Strive to Bring a Profound Difference to our Patients

At Avidity Biosciences, we are passionate about the impact of every employee in realizing our vision of improving people’s lives by delivering a new class of RNA therapeutics. Avidity is revolutionizing the field of RNA with its proprietary AOCs, which are designed to combine the specificity of monoclonal antibodies with the precision of oligonucleotide therapies to address targets and diseases previously unreachable with existing RNA therapies. If you are a committed, solution-oriented thinker, join us in making a difference and become part of our growing culture that is integrated, collaborative, agile and focused on the needs of patients. 

Avidity Biosciences, Inc.'s mission is to profoundly improve people's lives by delivering a new class of RNA therapeutics - Antibody Oligonucleotide Conjugates (AOCs™). Utilizing its proprietary AOC platform, Avidity demonstrated the first-ever successful targeted delivery of RNA into muscle and is leading the field with clinical development programs for three rare muscle diseases: myotonic dystrophy type 1 (DM1), Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) and facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy (FSHD). Avidity is broadening the reach of AOCs with its advancing and expanding pipeline, including programs in cardiology and immunology through internal discovery efforts and key partnerships. Avidity is headquartered in San Diego, CA. For more information about our AOC platform, clinical development pipeline, and people, please visit www.aviditybiosciences.com and engage with us on LinkedIn and Twitter.

The Opportunity

The Manager IT business partner will serve as a technology partner to Avidity’s Finance teams and supporting functions. Avidity is an exciting growth organization where a robust digital strategy and execution are key to the success of the R&D pipeline and ongoing excellence of operations. The role will build out the processes and solutions in partnership with the business functions to support the finance group leveraging internal solutions (e.g., Microsoft Dynamics 365, etc.) and external relationships, to secure Avidity’s ownership of critical data assets. 

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• A key IT team member, representing Finance in Avidity’s broader Digital Roadmap.
• Collaborate with the business partners to bring technology solutions to bear on their business challenges and to support their strategic objectives.
• Communicate with internal stakeholders and the extended user community to drive day-to-day initiatives, research and recommend strategic directions and solutions.
• Participate in and lead business process discovery meetings with internal users to assess technology needs.
• Work with internal stakeholders to understand their business requirements and conduct a gap analysis.
• Applies knowledge and trends of the biotech/pharmaceutical industry while embedding IT best practices such as architecture, security, and integrations.
• Ensure ERP stakeholders' satisfaction with the application deployment across the organization.
• Facilitate the implementation and support of Microsoft Dynamics 365 for Finance and Operations and Inventory Management.
• Understands SOX controls and support Finance and IT with general controls for publicly traded companies
• Direct supervision of consultants, partners, and vendors.
• Perform other duties as required

Qualifications

To perform this role successfully, an incumbent must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The preferred requirements listed below are representative of the skills, knowledge, and/or abilities required.  Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Preferred Education and/or Experience

• Bachelor’s degree required, Master’s in Information Technology or Business a plus.
• Prior experience working in the Life Sciences industry required. 5+ year progressive IT experience with 3+ years supporting Finance.
• Prior experience serving in a business relationship capacity or consultancy to Finance functions with a proven track record of delivering technical solutions.
• Project management/delivery experience highly preferred.
• Professional demeanor, excellent oral, and written communication skills to all levels of the organization.
• Ability to multi-task and shift priorities rapidly to meet tight deadlines.
• Detail oriented and well organized and self-motivated.
• Prior experience with ERP implementations.

Physical Requirements/Demands

• Remaining in a stationary position, often standing or sitting for prolonged periods.
• Moving about to accomplish tasks or moving from one station to another, or from one worksite to another.
• Adjusting or moving objects up to 10, 25, 50 pounds.
• Communicating with others to exchange information.
• Repeating motions that may include the wrists, hands and/or legs.
• Repeating motions of fingers (typing and/or writing).
• Operating machinery or equipment. [HPLC, pill press, pipettes, copiers, etc.]
• Assessing the accuracy, neatness and thoroughness of the work assigned.
• Ability to use a computer.

Environmental Conditions

• Low temperatures.
• High temperatures.
• Noisy environments.
• No adverse environmental conditions expected.
• Exposure to general laboratory environment conditions.
• Exposure to general office environment conditions.

What We will Provide to You:

• The base salary range for this role is $147,300 - $162,800. The final compensation will be commensurate with such factors as relevant experience, skillset, internal equity and market factors.
• Avidity offers competitive compensation and benefits which includes the opportunity for annual and spot bonuses, stock options and RSUs, as well as a 401(k) with an employer match. In addition, the comprehensive wellness program includes coverage for medical, dental, vision, and LTD, and four weeks of time off.
• A commitment to learning and development which includes a variety of programming internally developed by and for Avidity employees, opportunities for job-specific training offered by industry, and an education reimbursement program.

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