Vaxcyte
Associate Director, Business Process Management & Operational Excellence
San Carlos, California, United States · Director
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About the role
- Vaxcyte is a clinical-stage vaccine innovation company engineering high-fidelity vaccines to protect humankind from the consequences of bacterial diseases, which have serious and costly health consequences when left unchecked.
- Working to eradicate or treat bacterial infections such as invasive pneumococcal disease, Group A Strep, and Shigella is just the beginning.
- Our path to success is clear and well-defined, and Vaxcyte is set up to go the distance.
Requirements
- 10+ years of progressive experience in business process management, operational excellence, strategy execution, transformation, business operations, program leadership, or related disciplines.
- Strong understanding of operating models, governance, decision rights, continuous improvement, and organizational change and adoption.
- Exceptional facilitation, communication, problem-solving, and executive presentation skills, with the ability to influence without direct authority.
- Ability to operate effectively in a fast-paced, evolving environment and move comfortably between strategic thinking and hands-on execution.
Nice to have
- advanced degree preferred.
- Experience in biotechnology, pharmaceutical, biopharmaceutical manufacturing, Technical Operations, or another complex regulated environment strongly preferred.
- Bachelor's degree in Business, Operations, Engineering, Life Sciences, Organizational Development, or a related discipline
Skills
- Connect strategy, priorities, and execution by identifying gaps, interdependencies, and decisions needed to move work forward.
- Identify operational friction, duplication, bottlenecks, and handoff gaps, and simplify work across functional boundaries.
Compensation
- $170,000 - $200,000 (SF Bay Area). Salary ranges for non-California locations may vary.
- The compensation package will be competitive and includes comprehensive benefits and an equity component.
Benefits
- All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or veteran status.
Company info
- Join our Mission to Protect Humankind!
- WHAT we do is every bit as important as HOW we do it!
- Our work together is guided by four enduring core values:
- We bring creative and intellectual diversity to every facet of the work we do in order to innovate and re-innovate the way vaccines are delivered.
- We embody our collectively audacious goal to courageously make the most complex biologics ever attempted to protect humankind.
- Everyone leads at Vaxcyte with a kindness-first, inclusive approach to collaboration and vigorous debate that advances our business objectives.
- The magnitude of our challenge requires our shared commitment to demonstrating integrity, accountability, equality and clarity across communications and decision making.
Equal opportunity
- We are an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or veteran status.
- Recruitment Fraud Notice
- Please be aware of fraud or scams from individuals, organizations and/or internet sites claiming to represent Vaxcyte in recruitment activities. Vaxcyte has an established recruitment process for all positions prior to issuing an offer for employment and we will never extend unsolicited employment offers or ask candidates to provide financial or sensitive personal information as part of the application process. All legitimate communication from Vaxcyte will come from an official @vaxcyte.com email address. Qualified and interested candidates should apply to current openings at vaxcyte.com/careers.
- We are an equal opportunity employer.
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