Academic Alliance Sr. Manager / Associate Director
At a glance
Leadership Channel & Partnerships role at AstraZeneca. Beijing Yizhuang · full-time.
Pay not stated
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What you'll do
- Build and oversee relationships with clinical and research centres for pre-clinical and clinical studies
- Find potential collaborators, rank proposed projects, and track alliance work across R&D China
- Translate internal R&D needs into alliance options and connect external inquiries with strategic partners
- Coordinate scientific exchanges, forums, and R&D China Science Day engagements
- Align global partnership plans with China priorities, including collaboration submissions and clinical operations
What you bring
- A science bachelor’s degree plus more than five years in the pharmaceutical industry
- Knowledge of drug-development strategy and process, with proven project and alliance-management experience
- Fluent spoken and written English for work across teams and time zones
- The ability to manage risks and deliver through influence, relationships, and facilitation
Who this fits
You’ll suit a senior alliance role connecting R&D China, global alliance teams, research centres, and clinical partners. The work requires cross-company collaboration, cultural sensitivity, and comfort influencing multidisciplinary stakeholders. Global travel is required when business needs call for it, and you’ll work across multiple time zones.
From the employer
Support AZ R&D China to form collaboration with: 1) academic research institutes/ clinical centres and 2) AZ Global R&D Alliance.
The scope will include identification of potential collaborator, prioritization of collaboration projects, and support & monitoring of projects. The therapeutic areas will cover Oncology, cardiovascular diseases, respiratory diseases, auto-immune disorders, metabolic diseases, and rare diseases.
Typical Accountabilities
- Manage the relationship with clinical/research centres as AZ’s preferred partners for pre-clinical and clinical studies, including managing both sides’ expectation and ensuring the governance requirements
- Cultivate relationships with key stakeholders in R&D China ecosystem to expand and strengthen the collaborations.
- Drive to create and maintain a positive external environment and alliance ecosystem to support R&D China strategy.
- Understand the alliance needs of internal stakeholders, identify optimal alliance solutions aligned with the R&D strategies, facilitate and consult efficient alliance activities.
- Acting as the focal point of AZ R&D to all external inquiries, facilitate to connect and align with strategic partners to frame the strategic alliance projects.
- Monitor all alliance related activities cross R&D China, proactively anticipating risks & needs, and lead resolving the cross-team alliance issues.
- Coordinate and manage external engagement activities including scientific exchanges, forum, R&D China Science Day, etc.
- Work with Global R&D alliance teams to develop and implement integrated strategy for key global partnerships and collaborations.
- Analyse the global site operations & various dept. on their plans and resources, map them to R&D China strategic initiatives, including improving process of submitting scientific collaborations, translational data management & sample acquisition, clinical operations, etc…
- Increase the visibility of China alliance activities to foster good awareness internally and promote collaboration possibilities externally.
Education, Qualifications, Skills and Experience
Essential
- Bachelor degree in science with >5 years’ experience in pharmaceutical industry
- Knowledge of drug development strategy and process
- Fluent in spoken and written English.
- Project management experience and capability, proven experience in alliance/partnership excellence.
- Willingness to work in a global team across multiple time zones and have cultural sensitivity to influence the key stakeholders.
- Effectively work in a multidisciplinary and across companies environment.
- Demonstrated results-focus and ability to deliver projects through influence, relationship management and facilitation skills.
- Ability to assess and mitigate the issues/risks.
- Ability to travel globally based on business needs.
Desirable
- A postgraduate degree (e.g. MSc, PhD, or MBA)
- Have sufficient knowledge about China pharmaceutical industry (i.e., trends in R&D-related policies and innovation; > 5-year experience in MNCs and/ or consulting companies)
- Have good networking in the target clinical/research centres.
Date Posted
18-8月-2026Closing Date
29-9月-2026AstraZeneca embraces diversity and equality of opportunity. We are committed to building an inclusive and diverse team representing all backgrounds, with as wide a range of perspectives as possible, and harnessing industry-leading skills. We believe that the more inclusive we are, the better our work will be. We welcome and consider applications to join our team from all qualified candidates, regardless of their characteristics. We comply with all applicable laws and regulations on non-discrimination in employment (and recruitment), as well as work authorization and employment eligibility verification requirements.
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