Director Alliance Growth Strategy
Director Alliance Growth Strategy
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$ 190000 - 220000
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Absci is a datafirst AI drug creation company designing differentiated therapeutics using generative AI. Our Integrated Drug Creation platform powers cuttingedge de novo AI models and AI lead optimization models aimed at designing better biologics against difficulttodrug targets.
Absci is a global company with a stateoftheart lab and headquarters in Vancouver WA AI Research Lab in New York City AI Computational Center in Serbia and Drug Creation innovation center in Switzerland.absci/joinus
Director Alliance & Growth Strategy
Due to our growing business we are expanding our Alliance & Growth Strategy team by adding an experienced Director. You will be focused on leading multifaceted global research and development alliances with industry partners in the discovery and development of nextgeneration biologics. You are an experienced alliance manager with scientific understanding of drug discovery and development and your ability to think strategically about technical challenges to build and convey compelling value propositions will enable you to drive successful business relationships.
Responsibilities
- Advance new and ongoing partnerships. Manage the daytoday relationships with biopharma partnerships and ensure excellence and timely delivery of projects by aligning external and internal stakeholders.
- Partner with Business Development in developing new alliance agreements and coordinating account and project plans. Work with program management to ensure adequate resourcing is being applied to each project at the necessary time. Manage contractual obligations and milestones and safeguard Abscis intellectual property. Facilitate negotiations with the partner in the event of differences.
- Ensure alignment and mutual understanding. Serve as a liaison between stakeholders. Proactively communicate and work with teams to ensure alignment and understanding of deliverables and any potential bottlenecks. Proactively identify and communicate issues potential conflict and risk with partners and the program. Track progress towards goals with measurable KPIs.
- Innovate on behalf of the partner and identify partner value drivers. Maintain high visibility within the partner organization and broaden and deepen the relationships and discover additional areas of collaboration. Create an environment of continuous improvement to optimize alliance value.
- Manage multiple high visibility priorities.
- Mentor and/or directly manage alliance management team members supporting functional growth and career development.
- Constantly facilitate and promote a team environment.
Qualifications
- PhD or advanced degree in a scientific field and a minimum of 5 years relevant experience including at least 2 years leading crossfunctional scientific technical teams.
- Demonstrated success in earning partner/customer trust. Must have excellent interpersonal organizational written and verbal communication skills with the ability to understand and communicate scientific and business data.
- Must have solid analytical and problemsolving skills be detailoriented and have the ability to drive tactical outcomes and combine attention to detail with a bigpicture longterm plan.
- Demonstrated collaboration skills with the ability to work in a team environment between internal team members and external partners.
- Selfmotivated with a strong sense of urgency.
- Innovative entrepreneurial mindset.
Huge plus (but not required):
- Certification in Alliance Management best practices such as CAAM.
- Education or training in project management principles concepts practices and standards.
The salary range for this position is $/year. Competitive equity package applies. Pay offered may vary depending on jobrelated knowledge skills and experience. In addition to equity compensation packages include a wide range of medical dental vision benefits and ability to participate in our employee stock purchase plan.
Absci offers highly competitive salaries and benefits including medical dental vision insurance unlimited vacation parental leave breakfast and lunch for onsite employees employee assistance program voluntary life and disability insurance annual bonus potential and 401(k) with a generous company match. Legal authorization to work in the United States is required.
We seek candidates who will dive into our creative company culture thats collaborative multidisciplinary and committed to a big vision for positive impact. We are defying conventions and innovating without boundaries. We are disrupting an industry with bold ideas and passionate pursuit of new possibilities. We are looking for original thinkers creative scientists and datadevoted gurus. Successful candidates will be excited to work in a dynamic environment and contribute as a key member of a project team. If this sounds good to you we invite you to join us in our quest to redefine possible.
Legal authorization to work in the United States is required. Absci is committed to equal employment opportunity and nondiscrimination for all employees and qualified applicants without regard to a persons race color gender age religion national origin ancestry disability veteran status genetic information sexual orientation or any characteristic protected under applicable law. Absci will make reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with known disabilities in accordance with applicable law. Absci offers a dogfriendly work environment bring your pup along for the ride.
Required Experience:
Director
Employment Type
Full-Time
