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Director, Early Portfolio Alliance Management & Operations
Spring House, Pennsylvania, United States of America · Director
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About the role
- As the senior escalation point for complex programmatic, resourcing, contractual, and governance issues, the individual works closely with senior leadership to resolve challenges, guide decision-making, and align alliance execution with business priorities.
Responsibilities
- Lead and manage a team of alliance professionals:
- Build team capability and best practices for alliance management across discovery, preclinical, and early clinical stages.
- Own a portfolio of complex partnerships across discovery to early clinical stages
- Design and drive alliance governance structures (e.g., JSC, JDC, JRC), chair or co-chair high‑level governance forums as needed and ensure consistent escalation to senior leadership.
- Maintain and communicate integrated timelines, milestone trackers, and cross‑program dependency maps
- Own a portfolio of complex partnerships across discovery to early clinical stages; ensure strategic alignment with senior leadership.
- Maintain and communicate integrated timelines, milestone trackers, and cross‑program dependency maps; anticipate integration points and drive outcomes.
- Identify program risks, technical or operational gaps, and lead scenario planning and mitigation strategies with internal and external teams.
- Lead alliance budget and resource planning in partnership with Finance and Legal; provide recommendations on budget allocation and tradeoffs.
- Act as a senior partner to TA/Project Leadership, Discovery, Clinical, Legal, Innovation, and Finance; present alliance status and recommendations to senior/executive leadership.
Requirements
- Demonstrated, hands-on knowledge of drug development and early-stage R&D processes.
- Strong track record of leading complex, multi-stakeholder collaborations and delivering across scientific and operational objectives.
Nice to have
- Prior experience managing teams or functional leaders responsible for Discovery/Preclinical/Phase 1 alliances, ideally in oncology or related Therapeutic Area.
- Proficiency with portfolio and project management tools and alliance-management metrics.
- Track record of influencing senior stakeholders and shaping strategy through data-driven recommendations.
- Travel: Moderate travel may be required to meet with partners or internal teams.
- primary affiliation with Spring House, PA.
- Required Skills:
- Preferred Skills:
- ensure strategic alignment with senior leadership.
Skills
- Alliance Management, Early Drug Development, Oncology Drug Development
Benefits
- At Johnson & Johnson, we believe health is everything.
- Our strength in healthcare innovation empowers us to build a world where complex diseases are prevented, treated, and cured, where treatments are smarter and less invasive, and solutions are personal.
Company info
- Our expertise in Innovative Medicine is informed and inspired by patients, whose insights fuel our science-based advancements.
- Visionaries like you work on teams that save lives by developing the medicines of tomorrow.
- Our Oncology team is focused on the elimination of cancer by discovering new pathways and modalities to finding treatments and cures.
- We lead where medicine is going and need innovators with an unwavering commitment to results.
- Join us in developing treatments, finding cures, and pioneering the path from lab to life while championing patients every step of the way.
- Learn more at https://www.jnj.com/innovative-medicine
- Johnson & Johnson is recruiting for a Director, Early Portfolio Alliance Management & Operations.
- Remote work options may be considered on a case-by-case basis and if approved by the Company.
- Role Overview
- In this leadership role, the individual is responsible for the strategic and operational management of a portfolio of discovery-to-early-clinical strategic alliances and external collaborations, while also providing leadership and oversight to a team of Alliance Managers.
- In addition to managing and developing the Alliance Management function, the role maintains direct accountability for select high-priority alliances, serving as the primary alliance lead and strategic partner to internal and external stakeholders.
- The position drives cross-functional integration across scientific, clinical, legal, external innovation, and finance teams to ensure successful execution of partnership objectives.
- At Johnson & Johnson, we respect the diversity and dignity of our employees and recognize their merit.
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