Associate Director, External Growth and Innovation

Biogen • Cambridge, MA

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About The Position

The Associate Director, External Growth & Innovation executes strategic partnerships across the healthcare ecosystem to create value for Biogen, patient communities, and customers. The role identifies and evaluates partnership opportunities and leads collaborations from contracting through implementation across therapeutic areas within Biogen North America. It works across a complex, cross-functional commercial organization and builds relationships with external partners to turn innovative ideas into impactful, scalable solutions, informed by evolving market dynamics and business priorities. As part of a small, agile team, the role reports to the Senior Director, External Growth & Innovation.

The position leads partnership initiatives from planning and agreement support through execution, evaluation, and scale-up. It advises Therapeutic Area teams on partnership opportunities, monitors U.S. healthcare developments, develops business cases, and establishes performance measures to demonstrate value and guide decisions.

Biogen describes itself as a global, mid-sized biotechnology company that combines the stability and resources of an established business with opportunities for individual impact, learning, growth, and skill development. The company emphasizes inclusion and belonging and its mission of delivering life-changing medicines.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree required.
• At least 8 years of progressive experience in the healthcare industry, including healthcare consulting and/or commercial biopharmaceutical experience.
• Strong understanding of the U.S. healthcare ecosystem, including key stakeholders, market dynamics, and evolving industry trends.
• Working knowledge of emerging healthcare technologies and innovations, including applying artificial intelligence (AI) to enhance business outcomes.
• Demonstrated ability to lead through change, ambiguity, and organizational transformation.
• Proven ability to manage complex cross-functional programs involving multiple workstreams, diverse stakeholder groups, and competing priorities.
• Exceptional communication and influencing skills, including the ability to convey complex ideas clearly and concisely to senior leaders and key organizational stakeholders.
• Strong project management, strategic thinking, and problem-solving capabilities, with a focus on measurable results.
• Strategic thinking, organization, attention to detail, relationship-building, disciplined management of priorities and timelines, and consistent follow-through.

Nice To Haves

• MBA or other advanced degree.

Responsibilities

• Lead strategic partnership initiatives by developing workplans, defining milestones, managing dependencies, and proactively mitigating risks.
• Coordinate and influence cross-functional teams and external partners, provide leadership updates, and support partnership agreement negotiations with Legal, Compliance, and Procurement.
• Drive partnership programs from pilot to scale, using performance data and insights to recommend expansion, optimization, or sunset decisions.
• Build and maintain relationships with strategic partners and advocate internally for partnership investments and their long-term success.
• Advise Therapeutic Area teams on partnership opportunities that address unmet needs, remove barriers, and accelerate growth.
• Monitor U.S. healthcare market trends, emerging care models, and ecosystem developments to identify high-impact collaboration opportunities.
• Develop partnership business cases by evaluating strategic alignment, potential impact, scalability, feasibility, and investment requirements.
• Establish and track KPIs to measure partnership effectiveness, inform decisions, and demonstrate business value.

Benefits

• Medical insurance
• Dental insurance
• Vision insurance
• Life insurance
• Fitness and wellness programs, including fitness reimbursement
• Short- and long-term disability insurance
• At least 15 days of paid vacation
• End-of-year shutdown time off from December 26 through December 31
• Up to 12 company-paid holidays
• Three paid days off for Personal Significance
• 80 hours of sick time per calendar year
• Paid maternity and parental leave
• 401(k) program with company-matched contributions
• Employee stock purchase plan
• Tuition reimbursement of up to $10,000 per calendar year
• Employee Resource Groups participation
• Short-term cash bonus and long-term equity incentive opportunities for eligible regular employees

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Manager