Senior Director Corporate Partnerships and Program Development

Who We Are 

Flagship Pioneering is a life sciences company that invents and builds platform companies that change the world. We bring together the greatest scientific minds with entrepreneurial company builders and assemble the capital to allow them to take courageous leaps. Those big leaps in human health and sustainability exponentially accelerate scientific progress in areas ranging from cancer detection and treatment to nature-positive agriculture.   

What sets Flagship apart is our ability to advance biotechnology by uniting life science innovation, company creation, and capital investment under one roof in a way that is largely without precedent. Our scientific founders, entrepreneurial leaders, and professional capital managers are each aligned around an institutionalized process that enables us to innovate and transform for the benefit of people and planet.   

Many of the companies Flagship has founded have addressed humanity’s most urgent challenges: vaccinating billions of people against COVID-19, curing intractable diseases, improving human health, preempting illness, and feeding the world by improving the resiliency and sustainability of agriculture.  

Flagship has been recognized twice on FORTUNE’s “Change the World” list, an annual ranking of companies that have made a positive social and environmental impact through activities that are part of their core business strategies and has been twice named to Fast Company’s annual list of the World’s Most Innovative Companies. 

Position Summary 

The VP, Corporate Partnerships and Program Development will contribute to strategy and execution of business development and collaboration innovation across the Flagship ecosystem.  S/he will assist in building a new function at Flagship Pioneering that leverages strategic project leadership, business sense, and EQ to drive the productive implementation of multiple institution-level partnerships with pharma, life science, tech companies, and international entities that span the Flagship ecosystem.   
This  newly created Corporate Partnership function will be responsible for creating best practices that will bridge the strengths of established industry partners with the scaled network of novel bioplatforms that are part of the Flagship ecosystem. The VP, Corporate Partnerships and Program Development will be accountable for managing alliances of high complexity through the alliance lifecycle to contribute to the partnership's success. You will contribute to alliance design and contract development, with Business Development, and guide the organization on best practices for alliance execution.  

Specific responsibilities: 

• Contribute to building this new function that will drive the programmatic development and implementation of multiple alliances through a team of collaborators and stakeholders across Flagship to meet business and partnership objectives. Alliances and partnerships include pharmaceutical companies, life sciences companies and global partners (e.g. research institutes, government sponsors). 

• Develop collaboration guiding principles and objectives, execute and recommend changes to governance structure, develop joint ways of working, and provide alliance health checks. 

• Provide expertise on the alliance contract and operationalization, drive contract development and amendments with Business Development. 

• Drive alliance governance including alignment on collaboration progress, meetings and project development.   

• Utilize alliance reporting and alliance health monitoring to inform strategy.  

• Train multidisciplinary teams on value drivers of alliance. 

• Develop tools and best practices for execution.  

 
Key Qualifications and Attributes 

• Applicable advanced degree.   Preferred to have a Business/MBA Foundation with appreciation of value creation, business models and BD/JVs/M&A approaches  

Years of experience (12+) 

• Ability to operate effortlessly in a matrixed environment, comfortable with ambiguity 

• Sophisticated collaborator and communicator, with ability to influence up, down, and across, based on strong understanding of internal and external organizational goals 

• Self-starter and entrepreneur with a continuous improvement mindset to assist in building brand new function  

• Ability to drive complex projects with multiple stakeholders to completion 

• Expertise in synthesizing significant data spanning multiple functional areas, and balancing drug discovery and development decisions with strategic business sense 

• Expertise on alliance contracts and track record of translating contract into actions. 

• Engineering/science background (preferred) with ability to be value added interface with FSP PBUs and external partner R&D organization(s) 

• Passion for pioneering impact and value creation in the life sciences space based upon delivering human and planet health benefits  

• Ability to commute regularly for effective collaboration with Flagship and ecosystem partners. 

Flagship Pioneering and our ecosystem companies are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status. 

At Flagship, we recognize there is no perfect candidate. If you have some of the experience listed above but not all, please apply anyway. Experience comes in many forms, skills are transferable, and passion goes a long way. We are dedicated to building diverse and inclusive teams and look forward to learning more about your unique background. 

Recruitment & Staffing Agencies: Flagship Pioneering and its affiliated Flagship Lab companies (collectively, “FSP”) do not accept unsolicited resumes from any source other than candidates.  The submission of unsolicited resumes by recruitment or staffing agencies to FSP or its employees is strictly prohibited unless contacted directly by Flagship Pioneering’s internal Talent Acquisition team.   Any resume submitted by an agency in the absence of a signed agreement will automatically become the property of FSP, and FSP will not owe any referral or other fees with respect thereto