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Job Description

Global Project and Alliance Management (GPAM) resides within the Research and Development (R&D) organization at our Company's Research & Development Division. The Project, Portfolio and Alliance Managers in GPAM are core members of cross-functional discovery, development, and alliance teams responsible for discovering and developing products that improve human health. In addition, GPAM includes a Project Management Office (PMO), which is responsible for the development, sustainment, and training of GPAM-owned systems, tools, and business processes that serve our Research & Development Division more broadly. The GPAM Research & Development Division Alliance Managers focus on achieving the goals of the alliance by ensuring activities, resources, communications, and decisions are coordinated and maximized with our R&D partners.

Position Description/Summary:

Under the broad direction of the Senior Director or Director, Strategic Alliances, the Associate Director, Strategic Alliances is responsible for ensuring successful relationship and contractual management of R&D licenses and R&D alliances/collaborations that result from agreements executed by Corporate Business Development (Corp BD). Responsibility includes engaging internal and partner leaders at all levels to maximally leverage assigned R&D stage alliances for both our Company's and its R&D partners.

This position may be based in either Rahway NJ, Upper Gwynedd PA, Boston MA, San Francisco CA, or Philadelphia PA.

Primary Responsibilities:

+ Participate in potential partner due diligence and/or late-stage negotiations to assess cultural fit, ensure understanding of strategic/critical issues, and provide input into governance/decision-making rights and relevant operational aspects of the agreement.

+ Take responsibility for organization of timely and seamless implementation of new alliances at the internal and joint team/governance committee levels through comprehensive kick-off meeting planning and execution.

+ Identify and align key stakeholders across internal and partner functions. Ensure alliance governance is established and functions efficiently, consistent with agreement intent. Enables joint research and development activities and timely decision-making, considering necessary linkages to our Company's senior management/governance mechanisms.

+ Proactively identify and resolve conflicts as needed or raise conflicts and dispute to appropriate management or committees for timely resolution.

+ Facilitate, manage, and oversee the scientific and operational relationship between our Company and assigned alliance partners to ensure a productive working environment.

+ Provide to each alliance partner an open and continuous channel of communication to ensure partner perspectives are heard and well represented internally.

+ Interface closely with the Corp BD and Transaction Legal groups to clarify contractual aspects of collaboration agreements with intent of providing guidance internally to team, committee members and senior management to enhance the value of alliances, ensure appropriate boundaries are set and guide decision-making.

+ Support evolution of alliances through their life cycles, including negotiation/drafting of contractual amendments, through management of any necessary agreement terminations.

+ Work closely with Finance, Investor Relation, Public Affairs and partners to manage appropriate financial obligations / disclosures material to our Company and/or its partners.

+ Contribute to goal of establishing our Research & Development Division Alliance Management as a learning organization by sharing lessons learned and best practices in alliance management within and across divisional alliance management areas.

+ Become our internal expert on the partner company by building a deep understanding of the company’s organization/leadership, strategies, financials, priorities, etc.

+ Participate in relevant partnering and/or Alliance Management conferences to represent our Company's Alliance Management, contribute to securing our Company’s reputation as a Partner of Choice and identify external best practices for internalization.

Education Minimum Requirement:

+ Bachelor’s degree required; concentration in a scientific or applied discipline preferred

Required Experience and Skills:

+ A minimum of 8 years’ experience in the biotech/pharmaceutical industry

+ A minimum of 2 years in an engagement and/or alliance manager role or equivalent relationship management role

+ Broad understanding of global pharmaceutical and biotech industries with a solid understanding of drug discovery and development processes.

+ Superior interpersonal skills and expert team player with ability to build and manage collaborative relationships at all levels inside and outside of the organization, specifically with senior management.

+ Demonstrated leadership and ethics, including ability to hold others accountable for delivery

+ Demonstrated ability to work effectively in a team setting, including experience building and leading teams, accomplishing goals, etc.

+ Strong collaboration and problem-solving skills; ability to establish good working relationships with internal and external colleagues at all levels, resolve conflict and provide feedback, and devise and implement creative solutions to problems

+ Strong communication skills, both oral and written; demonstrated ability to speak up appropriately and to raise issues to teams and management

+ Highly organized and capable of working with attention to detail. Able to relate project and alliance details to larger project and alliance objectives.

Preferred Experience and Skills:

+ Advanced degree (MBA, MS, PhD or equivalent)

+ Experience in understanding and interpretation of contractual language

Required Travel:

+ Yes, up to 25%

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Effective September 5, 2023, employees in office-based positions in the U.S. will be working a Hybrid work consisting of three total days on-site per week, Monday - Thursday, although the specific days may vary by site or organization, with Friday designated as a remote-working day, unless business critical tasks require an on-site presence.This Hybrid work model does not apply to, and daily in-person attendance is required for, field-based positions; facility-based, manufacturing-based, or research-based positions where the work to be performed is located at a Company site; positions covered by a collective-bargaining agreement (unless the agreement provides for hybrid work); or any other position for which the Company has determined the job requirements cannot be reasonably met working remotely. Please note, this Hybrid work model guidance also does not apply to roles that have been designated as “remote”.

The salary range for this role is

$139,600.00 - $219,700.00

This is the lowest to highest salary we in good faith believe we would pay for this role at the time of this posting. An employee’s position within the salary range will be based on several factors including, but not limited to relevant education, qualifications, certifications, experience, skills, geographic location, government requirements, and business or organizational needs.

The successful candidate will be eligible for annual bonus and long-term incentive, if applicable.

We offer a comprehensive package of benefits. Available benefits include medical, dental, vision healthcare and other insurance benefits (for employee and family), retirement benefits, including 401(k), paid holidays, vacation, and compassionate and sick days. More information about benefits is available at https://jobs.merck.com/us/en/compensation-and-benefits .

You can apply for this role through https://jobs.merck.com/us/en (or via the Workday Jobs Hub if you are a current employee). The application deadline for this position is stated on this posting.

**San Francisco Residents Only:** We will consider qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records for employment in compliance with the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance

**Los Angeles Residents Only:** We will consider for employment all qualified applicants, including those with criminal histories, in a manner consistent with the requirements of applicable state and local laws, including the City of Los Angeles’ Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance

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Merck & Co., Inc., Rahway, NJ, USA, also known as Merck Sharp & Dohme LLC, Rahway, NJ, USA, does not accept unsolicited assistance from search firms for employment opportunities. All CVs / resumes submitted by search firms to any employee at our company without a valid written search agreement in place for this position will be deemed the sole property of our company. No fee will be paid in the event a candidate is hired by our company as a result of an agency referral where no pre-existing agreement is in place. Where agency agreements are in place, introductions are position specific. Please, no phone calls or emails.

Employee Status:

Regular

Relocation:

No relocation

VISA Sponsorship:

No

Travel Requirements:

10%

Flexible Work Arrangements:

Hybrid

Shift:

1st - Day

Valid Driving License:

No

Hazardous Material(s):

n/a

Required Skills:

Acquisitions Divestitures, Agile Product Ownership, Biopharmaceutical Industry, Business, Environmental Scanning, Healthcare Account Management, Healthcare Technology, Innovation, Internal Project Management, Management Process, Promotional Review, Risk Management, Scrum Methodology, Social Collaboration, Strategic Alliances, Strategic Licensing, Strategic Planning, Strategic Thinking

Preferred Skills:

Job Posting End Date:

07/28/2025

*A job posting is effective until 11:59:59PM on the day** **BEFORE** **the listed job posting end date. Please ensure you apply to a job posting no later than the day** **BEFORE** **the job posting end date.

**Requisition ID:** R356716