Senior Alliance Manager

Caris Life Sciences

1d•$145,000 - $175,000

About The Position

At Caris, we understand that cancer is an ugly word—a word no one wants to hear, but one that connects us all. That’s why we’re not just transforming cancer care—we’re changing lives. We introduced precision medicine to the world and built an industry around the idea that every patient deserves answers as unique as their DNA. Backed by cutting-edge molecular science and AI, we ask ourselves every day: “What would I do if this patient were my mom?” That question drives everything we do. But our mission doesn’t stop with cancer. We're pushing the frontiers of medicine and leading a revolution in healthcare—driven by innovation, compassion, and purpose. Join us in our mission to improve the human condition across multiple diseases. If you're passionate about meaningful work and want to be part of something bigger than yourself, Caris is where your impact begins. Position Summary The Senior Alliance Manager is the ambassador of the Partner-Caris alliance, driving Caris to be recognized as biopharma partner of choice. This professional owns execution, delivery, and relationship management of programs with Caris’ biopharma and biotech partners, maximizing the value of the partnerships. They collaborate with business development, clinical operations, data science, and other departments bridging and uniting independent functions to align efforts, foster communication, streamline decision-making, and optimize resources, ensuring the alliance achieves its objectives. Their responsibilities and influence span multiple business lines at Caris relevant to biopharma and the betterment of patient care such as molecular profiling, CDx, real-world data, trials enrollment, precision alerts, and target discovery. This position requires developing a strong understanding of Caris’ unique capabilities and applying them to address real-world needs for biopharma to enhance research and development, identify novel targets, expand indications, improve commercial efficiency, and accelerate clinical trial success.

Requirements

6 years of combined education and/or professional experience in one or more of the following domains: molecular biology, clinical molecular diagnostics, or oncology, managing multimodal RWD relationships or repositories, development or discovery, clinical research or study management, product management, companion diagnostics projects, or implementing projects or delivery in healthcare.
Ability to travel up to 20%.
Proficient in Microsoft Office Suite, specifically Word, Excel, Outlook, and general working knowledge of Internet for business use.

Nice To Haves

Working knowledge of applicable regulatory and quality frameworks (e.g., CLIA, CAP, GMP, GCP, IVDR, HIPAA) and how they impact day-to-day operations and deliverables.
Experience delivering—or partnering to deliver—oncology offerings, laboratory services, therapeutic programs, healthcare data products, or clinical-trial enrollment solutions.

Responsibilities

Manage a portfolio of alliances.
Strategic value and alliance health: Conduct due diligence to gain a thorough understanding of the partner’s organization, objectives, and value drivers. Lead periodic health checks. Execute annual operating plans aligned with corporate objectives.
Contract management: Guide internal project teams with respect to opportunities and constraints arising from partnership agreements. Ensure project aims, deliverables, and objectives are met.
Delivery: Lead a prescriptive delivery, gathering partner requirements, and making recommendations about the provisioning of Caris solutions. Direct delivery team from program inception to completion of final deliverables, ensuring high quality execution of alliance commitments. Align business needs to workstream deliverables, managing timeline and technical performance. Communicate prioritization, organize team activities, escalate potential roadblocks, and track to program goals.
Process management: Establish smooth operations, preparation of governance meetings and decision-making. Lead partner implementations in a way that exceeds partner expectations and meets timelines.
Alignment and relationship management: Shepherd intra- and inter-company alignment and communication; Lead efforts for increased mutual understanding and trust. Drive continuous improvement of the alliance. Enhance and redesign governance. Identify incremental expansion opportunities. Serve as an internal solution and process SME for expansion, validating feasibility, risks, and timelines.
Proactive risk management: Identify and communicate partner needs. Lead mitigation plan.
Demonstrate strong competency in Caris’s solutions and effectively communicate the value of Caris’ offerings to provide best practice recommendations to our partners and tailor delivery to their needs.
Build, maintain and help expand strong customer relationships through partner focus, professional demeanor, reliability, and responsiveness.
Execute according to implementation and relationship management best practices and mentor colleagues. Contribute to continuous process improvement and pilot improvements.
Provide account-level forecasting inputs: update deliverable dates, sample volumes, risks, and assumptions.