Program Manager - DiscoveryOne

The Program Manager supports the successful execution of integrated drug discovery programs by providing project planning, coordination, governance, and operational leadership. Working closely with Scientific Project Leaders and cross-functional scientific teams, the Program Manager ensures that program activities remain aligned to agreed timelines, budgets, milestones, and client expectations.

The role is responsible for maintaining integrated project plans, facilitating communication across teams and sites, monitoring risks and dependencies, tracking budgets and deliverables, and supporting effective decision-making through clear reporting and governance.

The Program Manager serves as a key operational partner to Scientific Project Leaders, enabling efficient program execution and a high-quality client experience. Here's what you'll do: Develop and maintain integrated project plans, timelines, milestones, and action trackers. Coordinate program activities across multidisciplinary scientific teams.

Facilitate project meetings and document decisions, actions, risks, and dependencies. Monitor program performance against scope, timelines, budget, and deliverables. Support financial tracking, forecasting, and change management activities. Prepare program reports and dashboards for clients and internal stakeholders. Work closely with Scientific Project Leaders to align operational plans with scientific priorities.

Identify and escalate risks, issues, and schedule impacts. Support proposal development, project start-up, and program expansion activities. Contribute to continuous improvement of program management processes and tools.

The ideal candidate: Bachelor's degree in Life Sciences, Chemistry, Biology, Biotechnology, Pharmacy, or a related scientific discipline. A Master's degree is preferred. Typically 1-3 years of project or program management experience in a CRO, biotechnology, pharmaceutical, or related drug discovery environment.

Experience supporting or managing cross-functional programs involving multiple studies, stakeholders, timelines, budgets, and interdependent deliverables. Working knowledge of integrated drug discovery and the relationship between chemistry, biology, ADME/DMPK, pharmacology, safety, and toxicology activities.

Strong program planning and execution skills, including work breakdown, critical-path management, milestone tracking, prioritization, and delivery recovery. Ability to lead cross-functional, matrixed teams through influence, establish clear accountability, and drive timely decisions.

Strong financial and commercial acumen, including budget management, forecasting, revenue and margin awareness, invoicing visibility, and scope control. Working knowledge of risk and issue management, dependency management, change control, governance, and escalation practices. Strong client-facing communication, facilitation, negotiation, stakeholder-management, and presentation skills.

Proficiency with Microsoft Office and project-management, collaboration, reporting, and data-visualization tools; experience with Smartsheet, Microsoft Project, SharePoint, CRM, or ERP/AX is desirable.

The position is full-time, Monday-Friday, 8 a.m.- 5 p.m., with overtime as needed. What we offer: Excellent full time benefits including comprehensive medical coverage, dental, and vision options Life and disability insurance 401(k) with company match Paid vacation and holidays Eurofins USA Discovery Services is a Disabled and Veteran Equal Employment Opportunity employer.

Eurofins Scientific is an international life sciences company, providing a unique range of analytical testing services to clients across multiple industries, to make life and our environment safer, healthier and more sustainable.

From the food you eat, to the water you drink, to the medicines you rely on, Eurofins laboratories work with the biggest companies in the world to ensure the products they supply are safe, their ingredients are authentic and labelling is accurate.

The Eurofins network of companies is the global leader in food, environment, pharmaceutical and cosmetic product testing and in agroscience Contract Research Organization services.

It is one of the market leaders in certain testing and laboratory services for genomics, discovery pharmacology, forensics, advanced material sciences and in the support of clinical studies, as well as having an emerging global presence in Contract Development and Manufacturing Organizations.

It also has a rapidly developing presence in highly specialized and molecular clinical diagnostic testing and in-vitro diagnostic products. In over 30 years, Eurofins has grown from one laboratory in Nantes, France to 58,000 staff across a decentralized and entrepreneurial network of 900 laboratories in over 54 countries.

Eurofins companies offer a portfolio of over 200,000 analytical methods to evaluate the safety, identity, composition, authenticity, origin, traceability and purity of biological substances and products. In 2024, Eurofins generated total revenues of EUR € 6,515 billion, and has been among the best performing stocks in Europe over the past 20 years.