Job Description SummaryThe Global Senior Director for Pharma Partnerships is responsible for building, leading, and delivering GE HealthCare’s strategic pharmaceutical alliances to advance both approved and pipeline radiopharmaceutical assets.
This role operates as the enterprise alliance manager for key pharma partnerships, owning senior executive relationships and ensuring delivery of joint strategic, clinical, and commercial objectives. The Director defines partnership strategy, shapes deal constructs, and establishes governance frameworks that enable efficient execution and value realization across the lifecycle.
Working cross-functionally, the leader ensures GE HealthCare assets—including FAPI and the Alzheimer’s disease portfolio—are embedded within pharma development programs, enabling CDx pathways, de-risking development, and ensuring successful global commercialization. The role is central to positioning GE HealthCare as the partner of choice for both pharma and providers. Success in this role is defined by embedding GE HealthCare assets into leading pharma programs, enabling CDx pathways at scale, and consistently delivering partnership value that translates into commercial leadership.
Job DescriptionKey Responsibilities
Partnership Strategy & Asset Integration
- Define and lead the global pharma partnership strategy, aligned to priority assets and disease areas with initial focus on FAPI and AD portfolio
- Proactively identify and secure opportunities to embed GE HealthCare diagnostics within pharma pipelines and clinical programs
- Drive early “design-in” of assets to maximize probability of CDx adoption and downstream commercial success
- Translate partnership insights into portfolio priorities and stage-gate investment decisions
- Collaborate with CMC, supply chain, regulatory affairs and R&D to build capabilities that enables GEHC to deliver on key pharma partnership priorities
Deal Structuring, Governance & Value Delivery
- Shape partnership structures, including scope, financial frameworks, milestones, and governance mechanisms
- Ensure alignment between contractual commitments and operational delivery across all functions
- Define and track partnership KPIs, ensuring delivery against agreed objectives and value realization
- Oversee execution of partnership deliverables, including co-development, supply, and commercialization components
Alliance Management & Executive Engagement
- Serve as the primary alliance manager across strategic pharma partnerships, with end-to-end accountability for outcomes
- Own C-suite and senior stakeholder relationships, ensuring alignment on strategy, priorities, and value creation
- Establish and lead Joint Steering Committees and executive governance forums
- Drive clear escalation pathways, decision rights, and operating cadence to maintain execution velocity
Cross-Functional Integration & Execution
- Lead cross-functional orchestration across Clinical, Regulatory, Medical, Market Access, Supply, and Commercial teams
- Align development strategies to enable CDx labeling with efficient clinical and regulatory pathways
- Coordinate global commercial strategy and launch readiness in alignment with pharma partners
- Act as the internal integrator to ensure consistency of strategy, messaging, and execution across teams
Risk Management
- Identify and proactively manage risks across clinical, regulatory, operational, and commercial dimensions
- Establish structured feedback loops from partnerships to inform future deal-making and asset strategy
- Drive disciplined, data-based stage-gate decisions based on partnership performance and emerging evidence
External Positioning
- Reinforce GE HealthCare’s position as a preferred pharma partner through high-quality execution and credibility
- Build long-term relationships across pharma development, BD, and product leadership teams
- Expand partnership opportunities across priority assets and disease areas through proactive engagement
Ideal Profile
- Significant experience in pharmaceutical partnerships, business development, or alliance management, including structuring and executing complex collaborations across development and commercialization
- Experience shaping partnership strategy and translating it into deal structures, operational plans, and measurable outcomes
- Strong external credibility, with experience engaging pharma partners, business development leaders, and scientific stakeholders
- Demonstrated track record of managing strategic partnerships end-to-end, including governance, Joint Steering Committees, and executive-level stakeholder engagement
- Strong understanding of drug and diagnostic development, with experience supporting or enabling CDx strategies, clinical development programs, and regulatory pathways
- Proven ability to operate in complex, cross-functional global environments and influence without direct authority across R&D, clinical, regulatory, and commercial teams
- Experience working across global markets, with appreciation of regional differences in clinical development, regulatory, and market access pathways
- Track record of influencing C-suite stakeholders and driving alignment across organizations in high-stakes partnerships
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For U.S. based positions only, the pay range for this position is $193,600.00-$290,400.00 Annual. It is not typical for an individual to be hired at or near the top of the pay range and compensation decisions are dependent on the facts and circumstances of each case. The specific compensation offered to a candidate may be influenced by a variety of factors including skills, qualifications, experience and location. In addition, this position may also be eligible to earn performance based incentive compensation, which may include cash bonus(es) and/or long term incentives (LTI). GE HealthCare offers a competitive benefits package, including not but limited to medical, dental, vision, paid time off, a 401(k) plan with employee and company contribution opportunities, life, disability, and accident insurance, and tuition reimbursement.
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