Director of Alliance Management

The Alliance Management group’s purpose is to maximize the value of Sobi’s investments in Alliances, ensuring delivery of what is contractually defined as well as the spirit and intent of the Alliance, implement a fit for purpose governance model, be a thought partner for the key stakeholders and foster a collaborative relationship between Sobi and our Partners.
The scope includes drug development and commercialization at all stages of the product life cycle. This includes strategic in- and out- licenses, collaborations, commercialization partnerships and acquisitions. This role will be a key contributor in developing and maintaining strategic alliances at Sobi.

This is a remote position that requires work in different time zones, candidates on the US east coast preferred. We also consider candidates in Sweden and Switzerland.

Key Responsibilities

• Oversee the governance of multiple strategic Alliances in development and commercialization partnerships, this including managing governance committees, identifying key issues and providing vetted solutions to key decision makers

• Monitor implementation of and adherence to agreed-upon research, development and commercialization plans; take appropriate action to ensure execution

• Lead the strategic focus to develop a global alliance roadmap/toolkit to ensure alliance management is well defined in all stages of business development (from due diligence to contract development and then implementation)

• Compliance/contract management – liaise with legal, finance, R&D, Commercial and other functions to ensure that key contract milestones, financial transactions, progress reports, etc. are handled appropriately and provide information/updates as needed

• Work directly with the partner company to set the direction and scope for implementation of partnership agreement: key activities, timing and responsibilities on either side

• Crisis management- address hot topic issues that require immediate attention while working to minimize crisis management situations

• Conduct regular reviews/meetings with senior management and other functions as appropriate to communicate key issues, milestones, etc. and gather feedback

Requirements

• Strong business acumen, enterprise thinking, leadership and self-direction with a high learning agility
• Demonstrated Emotional Intelligence with excellent interpersonal skills with ability to lead, interact with, focus, negotiate, resolve conflict
• Demonstrated ability to understand and navigate contract language
• Demonstrated ability to identify, prioritize and resolve key project and partnership issues
• Demonstrated attention to detail and excellence in project management and effectively managing multiple projects/priorities
• Demonstrated ability to work with and coordinate demands from multiple customers, both internally and with partners
• Must be able to handle ambiguity well

Reporting to

VP of Business Development and Alliance Management