Executive Director Business Alliances

Executive Director Business Alliances

As part of our Business Alliance Management team, you'll contribute to our corporate success by steering BioNTech's collaborations in Oncology with large pharmaceutical companies, biotech companies, and academic partnerships.

The position can be in Cambridge, MA or Berkeley Heights, NJ office.

Responsibilities :

• Managing long-term complex alliances and developing relationships with strategic partners.
• Serve as a primary point of contact and establish a high level of trust with partner and within BioNTech to enable alliance operational execution.
• Establish BioNTech as a partner-of-choice through a solution-based and relationship-focused alliance management aimed at achieving mutually beneficial outcomes.
• Represent BioNTech's interests while maintaining collaborative long-term and constructive relationships with partners.
• Serve as thought leader for alliance execution and relationship management with BioNTech senior leadership.
• Provide to partner an open and continuous channel of communication to ensure partner perspectives are heard and well represented internally within BioNTech.
• Foster constructive interactions with BioNTech's R&D, commercial, manufacturing, medical affairs, finance, legal, and project management alliance team members.
• Ensure alliance governance is established and function efficiently consistent with the contract including JSC, JDC, JCC, and JMC forums. Manage and direct alliance governance activities to ensure contract compliance.
• Express influence over alliance teams without authority as needed to facilitate and drive timely and decisive alliance decision-making through scenario planning and consensus building to maximize the value of the alliance to the organization.
• Lead alliance issue management by proactively recognizing potential alliance risks and conflicts at an early stage and proactively managing issues to resolution while maintaining and fostering a collaborative working relationship with the partner. Anticipate areas of potential conflict with alliance teams and propose risk mitigation approaches. Taking the lead on issues that require alliance consensus by gaining internal alignment and driving to resolution with partner.
• Tracking, communication, and managing key milestones and contractual obligations.
• Provide alliance team members with appropriate training and tools to help them and the alliance be successful.
• Determine key success factors and metrics for measuring alliance health and progress.
• Support the evolution of alliances by leading complex negotiations with existing alliance partners. This includes defining and validating BioNTech negotiation perimeter with key stakeholders, drafting and negotiating term sheets and contracts for expanded research and clinical activities, licensing & collaboration agreements for existing partnerships.

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Home to dozens of research institutions, biopharmaceutical companies, life science incubators, venture capital firms, and over 30 million square feet of laboratory space, Cambridge, Massachusetts has earned a reputation as the #1 life science cluster in the world. As part of the Greater Boston area, the city is often referred to as the "biotech supercluster" due to its high concentration of life sciences firms. This unique ecosystem is the result of a model partnership between academia and industry, fostering collaboration and innovation and driving the development of new therapies, medical devices, and diagnostics. As Cambridge's thriving life sciences industry continues to evolve, the city remains a beacon of knowledge, innovation, and collaboration, poised to shape the future of science and technology.

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