Kailera Therapeutics · 20 hours ago
Associate Director, Alliance Management Operations
Greater Boston
Full-time
Hybrid
Lead/Staff, Director/Executive
$160K/yr - $200K/yr
8+ years expKailera Therapeutics is dedicated to developing therapies that enhance people's health and lives. The Associate Director of Alliance Management Operations will be responsible for optimizing corporate alliances by implementing systems and tools for alliance management, collaborating with various teams, and ensuring effective decision-making through comprehensive dashboards and reports.
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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
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 coverage
Flexible time off
Paid holidays
Year-end shutdown
Monthly wellness stipend
Generous 401(k) match
Tuition reimbursement
Commuter benefits
Disability and life insurance
Annual bonus opportunities
Equity grants
Company
Kailera Therapeutics
Kailera Therapeutics develops next-generation injectable and oral therapies for chronic weight management.
51-200 employees
Funding
Current Stage
Growth StageTotal Funding
$1BKey Investors
Bain Capital Private Equity
2025-10-14Series B· $600M
2024-10-01Series A· $400M
Leadership Team
Ronald Renaud
President & CEO
Paul Burgess
Chief Operating Officer and Chief Business Officer
Recent News
Boston Globe
2026-01-16
2026-01-05
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