Senior Alliance Manager (Remote)

Caris Life Sciences; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 145,000 - 175,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental and vision coverage

Health Savings Account

Flexible Spending Account

Paid time off

401k match

Long‑term disability insurance

Employee Assistance Program

Pet Insurance

Legal Assistance

Tuition Assistance

Job summary

Caris Life Sciences seeks a Senior Manager, Alliances to drive best-in-class partner programs with biopharma partners, delivering on contractual obligations and alliance value.

Lead cross-functional delivery, governance, and risk management, mentor teammates, and help Caris expand collaboration opportunities in precision medicine.

Requires a bachelor’s degree and 4+ years in molecular biology, oncology, or related fields; able to travel up to 20%. Annual Hiring Range: $145,000 - $175,000.

Qualifications

• A bachelor's degree and 4+ years of experience in molecular biology, oncology, or related fields.
• Experience managing alliances, contracts, and cross-functional programs.
• Ability to travel up to 20% and work with biopharma and biotech partners.

Responsibilities

• Manage or oversee a portfolio of strategic alliances programs and health checks.
• Guide internal teams on contract opportunities and deliverables.
• Lead prescriptive delivery, gather partner requirements, and ensure high-quality execution.
• Establish governance, align deliverables with objectives, and mitigate risks.
• Foster strong relationships and identify expansion opportunities.

Skills

Molecular biology

Clinical molecular diagnostics

Oncology

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Microsoft Office Suite

Job description

At Caris, we understand that cancer is an ugly word—a word no one wants to hear, but one that connects us all. That’s why we’re not just transforming cancer care—we’re changing lives. We introduced precision medicine to the world and built an industry around the idea that every patient deserves answers as unique as their DNA. Backed by cutting-edge molecular science and AI, we ask ourselves every day: "What would I do if this patient were my mom?" That question drives everything we do. But our mission doesn’t stop with cancer. We're pushing the frontiers of medicine and leading a revolution in healthcare—driven by innovation, compassion, and purpose. Join us in our mission to improve the human condition across multiple diseases. If you're passionate about meaningful work and want to be part of something bigger than yourself, Caris is where your impact begins.

Position Summary

The Senior Manager, Alliances is responsible for continuously improving implementation and partner relationship management best practices and driving Caris to be recognized as a biopharma partner of choice. This professional owns and/or oversees execution, delivery, and relationship management of programs with Caris' biopharma and biotech partners, maximizing the value of partnerships. They collaborate with Caris BioPartnering leaders to understand in-flight contractual discussions, ensure delivery of contractual obligations, and advise on feasible alternatives to drive successful client relationships. This leader develops deep expertise in Caris' unique capabilities and applies that expertise—or enables a team to apply it—to address real-world needs for alliance decision-makers and biopharma partners. Their efforts support research and development activities, novel target identification, indication expansion, commercial efficiency, clinical trial enrollment and success, companion diagnostics, molecular profiling, real-world data initiatives, precision medicine programs, and target discovery.

Job Responsibilities

• Manage or oversee a portfolio of strategic alliances programs, including oversight and participation in the following: Strategic value and alliance health: Conduct due diligence to gain a thorough understanding of the partner’s organization, objectives, and value drivers. Lead periodic health checks. Execute annual operating plans aligned with corporate objectives.
• Contract management: Guide internal project teams with respect to opportunities and constraints arising from partnership agreements. Ensure project aims, deliverables, and objectives are met.
• Delivery: Lead a prescriptive delivery, gathering partner requirements, and making recommendations about the provisioning of Caris solutions. Direct delivery team from program inception to completion of final deliverables, ensuring high quality execution of alliance commitments. Align business needs to workstream deliverables, managing timeline and technical performance. Communicate prioritization, organize team activities, elevate potential roadblocks, and track to program goals.
• Process management: Establish smooth operations, preparation of governance meetings and decision-making. Lead partner implementations in a way that exceeds partner expectations and meets timelines.
• Alignment and relationship management: Shepherd intra- and inter-company alignment and communication; Lead efforts for increased mutual understanding and trust. Drive continuous improvement of the alliance. Enhance and redesign governance. Identify incremental expansion opportunities. Serve as an internal solution and process SME for expansion, validating feasibility, risks resource requirements, and timelines.
• Proactive risk management: Identify, assess, and communicate partner needs, risks, and dependencies. Lead mitigation planning and issue resolution.
• Customer and Business Excellence: Demonstrate strong competency in Caris’s solutions and effectively communicate the value of Caris offerings. Provide best-practice recommendations to partners and tailor delivery approaches to their needs. Build, maintain, and expand strong customer relationships through partner focus, professionalism, reliability, and responsiveness. Execute the best practices according to implementation and relationship management.
• Mentor colleagues and contribute to team capability development. Contribute to continuous process improvement initiatives and pilot new approaches. Provide account-level forecasting inputs, including deliverable dates, sample volumes, risks, assumptions, and capacity considerations, as appropriate.

