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About the role
Join Maze Therapeutics as our Associate Director, CMC Project Management. In this highly visible role within Technical Operations, you will drive cross-functional planning and execution across our pipeline programs while managing development and manufacturing timelines in collaboration with our CMOs.
What they're looking for
- Bachelor's degree in life sciences, scientific, technical, engineering, or business discipline required (or equivalent relevant experience), advanced degree preferred
- Minimum of 10 years total professional experience, including at least 5 years in project management within the pharmaceutical, biotechnology, or medical device industry
- At least 3 years directly managing cross-functional teams in a matrixed organization, with demonstrated success driving complex programs to completion in fast-paced environments
- Working knowledge of CMC and drug development functions such as process development, analytical development, formulation, manufacturing, quality systems, supply chain, packaging, and regulatory CMC requirements
- Understanding of the drug development lifecycle from Pre-IND through NDA/commercialization, including clinical development processes, experience with late-stage or commercial programs is a plus
- Familiarity with GMP/GxP-regulated environments and quality management systems, ideally within small molecule modalities
More about this role
Join Maze Therapeutics as our Associate Director, CMC Project Management. In this highly visible role within Technical Operations, you will drive cross-functional planning and execution across our pipeline programs while managing development and manufacturing timelines in collaboration with our CMOs. Reporting to the VP, Technical Operations, you will partner closely with CMC, Quality, and key internal stakeholders to enable program milestones, support regulatory success, and ultimately help bring potential medicines to patients.
- Provide end-to-end CMC project management support across the drug development lifecycle.
- Lead cross-functional teams (Chemical Development, Pharmaceutical Develop ment , CMC Analytical, QA, CMC Regulatory, and Clinical Supply Chain) to plan and execute CMC activities aligned with corporate goals .
- Serve as the point of contact to facilitate the meeting discussions with the CMOs and follow up on the action items .
- Own risk management for assigned programs — establishing risk registries, identifying and mitigating risks, and escalating issues before they impact timelines or objectives .
- Serve as the primary CMC project management point of contact...
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