About this role

The Alliance Management & Integration Group is responsible for managing and optimizing the value of alliances and acquisitions across the pharmaceutical product life cycle.

We are seeking an Associate Director level candidate to support alliance management and integration activities. The ideal candidate will have experience managing multi-program alliances, as well as experience integrating complex partnerships and developing best practices.

What you’ll do

• Work with new and existing partners to achieve partnership goals.
• Lead efforts to establish mutual understanding, respect, trust and good communication between alliance partners.
• Establish a common understanding of the operational framework, and drive governance bodies to ensure alliance progress and issue resolution per contractual mandate.
• Lead effective and efficient joint team operation, culture and mutual accountability. Ensure timely and efficient flow of information, meeting materials, and outcomes.
• Ensure cross-functional monitoring, coordination, and mutual compliance with contractual obligations.
• Develop partner insights: understand partner organization, decision-making, and interests. Facilitate mutual understanding of the respective organizations.
• Proactively engage partners to manage issues, and unexpected events, and resolve conflicts at the lowest level. Drive process, decision-making on renegotiations, and alliance conclusion as appropriate.
• Develop and report alliance scorecards.
• Track and report the health of the alliance, and progress against key partnership objectives or key acquisition value drivers. Establish best practices.
• Partner with Business Dev, legal and Project teams pre-deal to ensure project plans, value drivers for partnership/acquisition, and governance are aligned appropriately in the contract.
• Foster alliance management understanding and skills across the organization.

Who you are

This role is highly cross-functional, requiring effective communication and collaboration with Biogen teams, alliance partners, and respective leadership to achieve partnership objectives. The position will be based in Cambridge, MA and report to a Director of Alliance Management & Integration.

Required Skills:

• 7+ years in biotech, pharmaceutical, and/or consulting environments
• Thorough understanding of contracts, partnerships, experience in negotiations, alliance management and /or M&A integration
• Track record of having managed successful alliances preferred
• Experienced, hands-on project manager adept at establishing processes, defining “playbooks” and templates, and managing cross-functional teams through significant ambiguity and complexity·
• Experience leading and/or significantly contributing to integration of acquisitions.
• Strong general management and leadership qualities and an ability to influence across company lines and to communicate at the Executive Committee level.
• Understanding of the drug development process and working knowledge of the essential activities for all key functional areas. Demonstrated project management experience.
• Excellent interpersonal, oral, and written communication skills, relationship building skills, ability to navigate organizations and with individuals at all levels.
• Ability to manage difficult conversations and interactions as they arise. Ability to manage and resolve conflict; negotiation skills.
• Strong analytical and leadership skills, including creative, problem solving mindset and ability to work in multicultural environment.
• Highly motivated, results-oriented individual with passion for leveraging differences and doing right for patients.

Education:

BS/BA required; advanced degree (e.g., MBA) and/or advanced life sciences degree (MD, PhD, PharmD) strongly preferred.

Why Biogen?

Our mission to find therapies for neurological and rare diseases is a unique focus within our industry and this shared purpose is what connects us as a team. We work together to overcome obstacles and to follow the science. We are resilient as we strive to make an impact on our patients’ lives and on changing the course of medicine. Together, we pioneer. Together, we thrive.

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