Global Alliance Management Lead, Director
About The Position
The Global Alliance Management Lead is responsible for maximizing value and minimizing risk across Takeda’s partnered alliance and licensee programs. The role provides leadership and actively manages a portfolio of alliances and licensees, establishes global best practices, and supports Takeda’s strategies and business plans. It also helps position Takeda as a preferred strategic partner and contributes to building the company’s capabilities in business partnering, alliance management, and execution. The role may support or lead assigned Global Business Development transactions, including in-licensing, acquisitions, divestments, externalizations, and renegotiations. Responsibilities can include providing strategic direction to deal teams, negotiating relevant terms and conditions, and managing internal and external executive stakeholders. The position leads the implementation of global alliance management and licensee management practices, and helps ensure individual partnerships are set up for success through tools, processes, strategies, and organizational capability development. The position is based in the Boston/Cambridge, Massachusetts area and is classified as hybrid under Takeda’s Hybrid and Remote Work policy. It requires less than 20% travel, including international trips.
Requirements
- Undergraduate degree in a relevant discipline.
- At least 8 years of experience in the biopharmaceutical industry across R&D, Marketing, Finance, Sales, Business Development & Licensing, or a related discipline.
- At least 4 years of experience in Alliance Management or a similar role working directly with alliance partners and as part of an alliance or account team.
- Direct pharmaceutical or biotechnology alliance and licensee management experience, including long-term partnerships, governance, dispute resolution, and negotiation or renegotiation of terms and conditions.
- Strong knowledge of the biopharmaceutical value chain and global product development and commercialization, including the ability to interpret contractual obligations, implications, and risks.
- Demonstrated success leading cross-functional, global teams and projects, including senior leaders, to achieve shared goals.
- Experience designing and implementing strategic initiatives that create organizational alignment, establish new capabilities, and support change in a fast-moving, matrixed environment.
- Strong influencing, negotiation, collaboration, interpersonal, and conflict-resolution skills, including diplomacy and cultural agility across functions, geographies, cultures, and levels without direct authority.
- Polished written, oral, presentation, and executive communication skills, including the ability to synthesize complex inputs, frame recommendations, and communicate sensitive issues clearly and persuasively.
- Strong judgment, analytical thinking, decision quality, and problem-solving skills; proactive, self-directed, entrepreneurial, and able to perform to high standards in a high-demand environment.
- Ability to travel less than 20%, including internationally.
Nice To Haves
- MBA or JD.
- Other advanced degree.
- Certificate of Achievement in Alliance Management (CAAM).
- Certified Strategic Alliance Professional (CSAP) certification.
- Management-level experience with increasing responsibility.
- Forecasting, planning, and financial experience.
- Experience facilitating multidisciplinary commercial teams.
Responsibilities
- Lead and manage a portfolio of global alliance and licensee partnerships to maximize value, minimize risk, and achieve strategic business objectives.
- Serve as the primary relationship leader for assigned partnerships, driving governance, issue resolution, contract compliance, and partnership performance.
- Develop and execute strategic and financial plans for alliance and licensee portfolios, including forecasting, revenue optimization, renegotiations, and market assessments.
- Lead or support business development transactions, including acquisitions, divestments, licensing activities, and contract renegotiations.
- Design, implement, and continuously improve alliance management processes, tools, training, and best practices across Takeda.
- Establish and oversee alliance governance structures, including joint committees, executive reviews, dispute resolution mechanisms, and partnership launch activities.
- Monitor contractual obligations, partnership health, risks, and performance metrics, and develop and implement mitigation plans as needed.
- Build internal and external stakeholder relationships and influence cross-functional teams to ensure successful execution of partnership objectives.
- Ensure alliance activities comply with Takeda policies, ethics, compliance standards, and evolving organizational requirements.
- Coach stakeholders, share best practices, and strengthen Takeda’s organizational partnering capabilities and alliance management culture.
- Support strategies and business plans of Takeda and help establish Takeda as a preferred strategic partner of choice.
- Provide strategic direction to deal teams, negotiate relevant terms and conditions, and manage internal and external executive-level stakeholders.
- Contribute to tools, processes, and strategies that build global and regional organizational capability for external partnerships.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Director
