Associate Director, Alliance Manager

Position Summary:

Lead cross-functional projects spanning new business development transactions to existing strategic alliance partnerships. Provide alliance management expertise and maximize alliance performance including the effectiveness, value, and overall success for strategic partnerships. As the primary point of contact for strategic relationships, this person will actively manage alliance partner dynamics and complexities across geographic regions.

Essential Job Functions and Responsibilities:

These may include but are not limited to:

• Serve as alliance manager and lead day-to-day alliance activities, managing, and directing joint governance activities, and ensuring successful collaboration, initiation, and execution in connection with domestic and international development and clinical stage alliances.
• Establish trust and effective relationships with partners and between key internal and external team members.
• Ensure that roles, responsibilities, and obligations are understood and maintained between the parties.
• Support and lead as an alliance single point of contact, working closely with internal team members, senior leaders, and alliance counterparts to manage and advance aligned goals and deliverables, and overall health and success of the collaboration
• Oversee and support collaboration governance and operating norms (e.g. communication, decision-making, issue escalation, charters, and best practices) including forming, managing, and supporting joint committees and project teams.
• Ensure that alliance goals progress and meet or exceed pre-defined objectives and timelines.
• Develop a comprehensive understanding of alliance partners; serve as the internal Crinetics expert on the relevant contractual and business agreements, partner dynamics, and the overall state of the partner relationship.
• Proactively identify and resolve conflicts as needed or raise conflicts and disputes to appropriate management or committees for timely resolution while maintaining collaborative working relationships; ensure internal alignment prior to joint decisions.
• Ensure that strategies and decisions adopted by the governance committees are implemented and that plans/actions are consistent with contractual agreements.
• Proactively track, monitor and communicate contract achievements, obligations and any financial payments to Global Product Leaders and management, and partner with GPL to ensure that both Crinetics and its alliance partners are on track to meet contractual obligations and landmarks.
• Continuously seek opportunities to optimize and simplify decision-making to support effective alliance execution.
• Help to maximize the value of the partnership for both organizations by initiating routine assessment of partnership health and seeking business opportunities to advance predefined programs or expand beyond the current collaboration.
• Interface closely with business development and legal to clarify contractual aspects of collaboration agreements with the intent of providing guidance internally to team, committee members, and senior management to enhance the values of alliances, ensure appropriate boundaries are set and guide decision-making.
• Lead and support corporate-level initiatives under the guidance of the Chief of Staff to the COO.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure alignment and successful execution of corporate-level initiatives.

Education and Experience:

Required:

• Minimum Bachelor’s degree in science related field required, MBA or equivalent preferred.
• 12 years of industry experience with general knowledge of pharmaceutical operations, i.e., clinical development, regulatory, commercialization, manufacturing, and legal.
• Minimum of 1 year in engagement, partnership or alliance manager role. Experience with partnerships in Asia-Pacific region preferred.
• Highly collaborative, possess a track record of building and maintaining cross- functional relationships, and able to communicate business topics effectively with senior management and across cultures.
• Excellent business acumen with demonstrated ability to develop solutions that support product, team, corporate, and alliance objectives.
• Demonstrates poise in conflict situations, has the ability to keep an objective perspective, and exercise diplomacy in all interactions.
• Ability to work effectively across organizational levels, functions and geographic boundaries to complete objectives.
• Exceptional communication, interpersonal skills, and ability to build relationships.

Preferred:

• Broad business and pharmaceutical experience preferably both international and US with demonstrated ability to resolve conflict and exercise diplomacy in a range of situations.
• Previous cross-functional experience is desirable as this position requires a high degree of interaction with teams encompassing R&D Product Development, Manufacturing, Commercial, and Finance.

Physical Demands and Work Environment:

Physical Activities: On a continuous basis, sit at desk for a long period of time; intermittently answer telephone and write or use a keyboard to communicate through written means. Some walking and lifting up to 25 lbs. may be required. The noise level in the work environment is typically low to moderate. The physical demands described above are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions and responsibilities of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions and responsibilities.

Travel:

You may be required to travel for up to 30% of your time.

The Anticipated Base Salary Range: $172,000-$215,000

In addition to your base pay, our total rewards program consists of a discretionary annual target bonus, stock options, ESPP, and 401k match. We also provide top-notch health insurance plans for employees (and their families) to include medical, dental, vision and basic life insurance, 20 days of PTO, 10 paid holidays, and a winter company shutdown.

The final salary offered to a successful candidate will be dependent on several factors that may include but are not limited to the type and length of experience and education. Crinetics Pharmaceuticals is a multi-state employer, and this salary range may not reflect positions that work in other states. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range during the hiring process.

Equal Opportunity Employer:

Crinetics is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. We provide equal employment opportunities to all employees and employment applicants without regard to unlawful considerations of sex, sexual orientation, gender (including gender identity and/or expression), pregnancy, race, color, creed, national or ethnic origin, citizenship status, religion or similar philosophical beliefs, disability, marital and civil union status, age, genetic information, veteran status or any personal attribute or characteristic that is protected by applicable local, state or federal laws.

Vaccination requirement:

Following extensive monitoring, research, consideration of business implications, and advice from internal and external experts, Crinetics requires that all employees and contractors be fully vaccinated and have received the COVID-19 vaccines as a condition of employment. “Full vaccination” is defined as two weeks after both doses of a two-dose vaccine or two weeks since a single-dose vaccine has been administered. Anyone unable to be vaccinated, either because of a sincerely held religious belief or a medical condition or disability that prevents them from being vaccinated, can request a reasonable accommodation.

Salary : $172,000 - $215,000