Senior Director Alliance Management

Who we are

Together, we’re on a mission to make good health more affordable and accessible, to help millions around the world enjoy healthier lives. It’s a mission that bonds our people across nearly 60 countries and a rich, diverse variety of nationalities and backgrounds. Working here means working with the world’s leading manufacturer of generic medicines, and the proud producer of many of the products on the World Health Organization’s Essential Medicines List. Today, at least 200 million people around the world take one of our medicines every single day. An amazing number, but we’re always looking for new ways to continue making a difference, and new people to make a difference with.

The opportunity

The Senior Director, Global Alliance Management will play a pivotal role in effectively managing strategic alliances and partnerships with selected external partners to drive business growth and maximize the value of the partnership. The role requires a dynamic individual with exceptional communication, negotiation and strategic planning skills that will result in the nurturing and expanding of relationships with key partners.  The Senior Director is the primary liaison with the partner and is responsible for facilitating internal alignment among Teva stakeholders to ensure productive, consistent and collaborative interactions with the partner. The individual must possess a financial acumen to fully understand key contractual business terms and have a strong understanding of drug development and commercialization activities to facilitate Teva and the partner collaborating to deliver value to both parties. 

 
The Alliance Manager provides oversight for joint governance committees, manages fulfillment of obligations to and from the partner and is responsible in collaboration with Business Development and Legal for renegotiations or additional agreements with the partner as required.

How you’ll spend your day

• Develop collaborative relationships with selected high value/complex partners to further Teva’s objective of becoming a partner of choice in the industry. 
• Function as the key point of contact to the partner and internal colleagues. 
• Understand the partner’s business, their disease areas, markets and business challenges.
• Continuously monitor the health and the effectiveness of the partnership and be able to adjust and adapt accordingly. 
• Deeply understand and effectively manage the contractual obligations both to and from the partner and ensure adherence to defined responsibilities thereby avoiding negative impact and/or liability for non-compliance of the agreement.
• Organize and lead governance processes/meetings with the partners (e.g. Joint Steering Committees). Develop agendas and facilitate meetings, ensure stakeholder input into agendas prior to meetings, ensure timely distribution of minutes and completion of action items. Facilitate agreements and compromises with the partner to maintain value. Orchestrate internal preparatory discussions to ensure internal alignment.
• Work closely with internal stakeholders to prepare for meetings, interactions and decisions with partners.  This includes appropriate management of behaviors and expectations of our internal team members to ensure a positive approach to the partnership.
• Understand project/partnership details to manage day-to-day issues arising from the collaboration
• Work with internal colleagues to reach decisions and to ensure communication with the partner is effective, transparent and consistent so as to avoid unnecessary surprises
• Monitor, anticipate and manage issues to ensure timely resolution
• Coordinate with Corporate Communications, IR and other relevant stakeholders to facilitate consistent public disclosures between Teva and partner
• Communicate alliance challenges, issues, and status to Teva senior management in a regular and timely manner; propose solutions and support the resolution of such issues
• Support the smooth project transition from execution of the deal to on-going partnership and post agreement obligations.
• Build and maintain Alliance Management systems and processes as needed, and in collaboration with other functions e.g. Legal as appropriate to track and manage partnerships as one source of truth for regular reporting to senior stakeholders.

Your experience and qualifications

• Bachelors Degree in a science or healthcare discipline
• PhD, MS, MBA, or other advanced degree preferred
• A minimum of 12 years’ experience in the pharmaceutical industry with knowledge of drug development and commercialization
• A minimum of 3 years’ experience in the Alliance Management of complex and strategic partnerships 
• Experience managing partnerships related to development and commercialization of pharmaceutical