Operations Management Executive Director - Life Sciences Sector (Boston)

02215 Boston, Massachusetts CBRE

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Operations Management Executive Director - Life Sciences Sector

Job ID

232208

Posted

06-Aug-2025

Service line

GWS Segment

Role type

Full-time

Areas of Interest

Executive Management, Facilities Management

Location(s)

Boston - Massachusetts - United States of America, Charlotte - North Carolina - United States of America, Chicago - Illinois - United States of America, Hartford - Connecticut - United States of America, Miami - Florida - United States of America, New York City - New York - United States of America, Philadelphia - Pennsylvania - United States of America, Providence - Rhode Island - United States of America, Richmond - Virginia - United States of America, Washington, D.C. - District of Columbia - United States of America

Position is equivalent to a Sector Director

Job Summary:

The Operations Management Executive Director (OMED) is a critical executive leadership role responsible for the overall success of a defined global sector portfolio within the organization. This role requires a highly visible and engaged leader with full ownership of sector performance, including financial results, client satisfaction, and talent development. The OMED drives strategy, fosters durable client partnerships, and ensures the delivery of exceptional service, ultimately contributing to significant growth and profitability across the portfolio. This role demands a strategic thinker, a strong communicator, and a proven leader with the ability to build and maintain high-performing teams.

Responsibilities:

Client Success & Relationship Management:

  • Serve as the senior owner for client success, consistently meeting, managing, and exceeding all client expectations.

  • Maintain a high and measurable degree of client satisfaction and engagement, striving for top promoter scores across the portfolio. Develop and implement improvement plans in collaboration with Alliance Directors.

  • Build and maintain strong relationships with key senior clients, driving strategy and ensuring long-term partnership success.

  • Articulate a detailed understanding of client contract scope, commercial opportunities, and areas of growth.

Business & Portfolio Growth:

  • Drive organic growth across all service lines and secure new client acquisitions.

  • Lead the development, implementation, and monitoring of short and long-range business plans and budgets to achieve scorecard, revenue, and EBITDA targets, including stretch financial goals.

  • Bring all CBRE expertise and service lines to the client, creating a unified and valuable service offering.

  • Identify and pursue opportunities for portfolio expansion and the introduction of new service lines and solutions, enabling both sector and client growth.

  • Drive year-over-year growth using positive leverage.

Operational Excellence & Risk Management:

  • Ensure all CBRE and client requirements are met, from operational excellence and technical compliance to service delivery and innovation.

  • Optimize the cost of services across the entire portfolio, creating value for both clients and CBRE.

  • Manage and mitigate commercial and contractual risks effectively.

  • Partner and engage with Platform and other CBRE global practice areas to ensure operational excellence and account success.

Financial Performance:

  • Demonstrate financial fluency and the ability to impact positive financial performance.

  • Drive financial performance and achieve scorecard targets, delivering on financial commitments.

Talent Management & Leadership:

  • Lead and mentor Alliance Directors, driving accountability for service delivery, scorecard achievement, client experience, employee engagement, and compliance.

  • Develop and nurture a high-performance team across all facets of the portfolio.

  • Lead talent enablement for teams, including the selection, development, and retention of Alliance Director talent and capabilities.

  • Facilitate and deploy a key leadership succession plan, ensuring a robust talent pipeline.

  • Enable strategic talent development, emphasizing DE&I candidates for development and promotion.

  • Build and maintain a robust internal and external talent network to secure a strong bench.

  • Drive high employee engagement and foster a positive and inclusive work environment.

Compliance & Safety:

  • Ensure exacting safety and compliance performance across the portfolio.

  • Embrace the organization's safety agenda, prioritizing the safety of all account employees.

Strategic Alignment & Collaboration:

  • Act as an advanced integrator of products, services, solutions, client alignment, and talent across the organization.

  • Operate as a truly global leader, managing and coordinating all service lines across all geographies.

  • Build and maintain strong relationships with local CBRE leadership teams in key markets within the Sector MD's geographic areas of responsibility.

  • Actively build successful network relationships with key industry and trade associations, vendors, and professional organizations to enhance the organization's positioning.

  • Engage with Sector Presidents, Delivery Excellence teams, Platform leaders, and global practice leaders to leverage expertise for operational excellence.

Qualifications

Experience:

  • Proven experience in a senior leadership role within the commercial real estate or related industry.

  • Demonstrated experience in managing large, complex portfolios and driving significant financial results.

  • Extensive experience in client relationship management, building and maintaining strong relationships with key clients.

  • A track record of successfully managing and developing high-performing teams.

  • Experience with new account startups and major transformation/growth initiatives.

Skills:

  • Financial Acumen: Strong understanding of financial statements, budgeting, and forecasting. Ability to analyze financial data and make data-driven decisions.

  • Strategic Thinking: Ability to develop and implement strategic plans to achieve business goals.

Applicants must be currently authorized to work in the United States without the need for visa sponsorship now or in the future

CBRE carefully considers multiple factors to determine compensation, including a candidates education, training, and experience. The minimum salary for the Ops Management Exec Director position is $290,000 annually and the maximum salary for the Ops Management Exec Director position is $315,000 annually. The compensation offered to a successful candidate will depend on their skills, qualifications, and experience. Successful candidates will also be eligible for a discretionary bonus based on CBREs applicable benefit program. This role will provide the following benefits: 401(K), Dental insurance, Health insurance, Life insurance, and Vision insurance.

Equal Employment Opportunity: CBRE has a long-standing commitment to providing equal employment opportunity to all qualified applicants regardless of race, color, religion, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, pregnancy, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, veteran status, political belief, or any other basis protected by applicable law.

