Senior Manager, Alliance Management

Position Summary  

Pfizer is seeking a highly motivated Senior Manager, Alliance Management. This role will be responsible to support the Strategic Partnerships team and interact with partners to ensure alliance performance and overall success for strategic partnerships (clinical collaborations, research and development partnerships).   
 
Principal Responsibilities 

• Work with Strategic Partnerships team to partner with companies to initiate alliances, manage joint milestones, and implement partnership agreements.  Emphasis of the role will be placed on clinical collaborations. 

• Serve as an alliance point of contact, working closely with internal team members, and alliance counterparts to manage and advance joint goals and deliverables, contract issues, and overall health of the collaboration 

• Develop tools and resources that support collaboration governance and operating norms (e.g. communication, decision-making) including onboarding materials, joint sharing workspaces, and standard templates 

• Partner closely with internal cross-functional team members to ensure alignment with product goals, alliance operating principles and contractual terms and goals of the collaboration 

• Work closely with internal team members and functional leaders to ensure ongoing alignment, prepare for key engagements, and manage escalation  

• Coordinate with internal business partners (e.g. finance, communications, legal, corporate development) to facilitate proactive partnership management and ensure strong alignment and coordination of key business activities 

• Proactively track, monitor, and communicate contractual obligations and deliverables to ensure responsibilities met in accordance with terms of collaboration  

• Ensure that alliances are managed consistently, drive implementation of alliance management best practices, standard tools and approaches 

• Build and maintain internal alliance management communications and working space for sharing resources and best practices 

• Develop tools for continuous improvement of partnership management at Pfizer 

• Build expertise in managing partners, including organizational awareness, effective governance, and engaging across management levels 

Qualifications 

• Bachelor’s Degree in biomedical sciences, business, or other discipline related to drug development and 6+ years of industry experience 

• Experience working with partners or accounts required for a minimum of 1-2 years 

• Minimum of 3 years of relevant experience in the pharmaceutical, life sciences or related industry – experience in oncology is desirable 

• Experienceworking