Senior Director, Alliance Management

Harmony Biosciences Llc•Plymouth Meeting, PA

6d•Onsite

About The Position

Harmony Biosciences is recruiting for a Senior Director, Alliance Management in our Plymouth Meeting location. The Senior Director, Alliance Management is a senior leader within the Business Development (BD) department responsible for leading the strategy, governance, and execution of key strategic partnerships with Harmony counterparties. This role oversees active and potential new collaborations across clinical development, CMC/manufacturing, commercialization, licensing, co-development, co-commercialization, and external innovation partnerships. The position reports to the EVP, Chief Strategy Officer, and serves as a key liaison between external partners and internal stakeholders across Business Development, R&D, Clinical Development, Regulatory, CMC, Quality, Medical Affairs, Commercial, Finance, Legal, and Program Management. The role is responsible for maximizing partnership value by ensuring disciplined governance, clear communication, effective issue resolution, proactive risk management, and execution of contractual obligations and strategic objectives across the alliance lifecycle. In addition, this role will work collaboratively with BD colleagues in activities such as partner engagement and transition from deal execution to alliance launch. Responsibilities include but are not limited to: Alliance Management Leadership Serve as the primary alliance lead for assigned biotech/pharma collaborations, including licensing agreements, research collaborations, clinical development partnerships, co-development and co-commercialization arrangements, manufacturing or CMC partnerships, and platform or external innovation alliances. Establish and manage alliance governance structures, including joint steering committees, joint development committees, operating teams, meeting cadences, agendas, minutes, decision logs, action trackers, and escalation pathways. Monitor alliance performance, development timelines, milestone achievements, budgets, risk registers, decision points, contractual obligations, and partner commitments; provide regular updates and recommendations to executive leadership. Governance, Communication, and Issue Resolution Partner with Business Development, Legal, Finance, R&D, Clinical Development, Regulatory, CMC, Quality, Medical Affairs, Commercial, Program Management, and other functional leaders to ensure alliance commitments, milestones, deliverables, and contractual obligations are clearly understood and executed. Facilitate internal alignment before partner engagement, ensuring positions, recommendations, governance materials, and decision requests are consistent with corporate strategy and program priorities. Anticipate and resolve alliance issues diplomatically, balancing scientific, clinical, operational, regulatory, commercial, financial, and partner considerations while preserving strong long-term relationships. Business Development Support Based on Harmony’s current needs, this role will work across both alliance management and BD. For the Business Development portion of the role, the Alliance Manager will contribute to business development activities focusing on partner landscaping and cross-functional evaluation of potential collaborations, including other activities as needed, such as supporting opportunity assessment, strategic fit analysis, preliminary diligence, term sheet input, and transaction planning. When Harmony’s alliances grow in number and/or complexity, this role will then focus exclusively on the alliance management duties. Partner with the EVP, Chief Strategy Officer and the Business Development team to identify, evaluate, expand, optimize, or strengthen partnerships aligned with corporate strategy, pipeline priorities, portfolio goals, and external innovation objectives. Once alliance management duties become exclusive, support alliance launch and onboarding activities after transaction execution, including communication plans, stakeholder mapping, operating models, role clarity, governance charters, obligation tracking, and transition from deal team to operating alliance team. External Representation and Alliance Operations Lead preparation for governance meetings, executive briefings, alliance reviews, partner updates, due diligence discussions, and internal decision-making forums. Represent the organization externally with professionalism, credibility, and sound judgment at partner meetings, scientific and industry conferences, investor-related forums, and strategic partnership discussions.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree required; Master’s degree is preferred
8+ years of experience required in clinical research in the pharmaceutical/research industry leading complex clinical research deliverables in a multi-disciplinary, cross-functional environment
Experience in more than one therapeutic area is required
Working knowledge of legal, compliance, and regulatory guidelines related to conduct of late-phase trials in the US and globally
Analytical skills, quick perception and excellent judgment; able to identify risks and problems, to develop adequate problem-solving strategies even in complex situations, and to take appropriate measures when required.
Considers quality and attention to detail as fundamental and necessary attributes of all output and patient safety as an overarching responsibility
Strategic problem-solver with ability to identify appropriate solutions
Effective written and verbal communication skills
Proficient in the use of Microsoft Office Suite

Responsibilities

Serve as the primary alliance lead for assigned biotech/pharma collaborations, including licensing agreements, research collaborations, clinical development partnerships, co-development and co-commercialization arrangements, manufacturing or CMC partnerships, and platform or external innovation alliances.
Establish and manage alliance governance structures, including joint steering committees, joint development committees, operating teams, meeting cadences, agendas, minutes, decision logs, action trackers, and escalation pathways.
Monitor alliance performance, development timelines, milestone achievements, budgets, risk registers, decision points, contractual obligations, and partner commitments; provide regular updates and recommendations to executive leadership.
Partner with Business Development, Legal, Finance, R&D, Clinical Development, Regulatory, CMC, Quality, Medical Affairs, Commercial, Program Management, and other functional leaders to ensure alliance commitments, milestones, deliverables, and contractual obligations are clearly understood and executed.
Facilitate internal alignment before partner engagement, ensuring positions, recommendations, governance materials, and decision requests are consistent with corporate strategy and program priorities.
Anticipate and resolve alliance issues diplomatically, balancing scientific, clinical, operational, regulatory, commercial, financial, and partner considerations while preserving strong long-term relationships.
Contribute to business development activities focusing on partner landscaping and cross-functional evaluation of potential collaborations, including other activities as needed, such as supporting opportunity assessment, strategic fit analysis, preliminary diligence, term sheet input, and transaction planning.
Partner with the EVP, Chief Strategy Officer and the Business Development team to identify, evaluate, expand, optimize, or strengthen partnerships aligned with corporate strategy, pipeline priorities, portfolio goals, and external innovation objectives.
Support alliance launch and onboarding activities after transaction execution, including communication plans, stakeholder mapping, operating models, role clarity, governance charters, obligation tracking, and transition from deal team to operating alliance team.
Lead preparation for governance meetings, executive briefings, alliance reviews, partner updates, due diligence discussions, and internal decision-making forums.
Represent the organization externally with professionalism, credibility, and sound judgment at partner meetings, scientific and industry conferences, investor-related forums, and strategic partnership discussions.