Manage a portfolio of alliances.
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, escalate 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, and timelines.
Proactive risk management: Identify and communicate partner needs. Lead mitigation plan. Demonstrate strong competency in Caris’s solutions and effectively communicate the value of Caris’ offerings to provide best practice recommendations to our partners and tailor delivery to their needs.
Build, maintain and help expand strong customer relationships through partner focus, professional demeanor, reliability, and responsiveness.
Execute according to implementation and relationship management best practices and mentor colleagues.
Contribute to continuous process improvement and pilot improvements.
Provide account-level forecasting inputs: update deliverable dates, sample volumes, risks, and assumptions.

Requirements

6 years of combined education and/or professional experience in one or more of the following domains: molecular biology, clinical molecular diagnostics, or oncology, managing multimodal RWD relationships or repositories, development or discovery, clinical research or study management, product management, companion diagnostics projects, or implementing projects or delivery in healthcare.
Ability to travel up to 20%.
Proficient in Microsoft Office Suite, specifically Word, Excel, Outlook, and general working knowledge of Internet for business use.
Working knowledge of applicable regulatory and quality frameworks (e.g., CLIA, CAP, GMP, GCP, IVDR, HIPAA) and how they impact day-to-day operations and deliverables.
Experience delivering—or partnering to deliver—oncology offerings, laboratory services, therapeutic programs, healthcare data products, or clinical-trial enrollment solutions.

Benefits

Highly competitive and inclusive medical, dental and vision coverage options
Health Savings Account for medical expenses and dependent care expenses
Flexible Spending Account to pay for certain out-of-pocket expenses
Paid time off, including: vacation, sick time and holidays
401k match and Financial Planning tools
LTD and STD insurance coverages, as well as voluntary benefit options
Employee Assistance Program
Pet Insurance
Legal Assistance
Tuition Assistance

Applicant Tracking System Keywords

Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.

Hard skills

project managementcontract managementrisk managementprocess managementhealthcare deliveryclinical researchproduct managementdata analysispartner relationship managementcontinuous improvement

Soft skills

communicationleadershiporganizational skillsproblem-solvingteam collaborationcustomer relationship managementmentoringstrategic thinkingadaptabilityreliability

Certifications

CLIACAPGMPGCPIVDRHIPAA