Associate Director/Director, Drug Product - CMC

Description of Role

Centessa ’s CMC group is currently see king a n ( Associate ) Director of Drug Product within the CMC group to support our early stage programs . The successful candidate will have a demonstrated track record of designing high performance nonclinical and clinical formulations as well as managing CROs and CDMOs. The candidate should also have hands-on experience in developing and manufacturing nonclinical and clinical small molecule drug products to support Phase I to Phase III. This candidate will primarily lead work with various vendors and oversee nonclinical formulation development, with flexibility to support clinical drug product development, across programs to meet company deliverables and timelines . Travel to vendors both domestically and internationally might occasionally be required .

Key Responsibilities

• Manage and guide external vendors, such as Contract Research Organizations (CROs) and Contract Development and Manufacturing Organizations (CDMOs) to:
• Execute physiochemical characterization and pre-formulation studies for New Chemical Entities (NCEs). <li data-leveltext="" data-font="Symbol" data-listid="3" data-list-defn-props="{"335552541":1,"335559685":1080,"335559991":360,"469769226":"Symbol","469769242":[8226],"469777803":"left","469777804":&a