Associate Academic Alliance Manager
Support AZ R&D China to form collaboration with: 1) academic research institutes/ clinical centres and 2) AZ Global R&D Alliance. The scope will include contracting shaping and completion, prioritization of collaboration projects, and support & monitoring of projects. The therapeutic areas will cover Oncology, cardiovascular diseases, respiratory diseases, auto-immune disorders, metabolic diseases, and rare diseases.
Major responsibilities
- Prepare and organize contract documents.
- Understand and administer contracts to ensure the obligations and responsibilities are met in a timely, accurate, effective, and compliant manner.
- Negotiating, developing and revising contracts and manage study related budgets.
- Ensuring any changes are integrated into the main study contract efficiently and accurately.
- Closely work with internal project team to ensure negotiations occur within timelines.
- Project managing the contracting process, ensuring timely execution of contracts
- Measuring and assessing payment claims. Ensuring invoices are approved and paid.
- Manage the resolution of contract inconsistencies and/ or changes in terms and conditions via coordinated discussions.
- Working closely with project teams to determine appropriate terms and conditions of study contracts
- Report on periodic bases on contractual performance
- Document and track study activities and archive study related documentation
- Achieve operational excellence and increase the visibility of the China alliance activities and the impacts they generated
- Monitor all alliance related activities and lead joint teams in resolving issues regarding effective communication, conflict or role clarification. Pro-actively anticipate risks and needs and identify optimal solutions to aligned with the Oncology Leadership strategy
- Responding to external inquiries and identifying the right internal stakeholders to address questions
- Run external engagement events including scientific exchanges
- Prepare and deliver external presentations; work with internal project and portfolio teams to gather presentation
Minimum Requirements and Preferred Background
- Advanced degree in science with >3 years’ experience in pharmaceutical industry
- Knowledge of drug development strategy and process
- Fluent in spoken and written English
- Project management experience and capability, proven experience in alliance/ partnership/ transaction excellence; experience building, maintaining and closing partnerships
- Ability to understand integrated regional and local delivery needs
- Ability to travel nationally and internationally based on business needs
- Willingness to work in a global team environment across multiple time zones
Competencies and Skills
- Demonstrated results-focus and ability to deliver projects through lateral influence, relationship management negotiation and facilitation
- Demonstrated capability and experience to work in a multi-cultural environment
- Strong commercial and business acumen
- Ability to operate in a multidisciplinary environment and across companies and with sensitivity and flexibility in an organizational matrix of project and line management
- Ability to assess issues/risks and effectively implement remediation measurements
- Well-developed cultural sensitivity to influence the beliefs, opinions and behaviors of key customers
AstraZeneca embraces diversity and equality of opportunity. We are committed to building an inclusive and diverse team representing all backgrounds, with as wide a range of perspectives as possible, and harnessing industry-leading skills. We believe that the more inclusive we are, the better our work will be. We welcome and consider applications to join our team from all qualified candidates, regardless of their characteristics. We comply with all applicable laws and regulations on non-discrimination in employment (and recruitment), as well as work authorisation and employment eligibility verification requirements.
