[Hiring] Global Change Facilitator @BioPhorum

Role Description

Help shape the future of advanced therapies and accelerate progress across the life sciences industry.

This is an opportunity to combine your scientific understanding, project management expertise and people skills to help shape industry-wide progress in an exciting and rapidly evolving area of medicine.

As Global Change Facilitator, you will play a central role in this collaboration. You will:

• Lead and facilitate workstreams:
  • Guide a portfolio of collaborative initiatives, helping members define priorities, agree objectives and deliver outcomes aligned with BioPhorum's strategy and governance.
• Bring experts together:
  • Create engaging, inclusive meetings that encourage open discussion, draw out expertise and build strong working relationships across member organisations.
• Drive projects forward:
  • Apply your project management skills to establish clear deliverables, manage timelines, monitor progress and keep workstreams focused on achieving their objectives.
• Turn complexity into clarity:
  • Bring together complex scientific, technical and regulatory information and translate it into clear, accessible outputs that support industry-wide understanding and change.
• Deliver meaningful outputs:
  • Work with members to develop publications, industry guidance, proof of concepts, business cases, benchmarking tools and conference presentations that demonstrate real value.
• Create impactful events:
  • Collaborate with Phorum colleagues and the events team to plan and facilitate engaging virtual and in-person meetings, workshops and industry events.
• Build member engagement:
  • Monitor participation, identify emerging challenges and work with colleagues to maintain momentum, strengthen relationships and support member satisfaction.
• Champion collaboration and continuous improvement:
  • Share member insights, identify opportunities to demonstrate the value of BioPhorum's work and contribute to the ongoing development of our collaborative approach.

Qualifications

• A degree in a relevant scientific discipline, or an equivalent scientific education and background that enables you to engage confidently with complex life sciences topics.
• Ideally, experience within the advanced therapies industry, such as cell or gene therapy, RNA therapeutics, ATMP development, manufacturing, testing or related regulatory environments.
• Experience managing projects, programmes or change initiatives, ideally within life sciences, pharmaceuticals, biotechnology, CDMOs or related consulting environments.
• Strong stakeholder management skills, with the ability to influence, build trust, adapt your communication style and bring diverse groups of people on a journey.
• A collaborative mindset and a genuine enjoyment of facilitating constructive discussions, drawing out information and helping groups reach decisions.
• The ability to synthesise complex information and communicate it clearly to different audiences.
• Excellent organisation and planning skills, with the ability to manage multiple workstreams, competing priorities and agreed deadlines.
• Sound judgement, initiative and a bias towards action, combined with the flexibility to adapt as priorities and discussions evolve.
• A continuous improvement mindset and the ability to work effectively with colleagues and stakeholders in a remote, fast-paced and growing organisation.

Requirements

• A scientific education or background is essential for this role.
• Given the technical complexity of advanced therapies, you will need a solid understanding of the scientific environment to engage credibly with subject matter experts and grasp the challenges being discussed.
• You do not need to be the technical expert in every discussion. However, you should have the scientific grounding, curiosity and confidence to understand complex topics, ask insightful questions and help experts move towards a shared outcome.

Benefits

• Work alongside leading experts and organisations across the global biopharmaceutical sector.
• Help develop shared approaches to the challenges shaping advanced therapies.
• Home-based position with occasional travel required.
• Commit to at least two UK trips and two international trips each year to support our annual events programme.