Drug Discovery Resource Outsourcing Manager
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Drug discovery outsourcing manager coordinating early R&D requests and China CRO partnerships for Absci, a generative-AI biotechnology company developing novel therapeutics.
Responsibilities:
- Serve as the single intake point for internal research requests across early R&D activities.
- Assess requests against internal expertise, instrument and platform availability, and team capacity; recommend internal, external, or hybrid execution.
- Escalate priority conflicts to program and functional leadership.
- Identify, evaluate, and shortlist CROs in China based on capability, capacity, quality systems, data integrity, IP posture, and cost.
- Build and maintain a qualified vendor list mapped to service categories.
- Drive execution of CDAs/NDAs and Master Service Agreements before SOWs are needed.
- Draft, negotiate, and shepherd SOWs, work orders, change orders, and purchase requisitions through Legal, Finance, and Procurement.
- Act as day-to-day liaison between internal scientists and CRO project teams through kickoff meetings, protocol alignment, progress reviews, and data delivery.
- Conduct meetings, negotiations, and written correspondence with CRO partners in Mandarin; translate and reconcile technical requirements across languages.
- Report on cycle time, on-time delivery, spend versus budget, and data quality; use metrics to refine work allocation.
Requirements:
- BS/MS in a life sciences discipline (biochemistry, molecular biology, biotechnology, immunology, protein science, pharmacology, or related); PhD welcome.
- 5+ years in biotech or pharma with direct exposure to early discovery R&D.
- Demonstrated experience outsourcing research work to CROs, including familiarity with NDA/CDA → MSA → SOW → change order.
- Professional fluency in Mandarin Chinese (spoken and written) and English.
- Strong project management skills and ability to manage competing priorities.
- Excellent judgment about confidentiality and IP.
- Experience specifically with China-based CROs and an existing network among them (preferred).
- Background in biologics or antibody discovery or in small-molecule discovery (preferred).
- Legal authorization to work in the United States is required.
Benefits:
- Offers equity
- Offers bonus
- Willingness to travel nationally and internationally 2–4 times per year for site visits and partner reviews (preferred)
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