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We are seeking a creative, self-starting, and entrepreneurial Associate Director of Alliance Management Operations to be a driving force behind Kailera’s optimization of corporate alliances. You will own the process for implementing and managing alliance management playbooks, systems, and tools to collect, input, track, and optimize the wealth of alliance management information across R&D, CMC, and G&A functions from both our company and our alliance partner(s). The reports and outputs will directly influence alliance management strategy, drive seamless partnership execution, and inform our strategic decisions across the organization. This key role reports to the Senior Director of Alliance Management. This is a team where you can thrive while feeling respected, bringing your ideas and collaborative personality to produce high-quality results for the alliance management team and overall business.
Job Responsibility:
Implement our Alliance Management Operations systems, playbooks, and reporting, while operationalizing department strategy
Collaborate effectively with Kailera functional leaders, Partner’s alliance management team, and SaaS vendor to collect, input, and optimize the information necessary to build and manage comprehensive alliance management dashboards for the functional leaders and executive leadership team
Inform the organization of enterprise risks, opportunities, and inflection points related to alliance management
Champion alliance management best practices across the organization to ensure an insight-driven way of working and decision making
Operationalizing alliance governance and working group meetings, including meeting scheduling, agenda, and slides preparation with the alliance partner, meeting minutes, and tracking actions, decisions, issues
Alliance management records management and other general alliance management operational tasks
Requirements:
3+ years of experience in alliance management or partnership operations, business development operations, R&D or Commercial operations, or top-tier consulting within the USA biopharma or biotech industry
8+ years of overall progressive experience in the life sciences industry or other relevant experience
A creative operations leader who has a sharp sense for data collection, tracking, and reporting. Excels at story telling using information, personal knowledge, and data. Ability to create dashboards and reports for functional and executive leadership
The ability to work independently and successfully in a matrix environment, prioritize and manage multiple projects and tasks simultaneously, and thrive in a dynamic environment
Demonstrated expertise having integrated organizational or cross-functional information into systems and tools to input, track, manage, report, and optimize the operations of a program, department, or company
Expert-level proficiency in analytical skills, information technology, and project management, as well as in Microsoft Powerpoint and Sharepoint
Demonstrated quality of experience leveraging AI to drive business operations
Knowledge of the drug development process, particularly late-stage development, to enable meaningful dialogue with internal stakeholders and external partners
Comfortability and understanding of contractual terminology related to legal, business development, and/or licensing
Highly motivated, entrepreneurial individual, with an ability and willingness to navigate between high-level alliance/program strategy and day-to-day execution within a team-oriented culture
A dynamic self-starter who takes initiative, works independently, and is motivated to achieve goals without needing constant supervision or direction
High integrity, strong collaboration and teamwork, and an excellence that aligns with Kailera’s corporate values, and able to maintain the confidential nature of the alliance management work
Bachelor’s degree in a Science, Technology, Business, or related field
Nice to have:
Alliance management certifications, such as CA-AM, or project management certifications, such as PMP, are preferred
Experience working with Power BI a plus
Having worked closely with China or Asia Pacific colleagues is a plus