Project Manager Preclinical Product Development

Responsibilities

• You will drive planning, tracking and alignment across preclinical product development (PPD) projects, while also shaping and maintaining clear and efficient ways of working within the PPD team.
• Project Planning & Cross-functional Coordination Build and maintain integrated project timelines across PPD projects, ensuring deliverables, dependencies, and critical path activities are clearly defined.
• Actively follow up on deliverables and timelines, ensuring teams stay aligned and progress is made as planned.
• Facilitate alignment between functions (CMC, BA, PharmTox, Discovery) on timelines, priorities, and dependencies.
• Ensure clear ownership of deliverables and clarify roles and responsibilities where needed.
• Maintain a clear overview of project status, including key milestones, risks, and next steps.
• Ensure relevant information is shared in time and reaches the right stakeholders to support decision-making.
• Meeting leadership & communication Organize and facilitate cross-functional project meetings (e.g., PPD+, project team meetings), including: Preparing agendas and template slide decks
• Capturing decisions and action items
• Ensure clear documentation and follow-up, including action tracking and decision logs.
• Provide structured and concise project updates (status, risks, decisions) to stakeholders.
• Planning, tracking & process simplification Set up and maintain project tracking tools (timelines, milestone trackers, readiness checklists).
• Track progress vs. plan and proactively identify delays or gaps.
• Ensure projects are "planning-ready" and "decision-ready" at key milestones.
• Improve and simplify existing processes, trackers, and templates to reduce complexity and administrative burden.
• Standardize practical ways of working across PPD (meeting structure, tracking, documentation).
• Portfolio oversight & reporting Maintain and update portfolio dashboards, ensuring accurate and consistent project data across PPD.
• Provide clear portfolio-level visibility on timelines, risks, and milestone readiness.
• Support preparation of governance meetings (PPD+, SMC) by structuring project updates and ensuring data quality.
• Knowledge Management & team enablement Ensure decisions, assumptions, timelines, and key learnings are clearly documented and accessible.
• Maintain and improve PPD templates, trackers, and knowledge repositories.
• Act as a go-to person within PPD for questions on: Project status
• Timelines and tracking
• Processes and ways of working
• Help team members navigate the organization, connecting the right people and ensuring questions are addressed efficiently.
• Act as a central information hub, ensuring continuity and reducing knowledge loss across projects.
• Profile
• PhD in life sciences or related field, with 1-3 years of experience in project management in an industry context.
• A can‑do mindset: anticipates needs, brings structure, and acts with urgency while keeping things simple.
• Displays a genuine scientific curiosity and interest to grasp the high-level biology of ongoing projects, enabling you to identify synergies and foster connections across initiatives.
• Thrives in an empowered, lean environment with clear ownership and efficient decision‑making.
• Proactive mindset with a focus on problem-solving and continuous improvement.
• Strong organizational, communication and stakeholder management skills; confident facilitating cross‑functional teams. A collaborative attitude and willingness to be the go-to person for operational guidance and documentation.
• Fluent in English, our working language.
• Offer
• A full time position in a s

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Additional Information

Join us as we transform immunology and deliver medicines that help autoimmune patients get their lives back. argenx is preparing for multi-dimensional expansion to reach more patients through a rich pipeline of differentiated assets, led by VYVGART, our first-in-class neonatal Fc receptor blocker approved for the treatment of gMG, and with the potential to treat patients across dozens of severe autoimmune diseases. We are building a new kind of biotech company, one that maintains its roots as a science-based start-up and pushes our commitment to innovate across all corners of our business. We strive to inspire and grow our company, our partnerships, our science, and our people, because when we do, we deliver more for patients. To coordinate and streamline managerial activities within the organization, we are currently looking for a Project Manager to join our dynamic Discovery organization in Gent/Zwijnaarde. This position is an ideal fit for someone with a PhD and early (1-3 years) experience in project management within an industry setting-especially those who thrive outside rigid matrix structures and prefer a hands-on, pragmatic approach to driving progress. This position requires an on-site presence in the office/labs in Zwijnaarde (Ghent, Belgium) of at least 4 days/week. In addition to your CV, we would like to receive a short and clear motivation for this role.

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