Manager, Alliance Management

Manager, Alliance Management

Join a Legacy of Innovation 110 Years and Counting!

Daiichi Sankyo Group is dedicated to the creation and supply of innovative pharmaceutical therapies to improve standards of care and address diversified, unmet medical needs of people globally by leveraging our world-class science and technology. With more than 125 years of scientific expertise and a presence in more than 20 countries, Daiichi Sankyo and its 18,000 employees around the world draw upon a rich legacy of innovation and a robust pipeline of promising new medicines to help people. In addition to a strong portfolio of medicines for cardiovascular diseases, under the Group’s 2025 Vision to become a “Global Pharma Innovator with Competitive Advantage in Oncology,” Daiichi Sankyo is primarily focused on providing novel therapies in oncology, as well as other research areas centered around rare diseases and immune disorders.   

Job Summary:

The Manager, Alliance Management is responsible for the support of the relationship and management of CRO/Vendor (s) to ensure the successful delivery of clinical trials and programs. This position includes support in on-boarding new vendors, support of day-to-day portfolio activities to shape and achieve the strategic objectives, and, overall, ensuring the highest quality CRO/vendor relationship possible. This level resolves relationship conflicts and solves problems with supervision, seeking guidance for non-routine decisions.

Responsibilities:

Support of CRO/Vendor relationship(s), including third party contracted vendors:

• Support relationship oversight and governance to ensure the highest quality delivery of clinical programs. Support of Associate Director/Director, Alliance Management for the lifecycle management of CROs/Vendors including standards and relationship development of new CRO/Vendor relationships, maintenance of existing relationships as well as the retirement of CRO-DS relationships. Manages assigned escalated study and portfolio level issues to resolution with supervision. Assist and support in development/maintenance of engagement plans (charter, manuals, handbooks, playbooks, governance plans, templates, etc.)

• Support governance meetings with CRO/vendors. May be delegated meeting administration, dissemination of Minutes/Actions from meetings and necessarily follow up in collaboration with CRO/Vendor.

• Collaborate with clinical study teams and other functions to ensure clear roles and responsibilities, points of contact and process excellence.

• Provide support and contribute to the success of the study teams in relation to CRO/Vendor performance.

• Identifies potential portfolio risks and escalates to management. Management of DSI CRO/Vendor Ways of Working documentation ensuring, at minimum, annual updates and related change management activities. Management of DSI-owned CRO/Vendor Partnership SharePoint sites including set up, user maintenance and content. Management of DS Alliance Management SharePoint.

• Own and/or support Master DS SOP list and Curriculum. Own and/or support CRO SOP list and curriculum.

• Collaborate with Alliance Management colleagues on special projects to improve GCO Alliance Management ways of working (GCO AM Handbook, monthly newsletters, communications, OneNote maintenance, etc.) Possible assignment and accountability of CRO/Vendor to gain experience as Alliance Manager.

Communication/Relationship Management:

• Internal and External Stakeholders Influence various business units (globally as well as outside of RD) to ensure consistency and support for the CRO/Vendor relationship. Regularly communicate cross functionally and engage with key internal stakeholders (includes, but not limited to Clinical Operations, Clinical Science, Clinical Development, Procurement, Legal, QA/RA, Biostatistics and Data Management and IT) to proactively gather decisions, changes and updates that have downstream effects across studies. This involves support of regular meetings with key stakeholders to gather this information proactively and cascade appropriately to internal and external stakeholders cross-functionally to ensure holistic awareness. Support Communication and Escalation pathways for appropriate functions. Support working group meetings, drive decision making/alignment, drive enterprise solution orientation. Facilitation and support of internal meetings, if delegated.

Metrics and Overall CRO/Vendor Health:

• Support and champion process optimization between CRO/Vendors including Standards and Templates, to be used across the collaborations. Contribute to KPI /metric development in collaboration with Strategic Vendor Oversight role. In collaboration with appropriate functional roles (including Strategic Vendor Oversight role), review and communicate CRO/Vendor performance at various forums. Support and collaborate with AD, Alliance Management to address areas of concern and provide recommendations to mitigate against CRO poor performance and drive performance and enhancement of overall CRO/Vendor Health. Support corrective action plans to address deficiencies. Participate in/influence/facilitate constructive change by conducting ongoing lessons learned and identifying areas of improvement to support overall CRO/Vendor Health and sharing findings with appropriate stakeholders/team leadership.

Qualifications: Successful candidates will be able to meet the qualifications below with or without a reasonable accommodation.

Education:

• Bachelor's Degree required Experience Qualifications

• 4 or More Years 5 or more years pharmaceutical industry experience or commensurate education/experience. preferred

• 1 or more years vendor relationship management experience, and an understanding of pharmaceutical development, project management and new product planning. preferred

Travel:

• Ability to travel up to 10% For team meetings, conferences, and to support inspections, as appropriate.

Daiichi Sankyo, Inc. is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, color, religion, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, age, or any other characteristic protected by law.