Job Description
We are recruiting for a Global Marketing Director, Alliance Portfolio Lead.
This role provides support across oncology alliance governance, business operations, and portfolio integration activities. The position is responsible for ensuring alliance operating models, governance processes, and partnership obligations translate into effective business execution while enabling alignment between alliance ways of working and broader portfolio priorities.
The role serves as a strategic connector between internal stakeholders and alliance stakeholders, ensuring decisions are made efficiently, commitments are executed effectively, and alliance capabilities evolve to support changing business needs. The individual will operate across multiple cross-functional teams and partner organizations to drive alignment, manage complexity, and facilitate execution against shared objectives.
The individual in this role will create trusted relationships with:
- Internal alliance team members, including senior leadership.
- Cross-functional partners across Commercial, Finance, Legal, Compliance, Alliance Management, and other relevant functions.
- Regional and market stakeholders.
- External alliance partners and governance committee representatives.
The individual will:
- Support the alliance business operations framework, including planning cycles, operating cadence, milestones, deliverables, execution tracking, and ongoing operational governance across alliance organizations.
- Lead preparation and execution support for governance committees and decision-making forums, including agenda development, decision readiness assessment, issue management, escalation tracking, and follow-through on agreed actions.
- Ensure alliance activities operate in accordance with contractual obligations, governance structures, decision rights, operating procedures, and compliance requirements while partnering appropriately with Legal, Compliance, Finance, and Alliance Management stakeholders.
- Serve as a central point of coordination across internal and external stakeholders to facilitate alignment, transparency, and informed decision-making.
- Lead coordination of alliance-related portfolio lifecycle management activities and facilitate integration of relevant portfolio processes into alliance ways of working.
- Drive alignment of marketing operations approaches, processes, tools, and technologies across alliance environments where appropriate and supported by governance structures.
- Facilitate integration of partnered promotional assets and portfolio content into broader portfolio planning and execution processes.
- Identify, surface, and help resolve cross-company alignment issues related to priorities, timelines, resources, assumptions, dependencies, and execution risks
Key Capabilities
- Strategic thinking and business acumen.
- Executive-level communication and influencing skills.
- Alliance, partnership, or complex stakeholder-management experience.
- Strong governance and decision-management capabilities.
- Organizational leadership in matrix and shared-authority environments.
- Negotiation, conflict resolution, and alignment-building skills.
- Ability to manage ambiguity and lead through organizational complexity.
- Strong analytical, planning, and problem-solving abilities.
- Ability to connect strategic priorities with operational execution
Education Minimum Requirement
- Minimum BA/BS degree.
- Advanced degree (MBA or Master's degree) preferred.
Required Experience and Skills
- Minimum of seven (7) years Pharmaceutical Business experience
- Experience leading cross-functional initiatives within complex healthcare, pharmaceutical, biotechnology, or comparable environments.
- Demonstrated success influencing outcomes across organizations without direct authority.
- Experience working with senior stakeholders and executive governance bodies.
- Strong relationship management, communication, and negotiation capabilities.
- Experience translating strategic priorities into operational plans and measurable outcomes.
- Demonstrated ability to lead through ambiguity and organizational complexity.
Preferred Experience and Skills
- Alliance or strategic partnership experience.
- Minimum of (2) years of Oncology experience.
- Global or regional business experience.
- Experience supporting governance committees and cross-company operating models.
- Familiarity with lifecycle management processes, portfolio planning, or commercial operations.
- Understanding of forecasting, business performance management, and strategic planning processes.
Required Skills:
Business Alignment, Business Alignment, Business Decisions, Business Development Initiatives, Collaborative Leadership, Direct Marketing, Executive Leadership, Executive Presence, Financial Acumen, Launch Readiness, Managing Ambiguity, Market Assessments, Market Development, Market Research, Oncology Marketing, Organizational Leadership, Partner Relationship Management (PRM), Planning Ability, Product Launch Support, Product Management, Product Positioning, Progress Monitoring, Relationship Management, Results-Oriented, Stakeholder Management {+ 6 more}
Preferred Skills:
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Current Contingent Workers apply
The salary range for this role is
$190,800.00 - $300,300.00
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 .
You can apply for this role through (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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Employee Status:
Regular
Relocation:
No relocation
VISA Sponsorship:
No
Travel Requirements:
25%
Flexible Work Arrangements:
Hybrid
Shift:
Not Indicated
Valid Driving License:
No
Hazardous Material(s):
N/A
Job Posting End Date:
10/7/2026
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