Cro Manager

**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 setting-up 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 long-term 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 up-to-date in a specific area / take part in conferences for target scouting

**Who you are**:

- ** 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**:

- Hands-on 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, cell-based 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 chemistry-related KPIs is a plus
- Ability to work with online data-related 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 world-class 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**
- A competitive salary and BSPCE policy
- Hybrid remote working policy: 2 days/week can be worked remotely
- Nice office in Paris, Pasteur's area
- Alan mutuelle, Swile lunch card
- Transport contribution: green participation if you come by bike