Job Description

About This Role

Alliance Management contributes to establishing and maintaining relationships with Biogen’s partners. This role exposes the individual to cross-functional colleagues across Biogen and requires strong collaboration with internal and partner stakeholders. The Director, Alliance Management will be accountable for managing alliances through the alliance life-cycle and contribute to the success of the partnership. You will be responsible for stakeholder and process management for alliance governance and contribute to conflict resolution. You will participate in alliance design, facilitate collaboration agreement execution development, and develop best practices for best-in-class alliance execution. The ideal candidate will operate with an entrepreneurial spirit and urgency to positively influence Biogen’s ability, in conjunction with our partners, to deliver new medicines to individuals across the globe afflicted by some of the most complex and challenging diseases.

What You’ll Do

• Support some of Biogen’s alliances with a focus on assets/partnerships that are typically grounded in pre-Commercial assets from pre-clinical through Phase II.
• Develop collaboration guiding principles and objectives, execute and recommend changes to governance structure, develop joint ways of working, and provide alliance health checks.
• Act as the technical expert on the alliance contract, facilitate contract agreement execution and as needed, support contract amendments.
• Drive alliance governance including alignment with internal and collaboration partners on agenda, internal preparation, and outcomes tracking.
• Build knowledge of partner capabilities, culture, assets, deal structure/drivers, derisking.
• Establish relationship with partner counterparts.
• Represent the voice of the alliance with stakeholders.
• Implement tools and best practices for best-in-class alliance execution.
• Drive functional learnings within an alliance.

Qualifications

Who You Are

You are a self-motivated team-player with demonstrated ability to excel in a fast-paced, collaborative environment. You are intellectually curious and results-driven with a passion for winning. You operate with a focus on balancing robustness with efficiency and with appropriate autonomy and resourcefulness. You are comfortable working across several workstreams running in parallel and a practitioner of active prioritization. You excel in communication and building trust and credibility at all levels of the organization. You act with unparalleled ethics and integrity consistent with company values.

Required Skills

• Knowledge of alliance contracts and ability to translate into actions.
• Experience in stakeholder management both internally and externally with partners.
• Conceptual and innovative thinking to develop solutions.
• Ability to anticipate business/alliance issues and recommend path to resolution and improvements.
• Track record of leading projects and executing on multiple work streams in parallel.
• Experience on developing the strategy for project execution.
• Ability to communicate complex ideas, anticipates potential objections and persuades others to adopt a different point of view.
• Experience with change management strategies.
• Strong written and verbal executive communication skills.

Required Experience

• 12-15 years of experience in Life Sciences Alliance Management or related roles required.
• Advanced degree may be substituted for experience, as appropriate.
• Bachelor’s degree in a related field required.
• Adjacent experience in Finance, Business Development, Strategy, Commercial, Medical, R&D and Manufacturing is strongly considered.
• Track-record of strong individual contributor experience in a matrixed organization.
• Track record of leading cross-functional projects.

Additional Information

Why Biogen?

We are a global team with a commitment to excellence, and a pioneering spirit. As a mid-sized biotechnology company, we provide the stability and resources of a well-established business while fostering an environment where individual contributions make a significant impact. Our team encompasses some of the most talented and passionate achievers who have unparalleled opportunities for learning, growth, and expanding their skills. Above all, we work together to deliver life-changing medicines, with every role playing a vital part in our mission. Caring Deeply. Achieving Excellence. Changing Lives.

At Biogen, we are committed to building on our culture of inclusion and belonging that reflects the communities where we operate and the patients we serve. We know that diverse backgrounds, cultures, and perspectives make us a stronger and more innovative company, and we are focused on building teams where every employee feels empowered and inspired. Read on to learn more about our DE&I efforts.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, marital status, race, color, national origin, ancestry, ethnicity, religion, age, veteran status, disability, genetic information or any other basis protected by federal, state or local law. Biogen is an E-Verify Employer in the United States.