Alliance Manager, London or Boston

Alliance Manager London or Boston

We are here to advance human health by reimagining drug discovery with the power and pace of artificial intelligence.

The future is coming. A future enabled and enriched by the incredible power of machine learning. A future in which diseases are curtailed or cured by better and faster drug discovery.

Our values exist in service of that future. We think theyll help us bring it closer too.

Come and be part of an interdisciplinary team driving groundbreaking innovation and play a meaningful role in contributing towards us achieving our ambitious goals while being a part of an inspiring and collaborative culture.

The world we want tomorrow is the one were building today. It starts with the culture at this company. It starts with you.

About Iso

Isomorphic Labs (IsoLabs) was founded in 2021 and is led by Sir Demis Hassabis. Our aim is to usher in a new era of biomedical breakthroughs and find cures for some of humanitys devastating diseases.

Our foundations are built on the success of Google DeepMinds AlphaFold but we didnt stop there! We are continuing to develop and implement state-of-the-art technologies as we move towards our goal of dramatically accelerating and improving the process of designing and bringing new medicines to patients.

We have built a world-leading drug design engine comprising foundational AI models that are capable of working across multiple therapeutic areas and drug modalities. The company is continually innovating on model architecture and developing cutting-edge capabilities to advance rational drug design.

Your impact

This is an exciting opportunity to work at the intersection of pioneering science and business collaborating with world-leading computational chemists biologists and AI experts to advance the next generation of medicines. As an Alliance Manager you will be foundational in building and nurturing strategic partnerships that are critical to our success. You will drive the successful delivery of our key partnerships from early-stage research collaborations to later-stage development programsensuring they achieve maximum scientific and commercial value.

What you will do

• Manage strategic alliances with our partners which have broad and long-term impact on our corporate performance and valuation.
• Contribute to the implementation and execution of operational governance and communication frameworks for new alliances ensuring seamless integration and alignment between internal teams and external partners.
• Oversee the co-creation and tracking of joint research development and data-sharing plans ensuring alignment with contractual obligations and strategic goals.
• Serve as the primary point of contact for key partners fostering collaborative relationships and managing all aspects of alliance governance including Joint Steering Committees) and executive reviews.
• Partner with Business Development during the negotiation and contracting phase of new collaborations providing expert input on alliance management terms and performing due diligence to ensure operational feasibility.
• Help develop implement and refine best-in-class alliance management processes tools and metrics aligning with industry standards to track partnership health and performance.
• Proactively identify and pursue value-creation opportunities within existing partnerships (e.g. extensions expansions new projects) while anticipating and mitigating potential risks and conflicts.
• Champion a collaborative one team culture across the company and our external partners fostering open communication and mutual success.
• Guide decision-making within the contractual governance framework ensure milestones are met convene appropriate partners to enlist their support and constructively resolve conflicts escalating to senior management as necessary.

Skills and qualifications

Essential:

• Proven alliance management experience: Demonstrated success in an Alliance Manager role within the pharmaceutical biotech or life sciences industry with direct responsibility for managing complex collaborations (e.g. research development data partnerships).
• Contractual Acumen: In depth understanding of the legal and business terms of collaboration agreements with the ability to interpret and manage contractual obligations for all parties.
• Drug discovery & development knowledge: Demonstrable understanding of the end-to-end drug discovery and development process from target identification and pre-clinical studies through to clinical trials.
• Exceptional influence & communication: Outstanding communication interpersonal and negotiation skills with a demonstrated ability to influence and align stakeholders at all levels both internally and externally without formal authority.

Nice to have:

• Advanced scientific background: An advanced degree (MSc PhD) or equivalent professional experience in a relevant scientific field such as chemistry biology pharmacology or computational sciences is strongly preferred.
• ASAP Accreditation: A desire to achieve or current certification in alliance management (e.g. CA-AM or CS-AP from the Association of Strategic Alliance Professionals) is highly desirable.
• Diverse partnership experience: Proven experience managing data-sharing partnerships discovery/pre-clinical/clinical programs or strategic CRO relationships.
• Technical familiarity: Exposure to the application of AI/ML computational chemistry or complex data management within a drug discovery context.
• Large pharma or biotech: Experience working within an Alliance Management function at a large pharmaceutical company or a fast-paced biotech.

Culture and values

We are guided by our shared values. Its not about finding people who think and act in the same way. These values help to guide our work and will continue to strengthen it.

Thoughtful
Thoughtful at Iso is about curiosity creativity and care. It is about good people doing good rigorous and future-making science every single day.

Brave
Brave at Iso is about fearlessness but its also about initiative and integrity. The scale of the challenge demands nothing less.

Determined
Determined at Iso is the way we pursue our goal. Its a confidence in our hypothesis as well as the urgency and agility needed to deliver on it. Because disease wont wait so neither should we.

Together
Together at Iso is about connection collaboration across fields and catalytic relationships. Its knowing that transformation is a group project and remembering that what were doing will have a real impact on real people everywhere.

Creating an extraordinary company

We believe that to be successful we need a team with a range of skills and talents. Were building an environment where collaboration is fundamental learning is shared and every employee feels supported and able to thrive. We value unique experiences knowledge backgrounds and perspectives and harness these qualities to create extraordinary impact.

We are committed to equal employment opportunities regardless of sex race religion or belief ethnic or national origin disability age citizenship marital domestic or civil partnership status sexual orientation gender identity pregnancy or related condition (including breastfeeding) or any other basis protected by applicable law. If you have a disability or additional need that requires accommodation please do not hesitate to let us know.

Hybrid working

Its hugely important for us to share knowledge and build strong relationships with each other and we find it easier to do this if we spend time together in person. This is why we follow a hybrid model and would require you to be able to come into the office 3 days a week (currently Tuesday Wednesday and one other day depending on which team youre in). If you have additional needs that would prevent you from following this hybrid approach wed be happy to talk through these if youre selected for an initial screening call.

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