Senior Alliance Manager; Remote

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The Senior Manager, Alliances is responsible for continuously improving implementation and partner relationship management best practices and driving Caris to be recognized as a biopharma partner of choice.

This professional owns and/or oversees execution, delivery, and relationship management of programs with Caris' biopharma and biotech partners, maximizing the value of partnerships. They collaborate with Caris Bio Partnering leaders to understand in-flight contractual discussions, ensure delivery of contractual obligations, and advise on feasible alternatives to drive successful client relationships.

This leader develops deep expertise in Caris' unique capabilities and applies that expertise—or allows a team to apply it—to address real-world needs for alliance decision-makers and biopharma partners. Their efforts support research and development activities, novel target identification, indication expansion, commercial efficiency, clinical trial enrollment and success, companion diagnostics, molecular profiling, real-world data initiatives, precision medicine programs, and target discovery.

The Senior Manager collaborates closely with Business Development, Clinical Operations, Data Science, R&D, Product Development, Operations, Regulatory, Marketing, IT, Lab Operations, and other cross-functional stakeholders to align efforts, foster communication, streamline decision-making, optimize resources, and ensure alliance objectives are achieved.

• Manage or oversee a portfolio of strategic alliances programs, including oversight and participation in the following:
• 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, elevate 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 resource requirements, and timelines.
• Proactive risk management:
  Identify, assess, and communicate partner needs, risks, and dependencies. Lead mitigation planning and issue…