The difference you’ll make:

As the CRO & Outsourcing Manager, you will be at the forefront of Aqemia's drug discovery efforts, responsible for driving strategic partnerships and ensuring high-performance collaborations with CROs.

Your key responsibilities will include:

Day-to-day operations with CROs - (60% of the time)

- Oversee our campaigns of screening

- Check assay availabilities in our partnered CROs

- For novel targets: provide scientific support on identifying the proper screening assay and setting-up the work with the identified CRO

- Manage and track compound purchases

- Coordinate assays with CROs

- Check consistency of experimental results

- Ensure reception and communication of results

- Support Drug Discovery Project Leaders in their needs

- Compounds order (punctual vs on demand chemistry)

- CRO benchmarking on specific assays

- Identify and setup needed cell assays with the proper CRO

- CRO prospection and relationships

- Meet with current CROs monthly to address long-term questions

- Challenge KPIs on chemistry and TAT on biological assays

- Prospect potential CROs and benchmark them

- Cost tracking and contracting

- Manage invoicing with CROs

- Keep track of projects CRO costs

- Negotiate contracts and contract renewals

Scientific support in targets exploration and DD projects - (20% of the time)

- Analyze novel targets from a biological perspective: therapeutic area, assays to be set up, and input on differentiation from the competition

- Provide input in drug discovery projects data packages

Supporting other project as (non-exhaustive list):

- Help in R&D funding,

- Provide to tech team inputs for improvement from a biological perspective

- Staying up-to-date in a specific area / take part in conferences for target scouting

Who you are: