Director – Strategic Collaborations & External Partnerships

职位描述

At Gilead our pursuit of a healthier world for all people has yielded a cure for hepatitis C, revolutionary improvements in HIV treatment and prevention as well as advancements in therapies for viral and inflammatory diseases and certain cancers.

We set and achieve bold ambitions in our fight against the world’s most devastating diseases, united in our commitment to confronting the largest public health challenges of our day and improving the lives of patients for generations to come.

We are seeking a Director of Strategic Collaborations & External Partnerships for Kite’s Evidence Generation organization. We work with academic partners to deliver data that transforms patient outcomes — driven by scientific excellence, flawless delivery, and empowered teams. This person will take a lead role in defining how our network of external partners can best supplement Kite’s strategic priorities.

The Director will be an individual with a strong track record in strategy, portfolio management and operations. They must have the proven ability to drive and track business objectives effectively, manage complex partnerships, influence stakeholders without authority, and collaborate with executive leaders, all within a dynamic, fast-paced environment.

Key Responsibilities:

Strategic Framework:

• Establish standard operating model for vetting, initiating and evaluating strategic collaborations

• Partner with Evidence Generation Strategy Leads and Program Managers to define metrics for screening and evaluating proposals, ensure each strategic collaboration has KPIs to demonstrate effectiveness of the partnership, and lead application of best practices

Network Partner Strategy

• Responsible to align product-level evidence generation priorities with objectives for each partnership and partner with program managers to ensure the evidence generation strategic framework is refreshed and communicated consistently

Relationship Management:

• Provide strategic oversight for key collaborations to align on strategic objectives, administer governance activities and support partner-of-choice delivery

• Establish and reinforce standards and expectations for all Kite teams to adopt when interacting with strategic collaboration partners

Cross-Functional & Cross-Regional Collaboration:

• Collaborate with Alliance Management, Medical and R&D stakeholders to maintain mutual visibility into emerging challenges, risks, and opportunities within external partnerships, fostering proactive issue resolution

• Prepare and present regular reports on the progress, outcomes, and impact of key collaborations to senior leadership and stakeholders

Operations:

• Collaborate with Gilead and Kite to negotiate and manage partnership agreements, ensure compliance and maintain financial discipline

• Contribute new project management approaches, methods, resources, and capabilities as applicable to support evolution of ways of working among the program management team

• Develop reporting and use data to generate insights that inform program KPIs

Basic Qualifications

• Advanced scientific degree (i.e., MD, PharmD, PhD) and 8+ years of biotech/pharmaceutical industry experience OR

• Master’s Degree and 10+ years of biotech/pharmaceutical industry experience OR

• Bachelor’s Degree and 12+ years of biotech/pharmaceutical industry experience

Preferred Qualifications

• Strong scientific understanding/experience in clinical and/or pre-clinical research, or experience in Clinical Research/Development, Medical Affairs

• Experience and proven ability to build effective working relationships with a diverse range of internal and external key stakeholders in a highly-matrixed, rapidly-changing environment

• Solutions-oriented, with strong strategic thinking capabilities and demonstrated experience in developing frameworks that can be applied at scale

• Proactive, self-motivated, and resourceful – able to cultivate path forward in ambiguous circumstances a know when to ask for support or escalation

• Proficient at synthesizing information to support leadership presentations and stakeholder communications

• Experience of working in an international environment and distributed workforce an advantage

• Knowledge and skill with Smartsheet, Microsoft Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Outlook, and other reporting and tracking tools

People Leader Accountabilities:

• Create Inclusion - knowing the business value of diverse teams, modeling inclusion, and embedding the value of diversity in the way they manage their teams.

• Develop Talent - understand the skills, experience, aspirations and potential of their employees and coach them on current performance and future potential. They ensure employees are receiving the feedback and insight needed to grow, develop and realize their purpose.

• Empower Teams - connect the team to the organization by aligning goals, purpose, and organizational objectives, and holding them to account. They provide the support needed to remove barriers and connect their team to the broader ecosystem.