Discovery Portfolio Manager

• Continuously help to prioritise programs across AOCs, drug delivery strategies, and platform innovations 
• Help define what work is best performed internally vs externally
• Manage and coordinate CRO operational activities across the discovery portfolio in collaboration with discovery program leads and matrix teams
• Work with scientific preclinical project leaders to ensure externally generated data is:
  • high quality
  • timely
  • aligned with program decision needs
• Prevent “black box” outsourcing by maintaining scientific and operational visibility

• Establish lightweight systems for:
  • portfolio tracking
  • experiment-to-decision alignment
• cross-program visibility
• Facilitate discovery project teams in best practices around:
  • planning experiments and storing data
  • tracking project progress against agreed deliverables
  • making effective data-driven decisions
• Ensure consistency in how data is generated, evaluated, and used across programs

• Ensure platform capabilities (e.g. conjugation chemistry, targeting strategies, payload optimisation) are translated into repeatable, scalable programs
• Help define what is platform vs asset-specific work

• Support Scientific and corporate leadership with portfolio reviews and strategic decisions
• Prepare materials for board and investor updates
• Bring structure to ambiguous problems and drive alignment across teams

• PhD (preferred) in molecular biology, chemistry, or related field
• PMP qualification ideal
• 5–10+ years in biotech/pharma, with exposure to:
  • antibody therapeutics, oligonucleotides, or conjugates
  • early discovery and preclinical development
• Managing complex R&D programs in fast-paced environments
• Working across internal teams and external partners/CROs
• Experience with multi-disciplinary or platform-based programs
• Comfortable operating in high ambiguity, low structure environments

Aerska is a values-driven organisation, guided by the belief that “we live in each other’s shelter”, reflecting our deep sense of interdependence and collaboration. Every member of the team is expected to embody our shared values:

• Walk on Air:Pursue bold ideas with ambition to solve meaningful problems that create real impact
• Time is Neurons:Every moment counts for patients – act with urgency and care, making data-driven decisions without compromise. 
• Win or Learn:Embrace curiosity, adapt quickly and continuously improve
• We Before Me:Seek diverse perspectives, collaborate with humility,opennessand respect, and prioritisecollective success above individual advancement.