Candidate Accommodations: CBRE values the differences of all current and prospective employees and recognizes how every employee contributes to our companys success. CBRE provides reasonable accommodations in job application procedures for individuals with disabilities. If you require assistance due to a disability in the application or recruitment process, please submit a request via email at or via telephone at +1 (U.S.) and +1 (Canada).

CBRE GWS

CBRE Global Workplace Solutions (GWS) works with clients to make real estate a meaningful contributor to organizational productivity and performance. Our account management model is at the heart of our client-centric approach to delivering integrated real estate solutions. Each client is entrusted with a dedicated leader and is supported by regional and global resources, leveraging the industry's most robust platform. CBRE GWS delivers consistent, measurably superior outcomes for our clients at every stage of the lifecycle, and across industries and geographies.

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CBRE, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer (Women/Minorities/Persons with Disabilities/US Veterans)

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Senior/Executive Director, Program Management (EU/US) (Boston)

02109 Boston, Massachusetts Prilenia

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About Prilenia

Prilenia, a private biopharmaceutical company with a highly committed and talented global team, is seeking a Senior/Executive Director, Program Management located in Europe, Israel or the United States, east coast location is strongly preferred.

Being part of Prilenia is being a part of a simple but urgent mission the development of transformative medicines for people affected by devastating neurodegenerative diseases. Driven by an unwavering commitment to scientific excellence, Prilenia is developing pridopidine, a first-in-class potentially neuroprotective sigma-1 receptor (S1R) agonist, which, if approved by the EMA later this year, could be the first approved drug to impact clinical disease progression and not just manage symptoms.

Prilenia holds Orphan Drug designation for pridopidine in HD and ALS in the U.S. and EU. In addition, pridopidine has received Fast Track designation by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for the treatment of HD. The European Medicines Agency (EMA) has accepted for review Prilenias European Marketing Authorisation Application (MAA) seeking regulatory approval of pridopidine for the treatment of HD. This is the first submission seeking approval for a potential treatment that can impact clinical progression in HD. For ALS, Prilenia also plans to initiate a pivotal Phase 3 trial to evaluate pridopidine.

To learn more about our story and company culture, visit us at

We seek an experienced Program Management lead to join our team as Senior/ Executive Director Program Management . This role will lead integrated program management for Prilenia across the various development programs and indications, providing end-to-end oversight of program strategy and management.It is a strategic and operational role that would serve as partner to the leadership team in driving the project plans, priorities and coordinated execution. This role will initially report to the Companys COO.

The ideal candidate will have significant prior experience in driving program management, including working with growing, late-stage biotech companies; a collaborative, can do mindset and ability to drive decision making in fast-paced environment.

*The position's level will be determined according to the candidate's experience.


Roles and Responsibilities:
  • Develop and implement the overall program management strategy aligned with company objectives.
  • Build and maintain integrated programplans for all programs. Work closely with the leadership team and program teams to define, track and maintain integrated program workstreams.
  • Oversee the planning, execution, and tracking of multiple cross-functional programs through clinical development and commercialization.
  • Drive timelines and monitor resources to keep programs on schedule and budget. Proactively identify and resolve challenges within the program teams. This includes developing and maintaining integrated documentation, such as Gantt charts, decision logs, and risk registries
  • Conduct continuous review and analysis of critical path activities. Communicate any perceived risks to budget or timeline to management in a timely manner.
  • Provide operational expertise to the program team, continuously improving project standards, processes, metrics, and practices in order to deliver projects and programs according to plan and within budget.
  • Build and maintain tools to monitor and communicate program progress to the program team and all levels of the organization, including developing presentations for leadership.
  • Serve as PMO of program teams and of the Development Management Team, working with program leads and leadership team to facilitate cross-functional program meetings (including distribute agendas, maintain meeting minutes, and drive follow up toward completion of action items).
  • Ensure effective, proactive and open communications, to achieve transparency and clarity of program goals, progress and issues. Establish key metrics and monitor performance, through dashboards and reports to enable timely information and analyses for senior leaders.
  • Facilitate discussion and productive conflict around program strategy, deliverables, and timelines to enable commitment and alignment.
Qualifications
  • 15+ years of in-depth pharmaceutical industry experience and drug development in a program management role.
  • BA/BS degree with an advanced degree preferred. MSc or advanced scientific degree a plus. PMP certification is a plus
  • Prior experience leading and managing global, cross-functional late-stage clinical development programs (preferred: including leading to regulatory approvals)
  • Experience in small/growing biotech companies is a must.
Skills:
  • Proven ability to communicate clearly and present key information objectively to all levels of the organization including executive management.
  • Demonstrated ability to positively influence outcomes, key project decisions, and strategic problem-solving.
  • Proactive risk management with ability to propose solutions and deliver appropriate mitigation plan.
  • Ability to communicate (written and verbal) with impact to provide appropriate context, articulate views, drive clarity, and address barriers to progress program development.
  • Ability to drive decision-making within a cross-functional and cross-cultural, global team structure.
  • Excellent organizational skills and attention to detail, while keeping the strategic view

Location/Time Zones:

This is a full-time,remote position in either the US, Europe or Israel. This role will require occasional in-person/face-to-face meetings.Flexible schedule with interactions across North America, Europe and Israel time zones. Occasional travel throughout North America and Europe is required.

Prilenia operates across the United States, Canada, Europe and Israel, is incorporated in the Netherlands and backed by leading life sciences investors. We are a highly virtual and flexible organization that is mostly remote and encourages team members to work in the ways that make them most effective, with a focus on our common goals and getting the job done.

Prilenia is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status. We are dedicated to fostering a diverse, inclusive, and welcoming workplace for all.

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