Senior Manager, Strategic Partnerships Cell Therapy

Bio-Techne • Minneapolis, MN

3d • Remote

About The Position

By joining Bio-Techne, you’ll join a company with a powerful and positive purpose of enabling cutting-edge research in Life Sciences and Clinical Diagnostics. Bio-Techne, and all of its brands, provides tools for researchers to further treat and prevent disease worldwide. Pay Range: $133,300.00 - $219,100.00 Description The Senior Manager, Strategic Partnerships is a national-level, enterprise-facing role in our Cell Therapy Commercial t e am responsible for shaping and executing long-term strategic partnerships . Our cell therapy customers are scaling from RUO-to-GMP and onward to clinical and commercial phases . They will need a S trategic P artnerships M anager who can align at all levels in the ir organization, including Executive/Franchise leadership to convert complex opportunities into long-term, win-win partnerships . This individual will work cross-functionally with multiple stakeholders internally and externally to drive deal and high-value agreement momentum for our end-to-end Cell Therapy solutions. Location: Fully Remote ( including but not limited to Boston, MA; Houston, TX, Philadelphia, PA, San Diego, CA, San Francisco, CA) Travel Expectations: 25- 50% USA & Canada travel

Requirements

• Minimum of Bachelor’s Degree in relevant field to the position ( e.g. Cell Biology , BioChem ) and 12+ years of relevant , progressive experience in advanced therapies .
• Master’s/PhD with combined related 10+ years work experience in the advanced therapy space (immune cell, regenerative medicine)
• Experience in life sciences, biotech, or life science tools (preferably in Cell Therapy) managing high-value pharma/biotech partnerships
• Demonstrated success in executive level engagements and customer-facing roles
• Experience facilitating agreements successfully and managing multiple stakeholders
• Ability to translate scientific and technical complexity into clear strategy
• Demonstrated success in working in fast-changing, matrixed enterprise environments
• Experience supporting regulated workflows in a commercial context

Responsibilities

• Multi-year Strategic Account Planning Develop, own, and communicate national account plans for enterprise biopharma and related account s in this space Map executive stakeholders, clinical/manufacturing roadmaps, defining quarterly and annual shared objectives and milestones Translate customer strategies into actionable joint initiatives and collaboration agreements
• Executive Cadence & Governance Establish and run executive business review with clear narratives, decisions and action logs Create and maintain an executive-level decision marker rhythm (pre-reads, decision memos, follow-ups) to keep momentum and resolve escalations fast Serve as the senior point of contact for enterprise cell therapy accounts, aligning internal leaders to support making decisions at the appropriate levels (Commercial, Quality, Regulatory, Operations, Supply Chain, Product Management, Legal, Business Unit Leaders in Advanced Cell Systems)
• Agreements/Negotiations Coordinate cross-functional work to accelerate high-value agreements ( e.g. term sheets to supply agreements, co-development, memorandums of understanding, quality agreements) Structure problem statements with options and tradeoffs, while shepherding through review/approval paths noting cycle time and removing bottlenecks Partner closely with Legal & Commercial Partnerships & Business leadership on negotiation prep, redline resolution, and stakeholder alignment
• Pipeline Health & Market Intelligence Maintain a high-quality, high-value opportunity portfolio to support late-stage conversions, cross- sell adjacent offerings, develop and further engage with KOL’s, and executive-sponsored initiatives to support our cell therapy customers and enable of our portfolio within the programs Identify and share landscape shifts in the market and competitive signals , investment ; doing so via routine industry and field travel ; r eporting this out regularly to leadership
• Orchestration & Customer Experience Lead cross-functional squads to deliver on customer commitments with purposeful action-oriented mindset Anticipate and proactively address risk and put in mitigations to ensure a consistent premium customer experience for a defined number of accounts that will change over time

Benefits

• We offer competitive insurance benefits starting on day one: medical, dental, vision, life, short-term disability, long-term disability, pet, and legal and ID shield.
• We invest in our employees’ financial futures through 401k plans, an employee stock purchase plan (ESPP), Health Saving Account (HSA), Flexible Spending Account (FSA), and Dependent Care FSA.
• We empower our employees develop their careers through mentorship, promotional opportunities, training and development, tuition reimbursement, internship programs, and more.
• We offer employee resource groups, volunteer paid time off, employee events, and charity drives to build a culture of caring and belonging.
• We offer an accrued leave policy with paid holidays, paid time off, and paid parental leave.
• We foster a culture of empowerment and innovation, where employees feel valued and encouraged to bring their new ideas to the table.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Number of Employees: 501-1,000 employees