Remote Director, Clinical Collaborations & Partnerships

Quantum Leap Healthcare Collaborative; San Francisco, Northern (CA, KY); Hybrid; USD 165,000 - 248,000; Full time

Job summary

Quantum Leap Healthcare Collaborative (QLHC) is seeking a Director, Collaborations to lead external partnerships with pharmaceutical and biotech partners, clinicians, and sponsors. This contractor role focuses on identifying opportunities, developing multi-party collaborations, and driving strategic growth.

You will work across clinical operations, regulatory, and legal teams to craft agreements, oversee trial-related collaborations, and ensure timely execution while upholding quality standards.

Qualifications

• MS, PhD, or MD degree in a relevant scientific field.
• Experience in biotech/pharmaceuticals or clinical diagnostics.
• Experience in sales, marketing, business development, and basic, clinical or translational research in an academic, and/or industry setting.
• Experience in clinical practice or drug development, including oncology biomarker development, clinical trials, targeted therapy, immuno-oncology, etc.
• Outstanding presentation and communication skills is a must.
• Outstanding written skills with technical documents like protocols, etc.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with finance, legal, clinical safety, clinical operations, regulatory, and project management.
• Communicate and facilitate communication between pharmaceutical partners to investigators to generate new clinical trial arms.
• Advance the integration of clinical care and clinical research through developing partnerships.
• Develop and maintain strong relationships with external partners by locating, developing, defining, and closing business agreements and ensuring effective collaboration.
• Delegate supporting roles to collaboration team members.
• Manage project functions relating to communication flow, efficient meeting structures, deliverables, and timelines.
• Directly manage across entire business portfolio, monitor partnership performance, develop strategies to address any issues, and manage appropriate escalation within the organization as needed.
• Develop and execute partnership, including multi-party collaborations for clinical development, regulatory, safety reporting and other agreements.
• Identify trendsetting ideas by researching industry and related events, publications, and announcements.
• Discover and explore business opportunities by actively networking with new and existing contacts.
• Screen potential trial ideas by analyzing strategies, requirements, and financials.
• Evaluate options and resolves internal priorities.
• Develop and apply the negotiating strategies and positions required to quickly obtain consensus and enable contract execution according to tight timelines.
• Work with Clinical Operations, Collaborations, and internal and external partners to develop protocols and protocol amendments.
• Contribute substantially to and manage protocol development for FDA and IRB submissions.
• Work with Clinical Operations to transition new contracts into clinical implementation
• Attend occasional conferences and meetings at companies with the primary goal of developing new collaborations
• Interact with existing and potential government sponsors to establish and maintain new collaborations, with the maintenance function involving participating in report preparation and presenting status updates to sponsors
• Protect organization’s values by keeping information confidential.
• Work closely with cross-functional teams to ensure effective collaboration and alignment with partners and will be responsible for driving successful execution of partnership objectives.

Skills

Presentation skills

Communication

Written communication

Leadership

Education

MS/PhD/MD in relevant scientific field

Job description

Quantum Leap Healthcare Collaborative (QLHC) is seeking a Director, Collaborations to lead external partnerships with pharmaceutical and biotech partners, clinicians, and sponsors. This contractor role focuses on identifying opportunities, developing multi-party collaborations, and driving strategic growth.

You will work across clinical operations, regulatory, and legal teams to craft agreements, oversee trial-related collaborations, and ensure timely execution while upholding quality standards.