About This Role
The Associate Director, External Growth & Innovation will execute strategic partnerships across the healthcare ecosystem that create meaningful value for Biogen, patient communities, and customers. This role will identify and evaluate partnership opportunities and lead collaborations from contracting through implementation, working across therapeutic areas within Biogen North America. The Associate Director will navigate a complex, cross-functional commercial organization and build strong relationships with external partners to translate innovative ideas into impactful, scalable solutions, while maintaining a strong understanding of evolving market dynamics and business priorities. As part of a small, agile team, this role reports to the Senior Director, External Growth & Innovation.
What You'll Do
Lead the execution of strategic partnership initiatives by developing clear workplans, defining milestones, managing dependencies, and proactively mitigating risks to ensure successful delivery. Coordinate and influence cross-functional teams and external partners, providing regular updates to leadership and supporting the negotiation of partnership agreements in collaboration with Legal, Compliance, and Procurement. Drive the transition of partnership programs from pilot to scale, using performance data and insights to recommend expansion, optimization, or sunset decisions. Build and maintain strong relationships with strategic partners while serving as an internal advocate for partnership investments and long-term success. Act as a strategic advisor to Therapeutic Area teams, identifying partnership opportunities that address unmet needs, remove barriers, and accelerate growth. Monitor U.S. healthcare market trends, emerging care models, and ecosystem developments to identify high-impact collaboration opportunities. Develop business cases for new partnerships by evaluating strategic alignment, potential impact, scalability, feasibility, and investment requirements. Establish and track key performance indicators (KPIs) to measure partnership effectiveness, inform decision-making, and demonstrate business value.
Who You Are
You are a strategic thinker and highly organized operator who thrives in ambiguity and can develop creative solutions to complex challenges. You bring structure to fast-moving work, managing multiple priorities, workstreams, timelines and stakeholders with discipline and attention to detail. You build strong relationships across the healthcare ecosystem and translate opportunities into impactful partnerships, driving initiatives through execution. You have a track record of leading cross-functional teams and influencing without authority, combined with consistent follow-through, strong project management and execution skills. You bring deep knowledge of the U.S. healthcare market and experience navigating biopharma commercial organizations.
Qualifications:
Bachelor's degree required; MBA or other advanced degree preferred. 8+ years of progressive experience within the healthcare industry, including healthcare consulting and/or commercial biopharmaceutical experience. Strong understanding of the U.S. healthcare ecosystem, including key stakeholders, market dynamics, and evolving industry trends. Working knowledge of emerging healthcare technologies and innovations, including the application of artificial intelligence (AI) to enhance business outcomes. Demonstrated ability to lead effectively through change, ambiguity, and organizational transformation. Proven track record of managing complex, cross-functional programs involving multiple workstreams, diverse stakeholder groups, and competing priorities. Exceptional communication and influencing skills, with the ability to clearly and concisely convey complex ideas to senior leaders and key organizational stakeholders. Strong project management, strategic thinking, and problem-solving capabilities, with a focus on delivering measurable result
