Associate Project Manager

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The company

Vaccitech plc is a fast-growing biotech company. At only six years old we already have a development portfolio of nine programmes, including a partnered product that is in commercial production and that has seen more than 3 billion doses administered worldwide and an IPO behind us. We are a publicly listed clinical stage biopharmaceutical company that spun out of the University of Oxford’s Jenner Institute, one of the most prestigious vaccine research centres in the world. We discover and develop immunotherapeutic products and vaccines for the treatment and prevention of infectious diseases, cancer, and autoimmunity. Our achievements include co-inventing and jointly developing our COVID-19 vaccine candidate VTP-900, now Vaxzevria, which we assigned to Oxford University Innovation to facilitate the licensing of those rights to AstraZeneca. We run clinical studies to explore treatments for patients with HBV and HPV infections and are developing rapid and scalable manufacturing processes for our platforms.

In December 2021, Vaccitech acquired Avidea Technologies Inc. with exciting product candidates for oncology and autoimmunity based on the innovative SNAPvax platform, which has demonstrated unprecedented control over T cell induction. This gives us U.S operational presence in Maryland, complements Vaccitech’s established capabilities and reinforces our position as a fast-growing global leader in immunotherapies and vaccines. Vaccitech’s UK headquarters has recently moved to a state-of-the-art facility in the UK’s leading science and innovation campus at Harwell. We conduct research globally and have ambitious plans in the UK and US, where we will continue to grow our teams over the coming months and years.

The Role

Assisting the Senior Project Manager, working in manufacturing, in organising our ongoing projects. This task involves monitoring project plans, schedules, budgets, and expenditures, organizing and participating in internal and external meetings with Contract Manufacturing Organisation’s, ensuring that project deadlines are met and Investigational Medical Product is produced in a timely manner to the regulatory and quality requirements for the products stage of development.

Key responsibilities include:

• Maintaining and monitoring project plans, project schedules, work budgets and expenditures.
• Support of manufacturing by the maintenance of manufacturing documents such as product specifications, Batch Manufacturing Records, development reports and contracts
• Maintaining manufacturing trackers, shipping logs, legal trackers and financial trackers
• Organising, attending and participating in internal and external meetings.
• Documenting and following up on important actions and decisions from meetings.
• Preparing necessary presentation materials for meetings.
• Ensuring project deadlines are met.
• Determining project changes.
• Providing administrative support as needed and undertaking project tasks as required.
• Ensuring projects are within scope and all documentation is maintained appropriately for each project.

Qualifications and/or experience required to perform the role

Essential Knowledge, experience and skills:

• BSc in a science field preferably a biological science with knowledge of virology.
• 1- 2 years experience of a technical role within viral vector manufacture or biologics manufacture and/or equivalent experience in science/technical project management
• Excellent written and verbal communication and presentation skills.
• Able to multi-task and work with multiple team members.
• Must be detail orientated.
• Excellent organisational and interpersonal skills.
• Ability to work effectively both independently and as part of a team with a “can do” attitude.
• Competency in Microsoft suite applications including Word, Excel, and
• Ability to work on tight deadlines.

Desired skills:

• Experience in virology and/or Infectious Disease studies
• Ability to use MS Project and track timelines.
• Experience or understanding of biologics manufacturing to GMP
• Working with external CMO’s and experts in the delivery of projects.
• Commercial awareness, interpersonal and negotiating skills.

Personal Abilities and Traits:

• Demonstrates personal drive and goal orientation.
• Self-motivated taking personal pride in delivering on personal and corporate objectives.
• Enthusiastic and flexible to change.
• Demonstrates organisational and prioritisation skills to manage a diverse workload.
• Able to interact with individuals at all levels of the organisation.
• Good communicator, both orally and in writing with an eye for detail/ accuracy.
• Reliable and trustworthy,
• Keen to learn new skills and gain knowledge within the field of vaccines.

What we can offer you

• Hybrid working (4 days onsite, 1 work from home)
• Discretionary annual bonus scheme
• Stock options
• 25 days holiday, increasing on length of service
• AXA Healthcare plan
• Life Insurance
• Up to 6% pension contribution matched by the company

Notice to recruiters

Vaccitech’s internal Talent Acquisition leads recruitment and employment for Vaccitech. Unsolicited resumes sent to Vaccitech from recruiters do not constitute any type of relationship between the recruiter and Vaccitech and do not obligate Vaccitech to pay fees should we hire from those resumes. Vaccitech operate a preferred list of recruitment suppliers, any and all equiries about joining us as a supplier should be directed to Vaccitech’s TA Team. We ask that external recruiters and/ or agencies not contact or present candidates directly to our hiring manager or employees.