Vice President, Global Product Partnerships
Job Details
Requirements
- Bring deep familiarity with how pharmaceutical companies manage product donation, market access, and philanthropic decisions across commercial, medical, supply chain, legal, and foundation functions.
- Understand market dynamics, go-to-market strategy, and the realities of introducing products in resource-limited and underserved settings.
- Be able to build forward visibility across supply channels and translate donor pipelines, committed volumes, and sourcing options into planning information.
- Have a strong grounding in global public health and extensive relationships across international and local NGOs, ministries, foundations, and multilaterals.
- Demonstrate strategic thinking and long-term planning, with willingness to build new functions, systems, and materials.
- Bring breadth across therapeutic areas and agility in mastering new product domains.
- Communicate effectively with senior industry executives, internal stakeholders, and frontline partners.
- Use quantitative analysis and data to inform priorities and strategy.
- Lead collaboratively across matrixed teams and departments, fostering transparency, coordination, and alignment.
- Have experience building and leading distributed teams that include other people managers.
- Apply sound regulatory and compliance judgment, particularly in highly regulated environments.
- Preferred: negotiate complex partnership agreements, donation arrangements, or sourcing contracts while balancing risk, quality, and compliance.
- Preferred: grow and diversify external relationship portfolios using disciplined segmentation and targeting.
- Preferred: bring familiarity with Patient Assistance Programs, the US medication access landscape, sourcing, procurement, or supplier qualification.
Responsibilities
- Develop and execute a multi-year Global Product Partnerships strategy with growth, diversification, and new-channel targets.
- Lead the transition toward a diversified product access model that includes donations, procurement, market access partnerships, and regional suppliers.
- Oversee the product and supply portfolio, aligning donation pipelines with documented health needs and program priorities.
- Grow existing donor relationships and build a pipeline of new manufacturers, distributors, wholesalers, and other product donors.
- Partner with Development to create integrated donor strategies, joint account plans, and coordinated product and financial asks.
- Negotiate partnership agreements, donation arrangements, sourcing contracts, and collaboration agreements with Legal, Compliance, and Risk Management.
- Oversee Patient Assistance Programs, ensuring service delivery, compliance, quality, and data integrity.
- Develop sourcing strategies and expand supplier networks while assessing supplier risk, market conditions, and sourcing alternatives.
- Build and lead the Global Product Partnerships team, setting goals, performance measures, and staff development plans.