Partnership Enablement Director (Biotech)
United States of America, Remote Additional Locations: Remote, New Jersey, United States of America; Remote, North Carolina, United States of America 职位编号 R0000026930 类别 Project Leadership关于这个职位
Home Based, US (preference for East Coast)
The Biotech Partnership Enablement Director is responsible for developing and maintaining the infrastructure to support commercial growth, consistent quality and profitable execution of our Biotech partnerships. CRO experience is required, along with a deep understanding of the drug development process. You will interface with stakeholders in Parexel to provide guidance and coordinate the modifications to the Parexel partnership model - primarily operational delivery processes and the underlying technology/data frameworks. Additionally, you will establish and maintain both internal and external governance of Parexel Biotech partnerships while sharing best practices and lessons learned with other members of the Biotech Partnership Enablement Office and across account teams.
Support Commercial Activity
- Support the commercial account lead in the development of the partnership value narrative
- Provide input into / write RFI/RFP content around partnering best practices and expertise
- Create presentation material on partnership and governance best practices in support of new partnerships
- Attend/support prep and Sponsor meetings, advising on / speaking to partnering models and implementation
Lead Cross-SBU Partnership Design and Build
- Develop SME requirements and obtain SME support for the partnership
- Project manage the development the build, implementation, maintenance and evolution of partnership model elements, including:
- Operating Model (Playbook and operations manuals) including coordinating contributions by SMEs
- Governance Framework, including development of charters
- Partnership Metrics & Key Performance Indicators, including partnership scorecards
- Technology landscape with SME contribution from the Client Technology Partner to outline the data and document flows
- Training Plans (executed by Partnership Training Leads)
- Partnership communications, surveys, shared platforms and engagement methods and tools
- Coordinate workstreams to develop the above partnership elements
- May be assigned as a workstream lead for Parexel liaising directly with Sponsor counterpart (and may include working with a lead from another CRO)
- Participate in ongoing Sponsor meetings / collaborative workshops
- Contribute to account planning particularly with regards to the overall schedule of work being managed to grow the partnership commercially
Support Cross-SBU Partnership Maintenance
- Accountable for organizing and coordinating the maintenance and sustainability of the partnership model in partnership with commercial account lead and the operational account lead members including
- Facilitation of ongoing partnership operating model evolution
- Continuous improvement of partnership infrastructure, reporting, and communications
- Adjustment of partnering / sourcing model
- Support the periodic evaluation of the SME demand / engagement
- Impact assessment of changes to the partnership model and its components
- Relationship health surveys
Thought Leadership
- Establish and maintain partnering best practices across all elements of partnership
- Consult on and recommend models/approaches customized to fit Sponsor and Parexel needs
- Establish, maintain and present externally and internally on partnering best practices
- Partner with Corporate Marketing to create material to publish Parexel’s experience, success in partnering and differentiation in the external market
Skills:
- Excellent communication skills, including verbal and written communication, active listening, providing constructive feedback and facilitating group discussions.
- Developing ability to think globally, strategically and analytically to problem-solve, make decisions keeping the patient and customer in focus.
- Strong interpersonal skills, able to develop relationships and partnerships, build rapport, persuade, and influence teams, motivate others, manage performance and develop talent.
- Driven to deliver quality results on time and in a highly ethical and professional manner
- Demonstrated strategic and/or consulting skills in helping Sponsors identify and achieve short- and long-term goals through a partnership
- Developing change leader, able to understand and implement change while anticipating and managing resistance.
- Expert project manager with strong organizational and planning skills, competency in risk management with thoughtful action planning.
- Developing personal awareness and emotionally intelligent, ability to self-motivate, innovate, delegate, and manage time as well as taking ownership and accountability for deliverables.
- Comprehensive understanding of the principles of drug discovery and development
- Ability to travel 10%-15%
Knowledge and Experience:
- 12-15 years’ experience in late phase clinical research
- 5-7 years’ experience managing clinical projects
- Expertise in ICH-GxPs
- Experience in how CROs and Pharma / Biotech can work together in different models, and the pros and cons of each model
Education:
- Bachelor’s Degree or other relevant experience required. Life-science or other health-related
discipline preferred. - Master’s Degree in a science, technology or industry-related discipline preferred.
- PMP certification preferred
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