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Bicara Therapeutics · 1 week ago

Vice President, Program Team Lead

Boston, MA

Full-time

Hybrid

Director/Executive

$320K/yr - $375K/yr

12+ years exp

Bicara Therapeutics is a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company committed to bringing transformative bifunctional therapies to patients with solid tumors. The Vice President, Program Team Lead will provide strategic leadership for the ficerafusp alfa program, overseeing drug development and commercialization while integrating cross-functional perspectives to achieve program goals.

BiopharmaBiotechnologyLife ScienceOncologyTherapeutics

Hiring Manager

Maggie Stokinger

Responsibilities

As Program Team Lead the cross-functional team of leaders responsible for setting and achieving the long-term vision for ficerafusp alfa

Incorporate the long-term vision from early development onwards enabling us to optimize clinical development plans across therapeutic indications

Oversee the development of cross functional strategic plans to develop, register, and commercialize ficerafusp alfa

Integrate cross functional perspectives, ensuring scientific rigor, emerging clinical data, competition, and the evolving landscape in key markets are incorporated routinely to inform program direction

Work with the functional leads and senior leadership to set program goals aligned with corporate goals

Mentor program managers responsible for oversight of execution of the CDP

Serve as thought leader for alliance execution and relationship management

Build and maintain strong, collaborative relationships with external partners, acting as the primary point of contact and resolving conflicts between organizations

Foster strong cross functional team performance, empowering the team while driving alignment, accountability, prioritization, and timely decision making to deliver on program and corporate goals

On an ongoing basis, proactively anticipate issues and ensure contingency plans are put in place; identify barriers and problem-solve to mitigate them; identify opportunities and how to capture them

Communications: Champion the ficerafusp alfa program and provide critical updates between the teams and senior leaders, ensuring strategic alignment and awareness of changes to strategy or timelines

Partner with senior leadership on long-range planning, enabling accurate projections, financial and portfolio analyses to inform resource allocation

Serve as an external ambassador, fostering broad engagement to cultivate strategic KOL relationships and enabling overall integration of external insights to inform strategy

Ensure ongoing monitoring of the competitive landscape, synthesis, and communication of program implications is incorporated into strategic program imperatives

Partner with corporate communications and the Executive Team to develop communication strategies, positioning, and messaging

Drive innovation by challenging the status quo and seeking internal and external best practices, contributing to strategic thinking at the program

Qualification

Drug development leadershipCommercialization experienceStrategic prioritizationStakeholder influenceCross-functional team managementAuthentic leadershipTalent developmentCommunication skills

Required

BA/BS degree required

12+ years of industry experience with 8+ years leading drug development programs

Experience leading late-stage programs through commercialization

Broad and deep understanding of drug development, registration and pre-commercialization

Fully and consistently demonstrates strong communication skills across all levels and functions – able to succinctly summarize complex issues (verbally and in writing) to move team forward serving as a role model for others

Fully and consistently demonstrates strategic prioritization – helping teams to pivot and manage competing priorities and changing needs in fast-paced environment – providing clarity of direction to the team

An authentic leader who builds and maintains strong relationships and trust, with exceptional ability to influence key stakeholders at all

Ability to inspire, empower and motivate teams often without direct authority to cultivate high performance by creating a boundary-less environment that invites diverse perspectives, continual improvement, and opportunistic thinking

Ability to attract, retain and develop talent, either as a manager or a leader of a cross functional team

Preferred

Advanced degree preferred (e.g., MBA, PharmD, PhD, MD, MPH, MS)

Company

Bicara Therapeutics

Bicara Therapeutics develops dual-action cancer therapies, combining targeted treatments with tumor modulators for enhanced impact. It is a sub-organization of Biocon.

Founded in 2020

Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA

51-200 employees