Project Manager, Diakonos Oncology

Diakonos Oncology is developing DOC1021, an autologous dendritic cell vaccine for aggressive cancers. The Project Manager coordinates execution across clinical, CMC, regulatory, preclinical, and research teams, tracking plans, milestones, risks, and partner handoffs.

Responsibilities:

• Own the integrated project plan across clinical, CMC, regulatory, preclinical, and research
• Turn leadership decisions and meeting outcomes into clear actions with owners and due dates, and follow through until they’re done
• Identify critical-path activities, dependencies, and tradeoffs, and bring options to leadership
• Coordinate handoffs with internal teams, CROs, CDMOs, and academic partners
• Run focused project reviews and keep action and decision logs
• Keep milestone progress, risks, and recovery actions visible through dashboards and status updates

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in health care or another scientific discipline (or equivalent)
• 5+ years of clinical project management experience
• Hands-on PM experience in biotech, pharma or a related life-sciences setting
• Strong planning skills: integrated schedules, Gantt charts, dependency maps, risk tracking
• The confidence to hold colleagues and senior leaders accountable while keeping working relationships constructive
• Clear writing and speaking, with sound judgment about when to resolve an issue yourself and when to escalate
• oncology, cell therapy or immunotherapy experience
• experience working with CROs, CDMOs and academic partners
• Asana and Microsoft 365/SharePoint
• experience building a PM process in a growing biotech