Associate Director, Alliance Management Lead

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Position Summary:

• Coordinate with partner counterpart with focus on overall portfolio delivery including ensuring timely execution of the book of work while adhering to the MSA and Quality Agreement.

• Co-lead with vendor partner and drive efficient and effective governance meetings, including Operational Management Committees and additional project meetings as necessary.

• Liaise with internal teams, regional colleagues, key subject matter experts and stakeholders in other functions and within partner’s organization to embed the operational model, and to identify and resolve issues and gaps.

• Drive collaborative continuous improvement initiatives with the partner to streamline and improve operational processes.

Position Responsibilities:

• Drive communication with internal and external partners to align on operational processes.

• Collaborate with the BMS quality organization and partner to drive, implement, and operationalize effective quality management of clinical trials.

• Support MSA/partnership contract negotiations as necessary.

• Collaborate with other BMS business units that outsource clinical trials to ensure alignment of information, best practices, and to standardize processes were applicable.

• Provide outsourcing perspective and vendor capabilities to ensure proactive consideration of impact to outsourced studies.

• Support the onboarding of new partnerships and responsibilities associated with change management.

• Portfolio and priority study-level escalation point of contact. Act as escalation point for trending lab issues, issues that BMS team members are unable to resolve directly with the vendor, and partnership scale issues. 

• Monitor key performance indicators/metrics across portfolio and vendors to identify trends related to issues and successes within each category. 

Qualifications & Experience:

• Bachelor’s degree (advanced degree preferred) in clinical or scientific discipline.

• 5-7 years of relevant experience in clinical development (pharma, biotech, CRO).

• 5+ years of Lab (could be both Central and Specialty) experience is a must.

• Experience in managing clinical service providers and executing financial/legal agreements.

• Proven ability to manage stakeholders, including senior leaders, and influence changes when necessary.

• Strong interpersonal and communication skills with the ability to manage cross-functional and multi-cultural teams.

• Ability to adapt to complex and ambiguous environments while managing multiple priorities effectively.

Soft Skills Experience:

• Ability to influence up/down.

• Strong time management, communication skills and ability to prioritize.

• Ability to work with diverse groups of stakeholders with different backgrounds and competing priorities.

• Creativity is another one, especially with issue management negotiation skills/experience is certainly a plus.

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