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Senior Administrative Business Partner

South San Francisco, CA 94080

Posted: 10/22/2025 Employment Type: Contract Industry: Administration Job Number: 12406 Pay Rate: $22.00 - $35.00 Remote Friendly: Onsite

Job Description

Our client is a leading biotechnology company that discovers, develops, manufactures and commercializes medicines to treat patients with serious or life-threatening medical conditions. They are among the world's leading biotech companies, with multiple products on the market and a promising development pipeline.

Role Overview:

The Senior Administrative Business Partner (Sr. ABP) provides diverse expertise and highly skilled administrative support to Senior/Executive Management and staff in Early Clinical Development by anticipating, determining, and fulfilling business partners needs in a proactive, well-organized and customer-oriented manner. Interactions can involve matters of utmost sensitivity; partnering with supervisor and other staff to identify efficiencies across work groups.

The Opportunity:
  • Proactively manage and maintain business partners complex calendars and meetings
  • Coordinate and manage complex travel needs and logistics
  • Plan large mid-level, internal meetings (e.g. department meeting, large team/committee)
  • Possess advanced knowledge of IT systems (ex: cSuite, virtual collaboration tools, etc.)
  • Manage relationships with internal and external stakeholders, often with a high level of confidentiality required
  • Create contracts/purchase orders, and process payment and expense reports.
  • Help coordinate candidate/interview process
  • Manage and plan team building events & workshops ( depending on role and level)
  • Independently lead the planning & execution of complex team offsites (involving multiple locations, days, activities, and/or travel needs)
  • Draft email communications on behalf of manager, team, department, leader, etc
  • Manage departmental gSites, Slack, websites, newsletters, etc. (collect content, distribute information, oversee maintenance)
  • Project Management support: Quality Compliance & Clinical Capabilities (QC3) projects & initiatives
  • Additional responsibilities assigned (based on business need)

Job Requirements

Who You Are:
  • Ability to multitask, prioritize and execute tasks independently. May assist in the coordination of work flow among team members
  • Collaborative, initiates and facilitates team development, ensures all relevant or useful information within the team is shared, works with different functions to achieve the best overall outcome
  • Ability to handle and exercise judgment and discretion concerning sensitive, confidential and proprietary information
  • Demonstrates accuracy and attention to detail of own and other's work, communicates and ensures standards for accuracy and detail within the team
  • Based on breadth of experience, skill and strategic context, makes decisions independently and with minimal need of external input/validation
  • Experience working with senior leaders/management
  • In depth knowledge of Microsoft Office (Power Point, Excel and Word), cSuite Tools (including gMail, gCal, gSheets, gSlides, Trello, Jamboard, gMeet, ZOOM) and able to provide instruction or training to others as needed
  • An average of 5-7 years related administrative, operations or project management experience (experience gained in pharmaceutical / biotechnology industry is preferred.)
  • BS/BA degree or equivalent industry experience

Meet Your Recruiter

Shannon Chamberlin
Professional Recruiter, Account Manager

As a recruiter at Compass, Shannon is passionate about helping people. She finds her own personal fulfillment in guiding candidates on their career journey. Her candidates always feel very supported and she is the ultimate cheerleader when you find the right fit at a great company.

When Shannon isn’t working, she enjoys time with her family and weekends full of sporting events for her boys. She enjoys travel, time with friends and helping children with learning disabilities.

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