We provide equal employment opportunities to all employees and employment applicants without regard to unlawful considerations of sex, sexual orientation, gender (including gender identity and / or expression), pregnancy, race, color, creed, national or ethnic origin, citizenship status, religion or similar philosophical beliefs, disability, marital and civil union status, age, genetic information, veteran status or any personal attribute or characteristic that is protected by applicable local, state or federal laws.

Vaccination requirement : Following extensive monitoring, research, consideration of business implications, and advice from internal and external experts, Crinetics requires that all employees and contractors be fully vaccinated and have received the COVID-19 vaccines as a condition of employment. "Full vaccination" is defined as two weeks after both doses of a two-dose vaccine or two weeks since a single-dose vaccine has been administered. Anyone unable to be vaccinated, either because of a sincerely held religious belief or a medical condition or disability that prevents them from being vaccinated, can request a reasonable accommodation.

Total Compensation :

The final salary offered to a successful candidate will be dependent on several factors that may include but are not limited to the type and length of experience and education. Crinetics Pharmaceuticals is a multi-state employer, and this salary range may not reflect positions that work in other states. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range during the hiring process.

Salary Range : $126,000 - $158,000. In addition to your base pay, our total rewards program consists of a discretionary annual target bonus, stock options, ESPP, and 401k match. We also provide top-notch health insurance plans for employees (and their families) to include medical, dental, vision and basic life insurance, 20 days of PTO, 10 paid holidays, and a winter company shutdown.