Management responsibilities (when applicable)

Lead, motivate, coach, and develop team members to achieve individual and organizational goals. Foster a positive, collaborative, and high-performance work environment. Manage a team responsible for day-to-day partner operations and alliance delivery activities. Ensure team members consistently exceed partner satisfaction expectations and deliver on contractual obligations. Oversee team operations and allocate resources effectively across alliance portfolios. Make data-driven decisions that align team priorities with organizational objectives. Support performance management, talent development, succession planning, and hiring activities.

Required Qualifications

A bachelor's degree and 4+ years of professional experience in one or more of the following domains: Molecular biology, clinical molecular diagnostics, or oncology; Managing multimodal real‑world data relationships or repositories, drug development or discovery, clinical research or study management, product management, companion diagnostics projects, healthcare implementation, delivery, or program management. Prior experience in a manager-level role or higher. Ability to travel up to 20%. Proficient in Microsoft Office Suite, specifically Word, Excel, Outlook, and general business use of internet-based tools.

Preferred Qualifications

Working knowledge of applicable regulatory and quality frameworks (e.g., CLIA, CAP, GMP, GCP, IVDR, HIPAA) and how they impact day-to-day operations and deliverables. Experience delivering—or partnering to deliver—oncology offerings, laboratory services, therapeutic programs, healthcare data products, or clinical-trial enrollment solutions. Prior experience leading cross-functional teams and/or direct reports.

Physical Demands

Will work at a computer most of the time. Must possess ability to sit and/or stand for long periods of time. Must possess ability to perform repetitive motion.

Training

All job-specific, safety, and compliance training are assigned based on the job functions associated with this employee.

Other

This position requires periodic travel and some evenings, weekends and/or holidays.

Annual Hiring Range

Annual Hiring Range $145,000 - $175,000. Actual compensation offer to candidate may vary from posted hiring range based upon geographic location, work experience, education, and/or skill level. The pay ratio between base pay and target incentive (if applicable) will be finalized at offer.

Description of Benefits

• Highly competitive and inclusive medical, dental and vision coverage options
• Health Savings Account for medical expenses and dependent care expenses
• Flexible Spending Account to pay for certain out-of-pocket expenses
• Paid time off, including: vacation, sick time and holidays
• 401k match and Financial Planning tools
• LTD and STD insurance coverages, as well as voluntary benefit options
• Employee Assistance Program
• Pet Insurance
• Legal Assistance
• Tuition Assistance

Conditions of Employment: Individual must successfully complete pre-employment process. This job description reflects management’s assignment of essential functions. Nothing in this job description restricts management’s right to assign or reassign duties and responsibilities to this job at any time.

Caris Life Sciences is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, status as a protected veteran, among other things, or status as a qualified individual with disability.

Caris Life Sciences is a leading innovator in molecular science and artificial intelligence focused on fulfilling the promise of precision medicine through quality and innovation. Caris is committed to quality and excellence at our state-of-the-art laboratories. Learn more about our tissue lab and the advanced technologies that are helping improve the lives of cancer patients.