Head of Portfolio Strategy

What if… you could join an organization that creates, resources, and builds life sciences companies that invent breakthrough technologies in order to transform health care and sustainability?

Montai Health is a privately held, early-stage biotechnology company developing a platform for understanding and leveraging complex molecular interactions within organisms to solve global challenges in human health and sustainability. The company leverages a multidisciplinary approach that integrates tools ranging from machine learning and big data to multi-omics and high-throughput screening.

At Montai, we nurture a bold, spirited and leading-edge culture dedicated to strengthening human health:

• We are one team with omnidirectional trust, empowered and accountable.
• We are strong as individuals but stronger as a team and we are committed to excellence.
• We have a sense of urgency and persistence and we are crazily confident that we can make a difference.
• We need to be comfortable with the uncomfortable and be rigorous and we recognize that failure is data.
• We care for diversity in people, thought, personality, opinions, background and distinctiveness.
• We have a sense of humor to help us manage through our strategic noise.

Position Summary:

Working as a right hand to the CEO, you will be immersed in strategic and operational analysis and take a lead role in driving large projects within the business, giving you deep insight and access to the portfolio strategy and direction. You will be responsible for a broad range of efforts, including initiating and managing special projects involving the CEO and closely interfacing with other key stakeholders across Montai Health and the broader enterprise. You will use targeted analyses to support decision-making and set objectives.

The candidate will work closely with the senior leadership team to implement initiatives. The successful candidate will work with cross-functional teams to drive initiatives, identify bottlenecks, and articulate trade-offs. The successful candidate will also be responsible for driving some parts of the initiative in discussion with the cross-functional team.

Specific responsibilities

• At the direction of the CEO or in proactive anticipation of need, collaborate with the internal team and other key stakeholders as necessary to build consensus on important matters and assist with proposal development for deliberation or decision. Align leadership team on important matters in preparation for discussion, deliberation, or decision.
• Participate in cross-functional teams to brainstorm progress, co-develop a path forward, identify bottlenecks and trade-offs
• Assist with CEO communications and documents/deliverables required to communicate activities with internal and external parties.
• Create a set of dashboards that help articulate the status of key initiatives, trade-offs, and implications to Montai Health
• Collaborate with other functional areas on deliverables. Participate in meetings and be responsible for tracking outcomes and deliverables. Work closely with the CEO to identify and prepare for critical thought leadership engagements

Background

• Ph.D. in Sciences or Engineering
• 3-6+ years of experience working in or serving the life sciences industry required, which may include management/strategy consulting or private equity experience
• Excellent communication skills and strong ability to influence stakeholders
• Willingness to work hard and take direction, ownership, and accountability for work—but also creatively solve problems
• Ability to both influence key stakeholders as well as drive for decisions and outcomes when necessary
• Able to thrive in a highly dynamic, fast-paced, continuously changing environment with minimal oversight/direction

Location: Cambridge, MA

More About Flagship Pioneering

Flagship Pioneering has conceived of and created companies such as Moderna Therapeutics (NASDAQ: MRNA), Editas Medicine (NASDAQ: EDIT), Omega Therapeutics (NASDAQ: OMGA), Seres Therapeutics (NASDAQ: MCRB), and Indigo Agriculture. Since its launch in 2000, Flagship has applied its unique hypothesis-driven innovation process to originate and foster more than 100 scientific ventures. In 2021, Flagship Pioneering was ranked 12th globally on Fortune’s “Change the World” list, an annual ranking of companies that have made a positive social and environmental impact through activities that are part of their core business strategies.