Job Description
Employment Type: Full time
Work Schedule: Standard (Mon-Fri)
Environmental Conditions: Office
Discover Impactful Work:
The Biotech Solutions Partnership and Engagement Specialist completes operational processes to optimize daily activities and performance to engage at all levels of the sector-wide biotech organization. Contributes to the prioritization of initiatives supported or led by the team. May lead the planning, development, oversight, analysis, and execution of key operational processes.
A Day in the Life:
- Prepares reports, presentations, and other content needed for business updates.
- Develops content for client meetings (i.e., governance, partnership meetings, collection of sector-level metrics and data).
- Manages the team's shared mailbox and online collaboration workspaces and tools.
- Leads partnership onboarding & implementation across the sector.
- Directs account setup and operationalization for internal and external team members.
- Owns ongoing partnership/account support and maintenance.
- Facilitates relationship management & coordination across the sector.
- As necessary, drives technical or process integration.
- Monitors customer experience through partnership surveys and feedback.
- Maintains client-specific collaboration workspaces.
- Develops varied support materials, presentations, and/or tools to support the department's remit and strategies.
- Proactively collaborates with initiative leads and management to develop, optimize, and improve processes, associated systems/applications, training, and communications.
- Provides support to sector-level conferences to leverage client engagement.
- Works with the Biotech Portfolio Leads to support their partnership needs – i.e., Initiatives, process optimization, tool development, meeting support, etc.
- Leads and manages workstreams to stand up new operating models, or ways of working within our key partnerships to support evolution and growth.
- Manages and facilitates meetings, with client engagement, to support the biotech sector.
- Leads small to medium-scale process improvement initiatives.
- Identifies and collates information required to assess compliance with processes and to prioritize business process improvement needs.
- Performs special projects, assignments, and administrative tasks per business needs.
- Performs proactive and root cause analyses to assess areas of success and opportunities for improvement within our partnerships.
Keys to Success:
Education:
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent and relevant formal academic / vocational qualification.
Experience:
- Previous experience that provides the knowledge, skills, and abilities to perform the job (comparable to 5+ years).
- Hands-on experience and knowledge of clinical trial operations.
- In some cases, an equivalency, consisting of a combination of appropriate education, training, and/or directly related experience, will be considered sufficient for an individual to meet the requirements of the role.
Knowledge, Skills, Abilities:
- In-depth understanding of procedural documents.
- Strong understanding of process improvement fundamentals.
- Solid investigative and analytical skills.
- Strong negotiation skills.
- Proven understanding of clinical management technology and systems, and strong computer skills.
- Effective judgment, decision-making, critical issue, and risk management skills.
- Effective oral and written communication skills, including the ability to communicate in English, both orally and in writing.
- Strong social skills and problem-solving ability.
- Capable of directing and promoting collaboration in a multi-disciplinary and/or multi-cultural team setting.
- Strong attention to detail.
- Strong leadership and organizational skills.
- Ability to work independently with little guidance in a dynamic environment.
- Thorough understanding of regulatory guidelines and directives.
- Strong creative and critical thinking skills.