Associate Director, Alliance Manager

Position Summary:

Lead cross-functional projects spanning new business development transactions to existing strategic alliance partnerships. Provide alliance management expertise and maximize alliance performance including the effectiveness, value, and overall success for strategic partnerships. As the primary point of contact for strategic relationships, this person will actively manage alliance partner dynamics and complexities across geographic regions.

Essential Job Functions and Responsibilities:

These may include but are not limited to:

• Serve as alliance manager and lead day-to-day alliance activities, managing, and directing joint governance activities, and ensuring successful collaboration, initiation, and execution in connection with domestic and international development and clinical stage alliances.
• Establish trust and effective relationships with partners and between key internal and external team members.
• Ensure that roles, responsibilities, and obligations are understood and maintained between the parties.
• Support and lead as an alliance single point of contact, working closely with internal team members, senior leaders, and alliance counterparts to manage and advance aligned goals and deliverables, and overall health and success of the collaboration
• Oversee and support collaboration governance and operating norms (e.g. communication, decision-making, issue escalation, charters, and best practices) including forming, managing, and supporting joint committees and project teams.
• Ensure that alliance goals progress and meet or exceed pre-defined objectives and timelines.
• Develop a comprehensive understanding of alliance partners; serve as the internal Crinetics expert on the relevant contractual and business agreements, partner dynamics, and the overall state of the partner relationship.
• Proactively identify and resolve conflicts as needed or raise conflicts and disputes to appropriate management or committees for timely resolution while maintaining collaborative working relationships; ensure internal alignment prior to joint decisions.
• Ensure that strategies and decisions adopted by the governance committees are implemented and that plans/actions are consistent with contractual agreements.
• Proactively track, monitor and communicate contract achievements, obligations and any financial payments to Global Product Leaders and management, and partner with GPL to ensure that both Crinetics and its alliance partners are on track to meet contractual obligations and landmarks.
• Continuously seek opportunities to optimize and simplify decision-making to support effective alliance execution.
• Help to maximize the value of the partnership for both organizations by initiating routine assessment of partnership health and seeking business opportunities to advance predefined programs or expand beyond the current collaboration.
• Interface closely with business development and legal to clarify contractual aspects of collaboration agreements with the intent of providing guidance internally to team, committee members, and senior management to enhance the values of alliances, ensure appropriate boundaries are set and guide decision-making.
• Lead and support corporate-level initiatives under the guidance of the Chief of Staff to the COO.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure alignment and successful execution of corporate-level initiatives.

Education and Experience:

Required:

• Minimum Bachelor’s degree in science related field required, MBA or equivalent preferred.
• 12 years of industry experience with general knowledge of pharmaceutical operations, i.e., clinical development, regulatory, commercialization, manufacturing, and legal.
• Minimum of 1 year in engagement, partnership or alliance manager role. Experience with partnerships in Asia-Pacific region preferred.
• Highly collaborative, possess a track record of building and maintaining cross- functional relationships, and able to communicate business topics effectively with senior management and across cultures.
• Excellent business acumen with demonstrated ability to develop solutions that support product, team, corporate, and alliance objectives.
• Demonstrates poise in conflict situations, has the ability to keep an objective perspective, and exercise diplomacy in all interactions.
• Ability to work effectively across organizational levels, functions and geographic boundaries to complete objectives.
• Exceptional communication, interpersonal skills, and ability to build relationships.

Preferred:

• Broad business and pharmaceutical experience preferably both international and US with demonstrated ability to resolve conflict and exercise diplomacy in a r