Certara · 4 days ago
Chief of Staff to the CEO
United States
Full-time
Remote
Director/Executive
10+ years expCertara accelerates the potential of bringing medicines to market and to patients using biosimulation software, technology, and services. The Chief of Staff is a senior execution leader who partners closely with the CEO to ensure enterprise priorities move forward with clarity, discipline, and momentum, while coordinating cross-functional efforts and proactively identifying and resolving issues.
BiotechnologyHealth CarePharmaceuticalSoftware
Responsibilities
Drive execution and follow-through on CEO-level priorities, decisions, and commitments
Translate direction into clear actions, owners, timelines, and success measures
Build and run a consistent operating cadence for executive-level work
Ensure meetings are well-prepared and result in clear decisions and documentation of actions and next steps
Track progress and hold owners accountable for delivery
Enable efficient decision-making, and reliable documentation of actions and next steps
Coordinate complex initiatives across business units, R&D, commercial, finance, and operations
Drive alignment and momentum across complex, multi-functional activities
Manage interdependencies and alignment across leadership and senior stakeholders
Reinforce clarity of ownership without formal authority
Act as a connective leader across functions
Apply strategic thinking to frame problems and assess implications
Evaluate trade-offs using financial, operational, and organizational considerations
Partner with Finance, BU Presidents and Commercial to track performance against goals and budgets
Work across functions to develop frameworks for consistent reporting of KPI’s and other key metrics and data to drive decisions
Proactively identify risks, bottlenecks, misalignments and opportunities
Resolve issues where possible and selectively escalating with clear context and recommended options as needed
Coordinate inputs for key activities including Board of Director and Committee meetings, investor meetings, industry conferences and miscellaneous customer interactions
Develop/update annual communications plans for the organization
Support multiple enterprise-wide internal communications activities including Town Halls, CEO Communications, internal and external presentations and speeches
Enable and orchestrate cascade and reinforcement of messages via the ELT, Extended LT, and other stakeholders
Qualification
Required
10+ years of experience in operations, strategy, consulting, finance, or general management
Experience operating at a Senior Director/VP level in a global, matrixed organization
Demonstrated ability to drive execution across senior stakeholders without formal authority
Strong strategic thinking and financial acumen, with comfort evaluating trade-offs
Deep understanding of the market in which Certara operates and the healthcare landscape and environment in general
Previous experience working in the healthcare and/or life sciences space
Preferred
MBA or other advanced degree preferred
Company
Certara
Certara is a pharmaceutical company that accelerates medicines with biosimulation software and technology.
1001-5000 employees
H1B Sponsorship
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2025 (7)
2024 (10)
2023 (3)
2022 (10)
2021 (5)
2020 (3)
Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
$844.17MKey Investors
Arsenal Capital PartnersMubadala
2025-03-28Post Ipo Equity· $5.67M
2023-08-29Grant
2022-11-07Post Ipo Secondary· $449M
Leadership Team
Daniel D. Corcoran
Senior Vice President and General Counsel
Rona Anhalt
Chief Human Resources Officer
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