• Drive strategic discussions and decision making across a broad portfolio of projects spanning drug discovery, development, and commercialization. Continuously adapt strategy based on shifting internal priorities and external circumstances• Ensure deep integration of strategy & planning by regularly engaging senior stakeholders in all functions: Clinical Development & Operations, Commercial, Finance, Legal, Regulatory, Research, Technical Operations, and Translational Medicine• Lead core team meetings --incl. preparation, real-time facilitation, minuting, and follow-up-- with a focus on timely execution, problem solving, risk mitigation, and proactive planning. Conduct ad hoc sub-team meetings to ensure robust follow-through• Build, maintain, and frequently communicate project timelines, including scenarios deriving from key risks and decision points. Ensure continuous availability of this information to teams and management via online project portals• Champion implementation and continuity of key external relationships (industry and academic) by working closely with Alliance Management and senior leaders• Develop a high-performing culture that prizes shared goals, transparency, and trust; build a Program Management function that models these qualities on a day-to-day basis• Supervise a senior project manager, with a strong focus on career development to meet both individual and company goals over the longer term

• Drive the progression of complex, non-traditional drug discovery projects and technology platforms (biologics & low-molecular-weight) in a large biopharma setting• Work as part of team leadership on 4-6 projects to develop and continuously adapt project strategy based on internal data and shifting external circumstances• Facilitate effective decision making and prudent risk taking, frequently employing scenario planning in the process• Maintain efficient communication and forward momentum on distributed global project teams; proactively manage all stakeholders and work with various line functions to secure resources.• Build and maintain high-performing teams by setting clear shared objectives and resolving any conflicts in a positive and timely fashion• Orchestrate project reviews and provide strategic recommendations to upper management based on holistic, portfolio-level insight• Set agendas for and actively facilitate meetings at all levels (sub-team to boardroom), providing detailed minutes, action item follow-up, and database maintenance• Provide alliance management for external collaborations

• Responsible for a small portfolio of animal health projects spanning different indications in multiple species; oversaw all phases from concept to pivotal animal trials• Built monoclonal antibody engineering/speciation platforms de novo, e.g. for ‘caninization’• Directed the in-house development of animal health-specific assays and reagents for protein expression & purification, hybridoma campaigns, CHO cell line establishment, and in vivo analytics (PK/PD & immunogenicity)

• Devised a method for direct reprogramming of adult mouse fibroblasts into cardiac tissue• Discovered novel modulators of pluripotency in mouse embryonic stem cells

• Characterized lipid signaling pathways regulating membrane and organelle homeostasis• Devised a yeast genetic screen for bacterial factors disrupting eukaryotic membrane traffic