Biotech

About the Role

We are seeking an experienced Programme Manager to lead and coordinate an accelerated development programme through CMC, preclinical, and IND-enabling phases. This is a unique opportunity to join a fast-moving biotech start-up in its build phase, driving execution across multiple CROs and workstreams.

The role is remote, requiring a highly flexible, hands-on approach and the ability to operate beyond rigid functional boundaries.

 

Key Responsibilities:

Programme Leadership:

• Maintain and drive the integrated development plan (CMC → PK → tox → IND).
• Own critical path, dependencies, risks, and mitigation strategies.
• Lead weekly operational cadence across internal teams and CROs.
• Adapt execution structure as the programme scales.

Vendor & CRO Management:

• Manage interactions with CROs across CMC, enzyme engineering, PK/PD, and in-vivo studies.
• Oversee SOWs, change orders, deliverables, budgets, and issue escalation.
• Ensure structured communication and alignment across all vendors.

CMC & Preclinical Coordination:

• Coordinate execution across analytics, linker/payload activities, formulation strategy, biodistribution, PK studies, and GLP tox planning.

Timeline, Budget & Documentation:

• Own Gantt charts, budget tracking, and deliverable logs.
• Ensure complete documentation and data-room organisation.
• Prepare operational materials for investors, advisors, and Board.

Regulatory Readiness:

• Coordinate packages and timelines supporting IND-enabling activities.
• Liaise with regulatory consultants to ensure programme alignment.

Build-Phase Flexibility:

• Operate effectively in a lean, high-intensity start-up environment.
• Contribute to establishing processes, templates, and operational cadence.
• Comfortable working outside narrow functional boundaries when needed.

 

Candidate Profile:

Essential Experience:

• 5+ years as a Programme/ Project Manager in biotech or CRO environments.
• Proven experience coordinating CMC and/or preclinical development programmes.
• Strong CRO/vendor management across multiple concurrent workstreams.
• Experience managing complex development timelines and budgets.
• Familiarity with biologics/ADC/large molecule workflows.

Desirable Experience:

• Exposure to ADCs or antibody-based therapeutics.
• Experience in early-stage or lean biotech settings.
• Contribution to IND-enabling packages.

Personal Attributes:

• Highly structured, delivery-focused, and operationally rigorous.
• Independent, proactive, and comfortable with ambiguity.
• Strong communicator with excellent organisational discipline.
• Thrives in a remote-first, high-accountability environment.

 

Ready to take ownership of a high-impact development programme and help bring first-in-class therapeutics to patients?
Apply now by sending your CV today!

​RBW Consulting are partnered with a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company developing next-generation, programmed T cell therapies for the treatment of cancer. Using a broad suite of proprietary and modular T cell programming technologies, the company is engineering precisely targeted, controlled and highly active T cell therapies that are designed to better recognise cancer cells, break down their defence mechanisms and eliminate these cells. They have a pipeline of product candidates in development for the treatment of haematological malignancies and solid tumours.

 

The Manager - Tissue Operations is accountable for managing onboarding and on-going performance of Apheresis and Treatment Centres used for Clinical Chimeric Antigen Receptor (CAR) T-cell Therapies.  This role will serve as the technical operations single point of contact for Apheresis and Treatment Centres located within the designated region and may require management of contract employees.

 

This role is remotely based to service designated regions. Regional travel up to 75% of time may be required.

 

Key Responsibilities

• Develop and foster relationships with Apheresis, Cell Lab and Treatment Centre Staff for assigned region.

• Work with Clinical and Commercial CAR-T teams to establish the apheresis collection footprint to support the clinical trial site plans for assigned region.

• Coordinate with internal teams and collection site staff to ensure all collection site onboarding activities are successfully completed and sites are prepared to perform collections within the required timelines.

• Communicate collection site on-boarding status to Clinical teams and develop and execute mitigation plans for any delayed timelines.

• Perform technical site assessments and train collection center staff on collection requirements and attend site audits as required Provide Quality Systems support by participating in deviation activities and impact/investigation assessments for cell collection centers.

• Work with Quality Assurance and other internal business partners to monitor and assess vendor performance and capacity after site launch.

• Manage rollout of process changes to assigned sites. Collect VOC (voice of customer) and VOB (voice of business) feedback used for continuous operations improvement

• Collect and enter data into electronic data management systems Represent the department on cross-functional project teams, as requested.

• Comply with applicable SOP’s and regulations.

Demonstrated skills and competencies:

E – Essential

P – Preferred

Experience

• Experience in Apheresis Operations Management, QA Operations, GMP production, GTP or other relevant operational areas (E) Breadth of experience in regulated (GxP) environment, understanding of HTA (either hospital or pharmaceutical/biopharmaceutical company) (E)

• Experience working in Apheresis, Cellular Therapy or Stem Cell Transplant programs (P)

• Experience working with critical raw material suppliers or contract manufacturing organizations (E)

• Experience in an operational role for supplier qualification and management of external Apheresis, Cellular Therapy or Stem Cell Transplant programs. (P)

• Has successfully worked in a team-based environment. (E)

• Experience in delivering process improvements, ideally in processes for qualification, training, and management of external cell procurement (Apheresis) suppliers. (E)

• Experience managing contracts with external apheresis providers. (P)

• Prior customer facing role in pharmaceutical/biotech industry (P)

Qualifications

• Undergraduate degree in related science or nursing (E)

• Advanced degree in related science or nursing (P)

• Be fluent in English and Vietnamese (E)

Skills/Specialist knowledge

• Ability to rapidly solve problems and deal with organizational complexity

• Ability to prioritize and complete work with sense of urgency based on criticality

• Medical, scientific and clinical knowledge

• Knowledge of applicable regulations and standards

• High attention to detail skills

• High organization skills with ability to multi-task several tasks in parallel

• Customer-centricity — Consider the impacts of decisions on the customer (treatment centre), striving to ensure that process changes improve and do not impede customer service when possible, while ensuring compliance with regulations

• Excellent interpersonal and presentation skills to communicate effectively across all levels within the organization and multiple cultures

 

Please apply here and Harry Henson will be in touch to discuss your application further.