Project/ Program Manager

Job description

📑 Job description

We are hiring a Program/Project Manager to coordinate and drive Nutropy’s cross-functional R&D programs.

You will ensure effective planning, execution, and delivery of strategic technical projects by aligning teams, timelines, budgets, and deliverables with company goals.

Your role will involve working closely with team members and company leadership to maintain structure, momentum, and clarity in our development roadmap.

You will play a key role in scaling our operations and accelerating our innovation pipeline.

At Nutropy, your job will consist in the following:

Project & Program Management: 

– Work directly with the CSO to lead planning and execution of R&D and innovation programs across multiple functions (molecular biology, fermentation, dsp, food & protein science, analytics, etc.)

– Define project scopes, timelines, milestones, resources, and deliverables in collaboration with technical leads and executive team

– Manage project budgets and timelines; track progress through dashboards and project management tools

– Identify and mitigate project risks; adjust plans to remain on track

– Facilitate team meetings, ensuring transparency, ownership, and accountability

– Create and maintain documentation

Cross-functional Coordination: 

– Act as a central point of contact between all teams

– Ensure project alignment with Nutropy’s objectives and priorities

– Help translate high-level strategic objectives into coordinated operational execution

– Support resource allocation and anticipate skill or capacity gaps

Performance & Process Optimization: 

– Implement and improve processes and tools for project planning and follow-up

– Monitor and report on project KPIs and OKRs, escalating critical issues when needed

– Contribute to continuous improvement in cross-team communication, workflows, and execution discipline

Strategic Support: 

– Assist in fundraising materials and grant applications when project coordination is involved

– Participate in partner and stakeholder discussions requiring clear project timelines or deliverable overviews

– Undertake any other activies as needed by the business

🛠️ Skills we are looking for

Education & experience:

– Master’s degree or equivalent in science, engineering or business

– 3+ years of experience in program or project management in biotech, deep tech, or scientific environments, streamlining effective processes to enable team execution of OKRs

– Proven track record managing cross-functional teams in a complex, fast-moving organization

– Experience with innovation projects involving biology, bioprocess, or food science is a strong plus

– Proficiency with project management tools (Notion, Click Up, etc.)

– Experience supporting team growth in regards to hard and soft skills and professional satisfaction and progression

– Experience in the food industry, ingredient or dairy industry, with food grade constraints is a plus

– Strong written and verbal communication in English; French is a plus

Profile:

– Motivation to work in a challenging start-up environment

– Strong planning and organizational skills, with a detail- and deadline-oriented mindset

– Independant and proactive, acting as a problem-solver, creative force to suggest solutions

– Precise and capable of prioritising tasks

– Excellent interpersonal and facilitation abilities with strong communication skills

– Able to work across technical and non-technical teams

– Thrive in a startup environment; adaptable and hands-on

– Self-driven, proactive, and resourceful

– Commitment to Nutropy’s mission and values, with an interest for the alternative proteins domain

– Strong commitment, positive, optimistic, and energetic attitude

– High sense of confidentiality

💪 What we offer

When you come to work at Nutropy, your day-to-day is directly responsible for improving the quality of our products.

Your role will be pivotal in bringing animal-free dairy to consumers worldwide, positively impacting our food system and planet.

In return, here is what we can offer you:

🗯️ Interviewing process

– We will organize 3-4 interview rounds with the CSO and other team members including reference checks.

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As an equal opportunity employer, Nutropy welcomes applications from all suitably qualified candidates, irrespective of sex, gender, sexual orientation, national, ethnic or social origin, disability, religion or belief.

Do not hesitate to apply!

We will help you to obtain a visa if it is required.

Under its equal opportunities policy, Nutropy is aiming to achieve gender parity in staff employed at all levels in the Organisation.

At the time of appointment, preference between suitable candidates shall be given to the candidate of the gender which is under-represented in the relevant grades within the category to which the vacancy belongs.

During the different stages of the recruitment procedure, specific measures shall be taken to facilitate access for candidates with disabilities.

🧀 A few words about us !

Nutropy develops the next generation of dairy products.

Nutropy is a Venture-Backed French company that develops an animal-free plug & play milk replacement for large scale dairy applications through our precision fermentation technology.

We produce milk proteins and fatty acids identical to those produced by cows to enable the production of cheeses that taste as good as conventional cheese but are more sustainable, healthier and better for the animals.

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