Director, Alliance Management

Role Responsibilities
Strategic Alliance Leadership:
- Serve as the primary alliance manager for strategic research, development, licensing, and commercialization partnerships
- Develop and execute alliance management strategies aligned with corporate objectives
- Foster trusted relationships with partner organizations at operational and executive levels
- Ensure partnerships achieve agreed milestones, deliverables, and value creation objectives

Governance & Collaboration:
- Establish and manage joint governance committees (Joint Steering Committees, Joint Development Committees, and Joint Project Teams)
- Plan governance meetings, prepare agendas, facilitate discussions, document decisions, and track action items
- Ensure effective communication and decision-making across partner organizations
- Coordinate escalation and resolution of strategic or operational issues

Contract & Financial Management:
- Monitor compliance with collaboration agreements, licensing terms, and governance obligations
- Coordinate milestone tracking and financial obligations (payments, royalties, budget planning)
- Partner with Legal on amendments, contract interpretation, and issue resolution
- Support alliance-related forecasting and financial reporting
- Monitor execution against project timelines and contractual commitments

Issue Resolution & Risk Management:
- Identify emerging partnership risks and develop mitigation strategies
- Facilitate conflict resolution while maintaining productive long-term relationships
- Escalate significant issues to executive leadership as appropriate

Performance Monitoring & Executive Communication:
- Develop and monitor alliance performance metrics and KPIs; conduct partnership health assessments
- Recommend continuous improvement initiatives; strong project management
- Prepare executive presentations/dashboards/status reports; present to senior leadership and governance committees
- Support due diligence and integration planning for new collaborations

Qualifications
- PhD or MBA with 6–8 years of relevant alliance management experience, or Bachelor’s with 10 years
- Demonstrated alliance management experience in biotechnology or pharmaceutical industry
- Global alliance management experience preferred
- Experience managing complex research, clinical development, licensing, or commercialization collaborations
- Knowledge of drug development from discovery through commercialization preferred
- Background preferred in oncology or rare diseases
- Experience with co-development, co-commercialization, or platform technology collaborations
- Familiarity with alliance management best practices and tools

Flex/Location
- Hybrid OR On-Site OR US Remote eligible; travel to headquarters in Boston, MA as required.

Salary Range
- $192,800—$298,200 USD