Drug Discovery Resource Outsourcing Manager

🕒 October 9

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $146k - $193k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

👔 Manager

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Absci

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51 - 200 employees

Founded 2011

🧬 Biotechnology

🤖 Artificial Intelligence

💊 Pharmaceuticals

Biotechnology • Artificial Intelligence • Pharmaceuticals

Absci is a biotechnology company that uses generative artificial intelligence together with wet-lab validation to design de novo biologics, primarily antibodies. Its integrated AI Drug Creation Platform performs data generation, model training, de novo design, multi-parametric lead optimization, and AI-enabled target discovery (using reverse immunology) to uncover novel antibody/target pairs and accelerate IND-enabling studies. Absci advances internal and partnered therapeutic programs—such as ABS-201, a designed antibody targeting prolactin receptors for androgenetic alopecia—and emphasizes rapid iterative cycles between AI and lab work to shorten biologics discovery timelines.

📋 Description

• Serve as the single intake point for internal research requests across early R&D activities. • Assess requests against internal expertise, instrument and platform availability, and team capacity; recommend internal, external, or hybrid execution. • Escalate priority conflicts to program and functional leadership. • Identify, evaluate, and shortlist CROs in China based on capability, capacity, quality systems, data integrity, IP posture, and cost. • Build and maintain a qualified vendor list mapped to service categories. • Drive execution of CDAs/NDAs and Master Service Agreements before SOWs are needed. • Draft, negotiate, and shepherd SOWs, work orders, change orders, and purchase requisitions through Legal, Finance, and Procurement. • Act as day-to-day liaison between internal scientists and CRO project teams through kickoff meetings, protocol alignment, progress reviews, and data delivery. • Conduct meetings, negotiations, and written correspondence with CRO partners in Mandarin; translate and reconcile technical requirements across languages. • Report on cycle time, on-time delivery, spend versus budget, and data quality; use metrics to refine work allocation.

🎯 Requirements

• BS/MS in a life sciences discipline (biochemistry, molecular biology, biotechnology, immunology, protein science, pharmacology, or related); PhD welcome. • 5+ years in biotech or pharma with direct exposure to early discovery R&D. • Demonstrated experience outsourcing research work to CROs, including familiarity with NDA/CDA → MSA → SOW → change order. • Professional fluency in Mandarin Chinese (spoken and written) and English. • Strong project management skills and ability to manage competing priorities. • Excellent judgment about confidentiality and IP. • Experience specifically with China-based CROs and an existing network among them (preferred). • Background in biologics or antibody discovery or in small-molecule discovery (preferred). • Legal authorization to work in the United States is required.

🏖️ Benefits

• Offers equity • Offers bonus • Willingness to travel nationally and internationally 2–4 times per year for site visits and partner reviews (preferred)

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