Associate Director, Alliance Management Operations

Associate Director, Alliance Management Operations

Waltham, Massachusetts

At Kailera, we are bold, authentic and committed to our mission of developing therapies that give people the power to transform their lives and elevate their overall health. Rooted in an entrepreneurial spirit and a team-oriented culture, we are working together to advance Kailera’s mission to advance novel therapies for obesity and related conditions. We are passionate about creating an inclusive workplace that promotes collaboration, integrity, and excellence.

As we expand, we seek the most talented individuals with diverse backgrounds, cultures, perspectives, and experiences to join our team.

We are seeking a creative, self-starting, and entrepreneurial Associate Director of Alliance Management Operations to be a driving force behind Kailera’s optimization of corporate alliances. You will own the process for implementing and managing alliance management playbooks, systems, and tools to collect, input, track, and optimize the wealth of alliance management information across R&D, CMC, and G&A functions from both our company and our alliance partner(s).

The reports and outputs will directly influence alliance management strategy, drive seamless partnership execution, and inform our strategic decisions across the organization. This key role reports to the Senior Director of Alliance Management. This is a team where you can thrive while feeling respected, bringing your ideas and collaborative personality to produce high‑quality results for the alliance management team and overall business.

Required location:
Waltham, MA (hub‑based, onsite 3‑4 days per week)

• Implement our Alliance Management Operations systems, playbooks, and reporting, while operationalizing department strategy
• Collaborate effectively with Kailera functional leaders, Partner’s alliance management team, and SaaS vendor to collect, input, and optimize the information necessary to build and manage comprehensive alliance management dashboards for the functional leaders and executive leadership team
• Inform the organization of enterprise risks, opportunities, and inflection points related to alliance management
• Champion alliance management best practices across the organization to ensure an insight‑driven way of working and decision making
• Operationalize alliance governance and working group meetings, including meeting scheduling, agenda, and slides preparation with the alliance partner, meeting minutes, and tracking actions, decisions, issues
• Alliance management records management and other general alliance management operational tasks

• 3+ years of experience in alliance management or partnership operations, business development operations, R&D or Commercial operations, or top‑tier consulting within the USA biopharma or biotech industry
• 8+ years of overall progressive experience in the life sciences industry or other relevant experience
• A creative operations leader who has a sharp sense for data collection, tracking, and reporting. Excels at storytelling using information, personal knowledge, and data. Ability to create dashboards and reports for functional and executive leadership
• The ability to work independently and successfully in a matrix environment, prioritize and manage multiple projects and tasks simultaneously, and thrive in a dynamic environment
• Demonstrated expertise having integrated organizational or cross‑functional information into systems and tools to input, track, manage, report, and optimize the operations of a program, department, or company
• Expert‑level proficiency in analytical skills, information technology, and project management, as well as in Microsoft Powerpoint and Sharepoint
• Demonstrated quality of experience leveraging AI to drive business operations
• Knowledge of the drug development process, particularly late‑stage development, to enable meaningful dialogue with internal stakeholders and external partners
• Comfortability and understanding of contractual terminology related to legal, business development, and/or licensing
• Highly motivated, entrepreneurial individual, with an ability and…