What if…we could harness the power of multiple Flagship platforms and create novel treatment options that benefit more patients, sooner?

Pioneering Medicines (PM) is focused on conceiving and developing a unique portfolio of life-changing treatments for patients by leveraging the innovative scientific platforms and technologies within the ecosystem of Flagship Pioneering companies. Each of our medicines programs leverages one of Flagship’s bioplatforms.  

More than 40 companies across the Flagship ecosystem are creating and applying innovative approaches to help address major health and sustainability issues. Given the broad applicability of many Flagship platforms, there is a tremendous opportunity to expand the reach of these scientific innovations by creating medicines in disease areas where the companies are not focused. With access to these Flagship companies, PM is well positioned to conceive new medicine ideas both internally and to co-create new medicines in collaboration with our strategic partners.  We also have the unique ability to combine these platforms, harnessing the power of multiple Flagship scientific innovations to create truly novel medicines.

By identifying and pursuing opportunities earlier than the platform companies could focus on them and advancing these medicines through a robust discovery and early clinical development capability, PM can reach patients across more disease areas much sooner than the individual platform companies could on their own.

PM at a Glance:

• 11 ongoing programs (discovery through early clinical stages), leveraging novel Flagship bioplatforms
• Highly experienced and successful R&D leadership team
• 90+ team members
• 55,000 sq. ft. Lab/Office Space in Cambridge, MA
• 3 ongoing Strategic Partnerships  

• Pfizer/Flagship Alliance: co-create 10 single-asset programs within Pfizer’s core strategic areas of interest; PM manages Alliance, drives exploration process, and is responsible for R&D strategy and activities through Phase 1 or Phase 2 
• Novo Nordisk: committed to 3-5 research programs within the first 3 years of the collaboration; focus is obesity and other cardiometabolic diseases
• Cystic Fibrosis Foundation: committed up to $110M to bring forward novel treatments for patients using two different nucleic acid technologies 

Position Summary:

Effective alliance management is critical to our success.  While our model enables unconstrained scientific creativity, every program in the pipeline is co-created with one or more Flagship platform companies, and roughly half of the pipeline has a third party, a pharmaceutical partner. 

In this important role, you will create and lead our Alliance Management function within Pioneering Medicines. You will develop and manage strategies for alliances and engage in joint operational and collaboration decisions.  This is an opportunity to shape and achieve the strategic objectives of the alliances, establishing clear communication lines across the partnerships, anticipating and resolving potential issues, providing input into ancillary agreements and amendments and overall ensuring the highest quality relationship.  You must be willing to embrace Flagship’s approach to innovation, able to understand the motivations and incentives of our partners, bring outstanding skills in building relationships with C-level leaders, and have the capacity to do so across a dozen or more early-stage platform companies and several large pharmaceutical partners.  This position reports to Pioneering Medicines COO and serves on the Operating Committee.

Key Responsibilities:

• Establish alliance management function within Pioneering Medicines, build a team, and lead and manage through complexity and uncertainty within Flagship’s approach to innovation, culture, and business model 
• Manage “internal” relationships with Flagship bioplatforms, together with program management, project leadership, and our leadership teams
• Manage “external” alliances and relationships with pharmaceutical company partners
• Bring comprehensive understanding of alliance partnerships, serving as our expert on partner dynamics and the overall state of the partner relationship
• Map out our relationship management strategies.  Serve as alliance’s point of contact for C-level executives and, with PM leaders, ensure strategic and executional alignment 
• Play a key role in forming and sustaining our R&D project teams – to be single unified teams with our partners within the Flagship model
• Collaborate closely with internal stakeholders, including R&D program teams and leadership, BD, Legal and Finance to ensure perspectives are incorporated into the alliance agreement
• Direct specific alliance governance activities; implement Alliance Management programmatic processes and tools appropriate to the scope and needs 
• Openly, proactively, and clearly communicate across all lines of the partnership including senior leadership of Flagship and Pioneering Medicines
• Monitor the progress of the contractual obligations and milestones and effectively monitor the health of the alliance/partnership
• Be well versed in industry trends and alliance management best practices

Qualifications:

• 15+ years of overall industry experience; must have experience working for or closely with earlier stage biotech companies
• 7+ years of alliance experience within the biopharma industry
• Experience building and maintaining relationships with senior leadership and project teams across cultures and organizations
• Ability to communicate business topics, understand incentives, and influence effectively
• Experience in building functional expertise and managing a team
• Demonstrated ability to drive resolution of conflict and exercise diplomacy
• Experience reviewing and negotiating contractual and legal terms
• Ability and willingness to manage through high degree of complexity and uncertainty
• Strong drug discovery and development knowledge and expertise
• Advanced scientific degree (PhD or MS) strongly preferred

Flagship Pioneering and our ecosystem companies are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status.

Recruitment & Staffing Agencies:  Flagship Pioneering and its affiliated Flagship Lab companies (collectively, “FSP”) do not accept unsolicited resumes from any source other than candidates.  The submission of unsolicited resumes by recruitment or staffing agencies to FSP or its employees is strictly prohibited unless contacted directly by Flagship Pioneering’s internal Talent Acquisition team.   Any resume submitted by an agency in the absence of a signed agreement will automatically become the property of FSP, and FSP will not owe any referral or other fees with respect thereto.

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