CRO & Outsourcing Manager

Permanent contract
Paris
Salary: Not specified
A few days at home
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Aqemia
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About Aqemia

Aqemia is a next-gen pharmatech company generating one of the world's fastest-growing drug discovery pipeline.

Our mission is to design fast innovative drug candidates for dozens of critical diseases.

Our differentiation lies in our unique quantum and statistical mechanics algorithms fueling a generative artificial intelligence to design novel drug candidates. The disruptive speed and accuracy of our technological platform enables us to scale drug discovery projects just like tech projects. Our endeavors are further underscored by prestigious partnerships with industry leaders, including prominent pharmaceutical companies, FrenchTech ecosystem, and esteemed investment funds.

The difference you’ll make:

As the CRO & Outsourcing 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, Princeton, Ecole Normale Supérieure, Ecole Polytechnique, BCG...). 

    - We are also a multinational team: our 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 are part of the French Tech 2030 program (https://lafrenchtech.com/fr/la-france-aide-les-startup/french-tech-2030/).

    - We recently signed a $140 million contract with Sanofi to accelerate their drug discovery.

    - Global Series A fundraising of up to 60M€.

    What can we offer

    - Competitive salary and BSPCE policy

    - Hybrid remote working policy: 2 days/week can be worked remotely

    - Beautiful office in Paris, metro Pasteur (line 12)/Sèvres-Lecourbe (line 6)/Duroc (lines 13 & 10) - Montparnasse station less than 15 minutes walk.

    - Alan mutuelle, Swile lunch card

    - Transportation: green participation if you come by bike

    - If needed: a relocation package to move to Paris, including various services to help you get settled

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