Senior Associate, Project Planning
Beam Therapeutics
Summary
This role reports to the Senior Director of Project Management and Operational Excellence in NC and is in the NC PMO Organization. This role is responsible for providing project management leadership and execution support for critical site, manufacturing, quality, and commercialization initiatives by driving program readiness, technology transfers, campaign execution, CQV prioritization, and cross-functional coordination. This role is responsible for translating priorities into actionable plans, managing risks and dependencies, ensuring on-time delivery of key milestones, and supporting operational excellence through change management, continuous improvement, PMO best practices, and commercial readiness activities across Beam's evolving portfolio.
Job description
Position Overview
This role reports to the Senior Director of Project Management and Operational Excellence in NC and is in the NC PMO Organization. This role is responsible for providing project management leadership and execution support for critical site, manufacturing, quality, and commercialization initiatives by driving program readiness, technology transfers, campaign execution, CQV prioritization, and cross-functional coordination. This role is responsible for translating priorities into actionable plans, managing risks and dependencies, ensuring on-time delivery of key milestones, and supporting operational excellence through change management, continuous improvement, PMO best practices, and commercial readiness activities across Beam's evolving portfolio.
Responsibilities
- Manage clinical program campaign readiness activities, ensuring cross-functional alignment, risk management, operational preparedness, and successful execution of manufacturing campaigns.
- Provide end-to-end support for campaign planning, execution, and closure activities, including lessons learned, action tracking, readiness assessments, and delivery against key milestones.
- Lead and coordinate technology transfer, operational readiness, and GMP readiness activities across programs and manufacturing operations.
- Provide project management leadership and prioritization support for site-wide CQV activities, ensuring alignment of resources, schedules, dependencies, risks, and execution priorities across Manufacturing, Engineering, Validation, and Quality.
- Facilitate and manage Tier 2 governance forums, driving accountability, issue resolution, escalation management, and execution of critical site priorities.
- Lead project management and execution support for site-level change controls, ensuring timely delivery and cross-functional coordination for non-program-specific initiatives.
- Provide project management support to QC, ensuring priorities are translated into actionable plans, dependencies and risks are proactively managed, deliverables remain on track, and teams remain aligned to support key program milestones, site growth, process improvements, and commercialization objectives.
- Support manufacturing readiness, facility readiness, equipment readiness, validation readiness, and operational startup activities associated with new capabilities, process improvements, and site expansion initiatives.
- Develop and maintain integrated project plans, governance processes, schedule visibility, KPI reporting, and communication tools that improve execution, transparency, and decision-making across the site.
Flexible support for other PMO initiatives
- APS program improvements and strategic planning activities.
- Operational Excellence and Readiness (OER) program leadership and continuous improvement initiatives.
- External manufacturing coordination and planning process improvements.
- PMO best-practice development, governance enhancement, and project management capability building.
- Continuous improvement and operational excellence projects.
- Commercial readiness initiatives, including launch preparedness, operational planning, cross-functional coordination, and support for future commercial program changes.
- Site planning, capacity planning, resource forecasting, and other strategic operational initiatives as business priorities evolve.
Requirements
- Typically 4+ years with 3+ years' experience in biotechnology, cell therapy or pharmaceutical industry is preferred
- Bachelor's degree with a focus in business, engineering or science
- Ability to coordinate, facilitate and organize resources and information in a timely manner
- Ability to develop strategic relationships, strong verbal and written communication skills
- Must possess good to excellent writing and computer skills with a knowledge base in Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Project
- Knowledge of concepts, practices and procedures related to project management
- Smartsheet and Office Timeline Pro experience is a plus
- Mathematical and reasoning ability
- Ability to interpret a variety of instructions furnished in written, oral, diagram or schedule form
- Ability to work under pressure to meet deadlines
- Strong organizational skills with the ability to handle multiple activities simultaneously
- Detail oriented and accuracy focused
- Ability to persuasively champion strategic ideas, as supported by sound rationale and analysis, and drive change within the organization
- Strong knowledge of concepts, practices and procedures related to biotechnology, cell therapy or pharmaceutical industry preferred
- Strong analytical, interpersonal, presentation and problem-solving skills
- Ability to analyze, break-down, and interpret a wide variety of information and form a strategic opinion while addressing the operational implication and the opinions and recommendations of colleagues
Company overview
Beam Therapeutics is a pioneering biotechnology company focused on developing precision genetic medicines through base editing technology. Founded by leading CRISPR researchers, the company leverages its proprietary base editing platform to create therapies that can make precise, single-letter changes to DNA without causing double-strand breaks. Beam's innovative approach addresses genetic diseases at their source by correcting point mutations that cause various inherited disorders. The company's pipeline includes programs targeting sickle cell disease, beta-thalassemia, and other genetic conditions. Beam Therapeutics represents the next generation of gene editing companies, building upon CRISPR technology to enable more precise and potentially safer genetic modifications. The company has established strategic partnerships and collaborations to advance its therapeutic programs and expand the applications of its base editing technology across multiple disease areas.