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Caris Life Sciences · 20 hours ago

Senior Alliance Manager

United States

Full-time

Hybrid

Senior Level

$145K/yr - $175K/yr

6+ years exp

Caris Life Sciences is a company dedicated to transforming cancer care and improving lives through precision medicine. The Senior Alliance Manager will be responsible for managing partnerships with biopharma and biotech companies, ensuring successful collaboration and delivery of projects that enhance patient care and streamline operations.

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Responsibilities

Manage a portfolio of alliances

Strategic value and alliance health: Conduct due diligence to gain a thorough understanding of the partner’s organization, objectives, and value drivers. Lead periodic health checks. Execute annual operating plans aligned with corporate objectives

Contract management: Guide internal project teams with respect to opportunities and constraints arising from partnership agreements. Ensure project aims, deliverables, and objectives are met

Delivery: Lead a prescriptive delivery, gathering partner requirements, and making recommendations about the provisioning of Caris solutions. Direct delivery team from program inception to completion of final deliverables, ensuring high quality execution of alliance commitments. Align business needs to workstream deliverables, managing timeline and technical performance. Communicate prioritization, organize team activities, escalate potential roadblocks, and track to program goals

Process management: Establish smooth operations, preparation of governance meetings and decision-making. Lead partner implementations in a way that exceeds partner expectations and meets timelines

Alignment and relationship management: Shepherd intra- and inter-company alignment and communication; Lead efforts for increased mutual understanding and trust. Drive continuous improvement of the alliance. Enhance and redesign governance. Identify incremental expansion opportunities. Serve as an internal solution and process SME for expansion, validating feasibility, risks, and timelines

Proactive risk management: Identify and communicate partner needs. Lead mitigation plan

Demonstrate strong competency in Caris’s solutions and effectively communicate the value of Caris’ offerings to provide best practice recommendations to our partners and tailor delivery to their needs

Build, maintain and help expand strong customer relationships through partner focus, professional demeanor, reliability, and responsiveness

Execute according to implementation and relationship management best practices and mentor colleagues

Contribute to continuous process improvement and pilot improvements

Provide account-level forecasting inputs: update deliverable dates, sample volumes, risks, and assumptions

Qualification

Molecular biologyClinical molecular diagnosticsOncologyRegulatory frameworksClinical researchProject managementMicrosoft Office SuiteRelationship managementProcess improvement

Required

6 years of combined education and/or professional experience in one or more of the following domains: molecular biology, clinical molecular diagnostics, or oncology, managing multimodal RWD relationships or repositories, development or discovery, clinical research or study management, product management, companion diagnostics projects, or implementing projects or delivery in healthcare

Ability to travel up to 20%

Proficient in Microsoft Office Suite, specifically Word, Excel, Outlook, and general working knowledge of Internet for business use

Preferred

Working knowledge of applicable regulatory and quality frameworks (e.g., CLIA, CAP, GMP, GCP, IVDR, HIPAA) and how they impact day-to-day operations and deliverables

Experience delivering—or partnering to deliver—oncology offerings, laboratory services, therapeutic programs, healthcare data products, or clinical-trial enrollment solutions