Senior Scientific Portfolio Manager

Job Title: Senior Scientific Portfolio Manager

Position Summary: The Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research ("the Foundation") is seeking top talent for its Senior Scientific Portfolio Manager position. Reporting to the Director of Translational Biomarkers, this position develops a scientific strategy for biomarker-focused portfolios spanning discovery, validation, and clinical implementation.

The Senior Scientific Portfolio Manager oversees complex portfolios and programs throughout all stages of grant-making and funding, including proposal development, review, contracting, milestone management, and close-out. This role requires shaping of an impact-driven biomarker agenda—advancing fluid biomarkers to accelerate therapeutic development and improve clinical trial design. This position synthesizes emerging biomarker science to inform funding priorities, collaborates closely with internal and external stakeholders, and communicates portfolio strategy and progress to partners and donors.

Key Responsibilities:

• Shapes, recommends, and communicates a creative, solutions-focused, value-added scientific agenda/POV within assigned biomarker portfolios and programs, leveraging input from internal team and external advisors and regularly communicates progress

• Manages assigned portfolio(s) (depending on experience level) through all stages of grant-making and funding (proposal development, review, contracting, milestone management, and close-out), troubleshooting and problem-solving as needed

• Conceptualizes and implements departmental RFAs and RFPs, communicates learnings and makes suggestions for improving processes through discussions with team members

• Supports department management with operational and budgetary planning around assigned portfolios and/or programs

• Develops and maintains strong positive relationships with research community and key opinion leaders in assigned programs and/or portfolios

• Serves as organization point person for internal and external communication of progress in assigned programs/portfolios/cross-functional strategies

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