Director, Alliance Management

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.