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Kailera Therapeutics · 3 weeks ago

Associate Director, Alliance Management Operations

Waltham, Massachusetts

Full-time

Onsite

Lead/Staff, Director/Executive

$160K/yr - $200K/yr

8+ years exp

Kailera is committed to developing therapies that empower people to transform their lives. The Associate Director of Alliance Management Operations will optimize corporate alliances by implementing management systems and tools, collaborating with functional leaders, and driving strategic decisions across the organization.

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H1B Sponsor Likely

Responsibilities

Implement our Alliance Management Operations systems, playbooks, and reporting, while operationalizing department strategy

Collaborate effectively with Kailera functional leaders, Partner’s alliance management team, and SaaS vendor to collect, input, and optimize the information necessary to build and manage comprehensive alliance management dashboards for the functional leaders and executive leadership team

Inform the organization of enterprise risks, opportunities, and inflection points related to alliance management

Champion alliance management best practices across the organization to ensure an insight-driven way of working and decision making

Operationalizing alliance governance and working group meetings, including meeting scheduling, agenda, and slides preparation with the alliance partner, meeting minutes, and tracking actions, decisions, issues

Alliance management records management and other general alliance management operational tasks

Qualification

Alliance management experienceData collectionAnalytical skillsProject managementMicrosoft PowerPointMicrosoft SharePointAI in business operationsDrug development knowledgeEntrepreneurial mindsetHigh integrityCollaborationTeamworkSelf-starter

Required

3+ years of experience in alliance management or partnership operations, business development operations, R&D or Commercial operations, or top-tier consulting within the USA biopharma or biotech industry

8+ years of overall progressive experience in the life sciences industry or other relevant experience

A creative operations leader who has a sharp sense for data collection, tracking, and reporting. Excels at story telling using information, personal knowledge, and data. Ability to create dashboards and reports for functional and executive leadership

The ability to work independently and successfully in a matrix environment, prioritize and manage multiple projects and tasks simultaneously, and thrive in a dynamic environment

Demonstrated expertise having integrated organizational or cross-functional information into systems and tools to input, track, manage, report, and optimize the operations of a program, department, or company

Expert-level proficiency in analytical skills, information technology, and project management, as well as in Microsoft Powerpoint and Sharepoint

Demonstrated quality of experience leveraging AI to drive business operations

Knowledge of the drug development process, particularly late-stage development, to enable meaningful dialogue with internal stakeholders and external partners

Comfortability and understanding of contractual terminology related to legal, business development, and/or licensing

Highly motivated, entrepreneurial individual, with an ability and willingness to navigate between high-level alliance/program strategy and day-to-day execution within a team-oriented culture

A dynamic self-starter who takes initiative, works independently, and is motivated to achieve goals without needing constant supervision or direction

High integrity, strong collaboration and teamwork, and an excellence that aligns with Kailera's corporate values, and able to maintain the confidential nature of the alliance management work

Preferred

Alliance management certifications, such as CA-AM, or project management certifications, such as PMP, are preferred

Experience working with Power BI a plus

Having worked closely with China or Asia Pacific colleagues is a plus

Benefits

Comprehensive health benefits and tax-advantaged savings accounts

Flexible time off, 13 paid holidays, and a companywide year-end shutdown

Monthly wellness stipend

Generous 401(k) match

Disability and life insurance

Company

Kailera Therapeutics

Kailera Therapeutics develops next-generation injectable and oral therapies for chronic weight management.

Founded in 2024

Waltham, Massachusetts, USA

51-200 employees

https://www.kailera.com

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