Commercial Chief of Staff - Spark Therapeutics, Inc. - Waltham, MA

RESPONSIBILITIES:

30% of the time

• Track and report priorities and objectives for the CCO’s staff. Track open items and due dates, work with staff to determine status and helping ensure objectives are achieved. Monitor progress in achieving objectives and ensuring effective communication of progress as needed.
  


• Prepare agenda for staff meetings, capture minutes, track and follow up on action items and prepare regular reports.
  


• Help organize commitments such as presentations to management committee, off sites, and other internal and external speaking engagements.
  


• Coordinate requests from other seniors and work collaboratively with their offices on meeting deliverables.
  


• Partner with Finance to help create, track and manage the department’s budget, financial reporting and headcount plan.

20% of the time

• Help support the overall communication needs for the CCO to include coordinating, organizing, and managing all meetings, develop related agendas and summarize meeting minutes.
  


• Create complex presentations – analyze data, determine how best to present the information, and create the slides.
  


• Coordinate and work with the CCO on presentations for Board and various external constituents and working cross functionally and determine appropriate content, messaging, and presentation.
  


• Maintain effective communications to all stakeholders, ensuring team interaction model is transparent and effective.

25% of the time

• Establish excellent working relationships with the CCO’s staff and the staff of other senior executives.
  


• Interact with individuals across the organization at all levels, functions and locations, providing a broad understanding of the organization while building relationships through Spark. Leverage relationships across the organization to influence, negotiate, and deliver results, while maintaining the utmost confidentiality.
  


• Serve as liaison to partner functions include Finance, HR, Communications as well as other key partners across Spark.

25% of the time

• Lead projects on an as required basis.
  


• Manage tasks and responsibilities associated with the planning, directing, coordinator and support of day to day activities relating to projects and initiatives.

QUALIFICATIONS:

• Sets high standards holds themselves as accountable as others
  


• Quickly focuses on the critical issues while prioritizing current work; managing multiple competing priorities at a very rapid pace
  


• Moves easily between addressing current needs and planning for the future with informed insight
  


• Encourages accountability and responsibility that enables others to act with integrity
  


• Excellent organizational and communication skills
  


• A team player with a selfless leadership style
  


• Self-starter/motivated, experience working in environments with resources consistent with a pre-launch phase product
  


• Demonstrated ability to manage multiple projects and excellent ability to prioritize work and meet deadlines
  


• Ability to work in a cross-functional team environment – contributing creative ideas and positive energy to the group
  


• Builds and improves effective internal systems and processes that align with organizational priorities
  


• Strong interpersonal, influencing and written/verbal communication skills
  


• Ability to create support and buy in across a wide range of stakeholders; create a strong network of relationships across the organization
  


• Proven track record of excellent project management, bringing the ability to quickly put structure in place to manage work in a dynamic and fast paced environment

REQUIREMENTS:

• Bachelor’s degree required, MBA preferred
  


• At least 3+ years in a commercial operations or project management
  


• At least 7+ years of experience in pharmaceuticals or bio pharmaceuticals, including some combination of marketing, sales, new product launch, market access and new product planning and/or commercial operations