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Overview and Job Summary: We’re searching for a Chief Operating Officer (COO) who has strong leadership skills and the ability to approach business with a creative point of view. The COO will lead our team of high-performing professionals to be efficient, productive, and effective. The ideal candidate has extensive experience within our industry, preferably having worked their way up to an executive role. We believe this trajectory helps a person develop a unique mix of business and management expertise, plus proficiency with the practices, policies, and procedures of our industry.
About The Company
Founded in 2013 and based in San Diego, California, this company is a global, late-stage clinical mRNA medicines and vaccines company with enabling technologies and drug product manufacturing expertise. Arcturus’ diverse pipeline of RNA therapeutic and vaccine candidates includes mRNA vaccine programs for SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) and influenza, and other programs to potentially treat ornithine transcarbamylase (OTC) deficiency, and cystic fibrosis along with partnered programs including glycogen storage disease type III, and hepatitis B virus. Thiss company’s versatile RNA therapeutics platforms can be applied toward multiple types of nucleic acid medicines including messenger RNA, small interfering RNA, replicon RNA, antisense RNA, microRNA, DNA, and gene editing therapeutics. They are covered by their extensive patent portfolio (patents and patent applications issued and filed in the U.S., Europe, Japan, China and other countries).
They seek individuals to join them with a genuine passion for the science behind helping to cure disease and improve the lives of patients.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
- Serves as key member of the executive team, overseeing all operations of the company.
- Participates with the CEO and other executives in formulating current and long-range strategies, objectives, and global policies.
- Strong in managing cross-functional teams, global projects and due-diligence assessments.
- Translate strategy into actionable steps for growth, implementing organization-wide goal setting, performance management, and annual operations planning
- Dynamic, well-rounded and results-driven senior executive with demonstrated history of growth and accomplishment.
- Excellent communicator and innovative leader.
- Ensure compliance with national and local business regulations, and take appropriate action when necessary
- Analyze internal operations and identify areas for process enhancement
- Implement business strategies and plans that align with the short- and long-term objectives developed in tandem with CEO
- Define development activities and budget and ensure key business requirements are achieved in day-to-day operations.
- Integrates and analyses operational plans and ensures consistency, capacity and effectiveness globally.
- Build and maintain trusting relationships with key partners, investors, and stakeholders
Required Education and Experience:
- Bachelor’s Degree in Science, Business or Finance
- 20+ years, broad pharma operations experience desired, with a strong track record of execution within budget constraints
- Experience with pharma/biotech operations—including but not limited to commercial operations, project and portfolio management oversight, financial operations, clinical operations, technical operations, manufacturing operations, scientific operations, international experience
- Advanced degree is preferred which may include MD, PhD or MBA.
- Respected leadership skills, with steadfast resolve and personal integrity.
- Understanding of advanced business planning and regulatory issues.
- Must be comfortable in a high growth environment.
They are committed to equal employment opportunity and non-discrimination for all employees and qualified applicants without regard to a person’s race, color, sex, gender identity or expression, age, religion, national origin, ancestry, ethnicity, disability, veteran status, genetic information, sexual orientation, marital status, or any characteristic protected under applicable law.
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