Job description

Title: Project Manager - MRL ONLY (Alliance manager)

Job ID: 33920

Location: North Wales, PA 19454/ Rahway NJ

Duration: 6 Months

Qualifications:

“Actual Job Title: Alliance manager”,

Education Minimum Requirement:

• Bachelor’s degree required; concentration in a scientific or applied discipline preferred

Required Experience and Skills:

• A minimum of 5 years’ experience in the biotech/pharmaceutical industry

• A minimum of 1 year in an engagement, alliance management or equivalent relationship management role

• Broad understanding of global pharmaceutical and biotech industries with a solid understanding of drug discovery and development processes

• Demonstrated leadership and ethics, including ability to hold others accountable for delivery

• Demonstrated ability to work effectively in a team setting, including experience building and leading teams, accomplishing goals, etc.

• Strong collaboration and problem-solving skills; ability to establish good working relationships with internal and external colleagues at all levels, resolve conflict and provide feedback, and devise and implement creative solutions to problems

• Strong communication skills, both oral and written; demonstrated ability to speak up appropriately and to raise issues to teams and management

• Highly organized and capable of working with attention to detail.

• Able to relate project and alliance details to larger project and alliance objectives.

Preferred Experience and Skills:

• Advanced degree (MBA, MS, PhD or equivalent)

• Experience in understanding and interpretation of contractual language

• Experience in implementing and improving business processes

Required Travel:

• Yes, up to 5-10%

*Note*: This is Hybrid role (1-2days/week onsite), This position may be based in Rahway NJ, Upper Gwynedd PA, or Philadelphia PA.

Responsibilities:

GPAM MRL Alliance Management- Senior Specialist (P3) Position Description

• Global Project and Alliance Management (GPAM) resides within the Research and Development (R&D) organization at Merck (Merck Research Laboratories, or MRL).

• The Project, Portfolio and Alliance Managers in GPAM are core members of cross-functional discovery, development, and alliance teams responsible for discovering and developing products that improve human health.

• In addition, GPAM includes a Project Management Office (PMO), which is responsible for the development, sustainment, and training of GPAM-owned systems, tools, and business processes that serve MRL more broadly.

• The GPAM MRL Alliance Managers focus on achieving the goals of the alliance by ensuring activities, resources, communications, and decisions are coordinated and maximized with our R&D partners.

Position Description/Summary:

• Under the broad direction of the Director, Strategic Alliances, the Senior Specialist, Strategic Alliances is responsible for ensuring successful relationship and contractual management of R&D licenses and R&D alliances/collaborations that result from agreements executed by Corporate Business Development (Corp BD).

• In addition, the Senior Specialist, Strategic Alliances is responsible for developing and implementing critical cross-functional/cross-divisional business operation processes and initiatives involving the GPAM MRL Alliance Management team.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Manage a portfolio of R&D licenses. Responsibilities include:

o Organization of timely kick-off meeting planning and execution between Merck and its partners to ensure clarity on the agreement and communication mechanisms between the companies

o Providing each R&D licensing partner with an open and continuous channel of communication to ensure partner perspectives are heard and well represented internally

o Proactively identifying and resolving conflicts as needed, and/or raising conflicts and disputes to the Director, Strategic Alliances, appropriate management, or committees for timely resolution

o Interfacing closely with Corp BD and Legal groups to clarify contractual aspects of R&D licensing agreements with intent of providing guidance internally to team members and senior management to ensure appropriate boundaries are set and guide decision-making

o Supporting evolution of R&D licensing agreements through their life cycles, including negotiation/drafting of contractual amendments, and management of any necessary agreement terminations and close-out processes

o Working closely with Finance, Investor Relations, Public Affairs and partners to manage appropriate financial obligations and disclosures that may be material to Merck or its partners

o Maintaining a database that captures all current rights/obligations under portfolio of R&D licensing agreements

• Support R&D alliances/collaborations managed by Director/Associate Director, Strategic Alliances. Responsibilities include:

o Working with a Director or Associate Director, Strategic Alliances as well as internal stakeholders and joint teams, support the productive operational relationship between Merck and assigned R&D collaboration partners, including:

üEnsuring alliance governance is established and functions efficiently, consistent with agreement intent; ensure process is in place to facilitate timely, joint decision-making.

üPreparing for, facilitating and documenting outcomes of R&D alliance meetings, ensuring meetings have clear purposes and objectives, and that conflict is surfaced and resolved

üPreparing reports that summarize R&D collaboration status/issues and documents for senior management and alliance committees

• Support Alliance Management operations and business initiatives. Responsibilities include:

o Serving as process owner of critical cross functional/cross-divisional business operation processes and initiatives involving the GPAM MRL Alliance Management team

o Developing and implementing clear process guidance for the GPAM MRL Alliance Management team

o Defining key metrics to ensure GPAM MRL Alliance Management team’s compliance with the deliverables of the business processes and initiatives

Thanks & Regards

Vickey

Senior Pharma Recruitment Associate

Freyr, Inc.

150 College Road West, Suite 102, Princeton, NJ 08540

Phone: (732) 707-2456

www.freyrsolutions.com

Job Type: Contract

Pay: $85.00 - $90.00 per hour

Schedule:

• 8 hour shift

Work Location: Hybrid remote in North Wales, PA 19454

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