Relationship Manager
Company: Rma & Risk Management Association
Location: Palo Alto
Posted on: October 29, 2024
Job Description:
The healthcare industry is being revolutionized by artificial
intelligence, novel business models, and a digital transformation.
Stanford Medicine is in the perfect position, with our proximity to
Silicon Valley, our deep ongoing relationships with companies in
many sectors, as well as our world-leading physicians and faculty,
to be a leader of this transition. Strong partnerships between
Stanford and industry are critical to fuel the innovation cycle
that drives change in health care going forward. By joining the
Stanford Medicine Industry Relations (IR) team you're joining the
front lines of an exciting revolution in health care. We are
looking for proactive, diplomatic, enablers to ensure success as we
challenge the status quo and partner with industry in novel
projects. If you like being challenged with creative solutions to
problems that didn't exist yesterday, if you want to leverage your
education or work history in life sciences, if you thrive on
anticipating needs and proactively solving problems, this may be
the perfect role for you. In this role you'll be a primary liaison
helping to foster and manage complex, high-value, and strategic
partnerships between the School of Medicine and a wide variety of
pharmaceutical and life science companies. You'll earn the trust
and build relationships with key innovation partners. You'll
facilitate meetings with Stanford and partner leadership and
stakeholders, streamline and drive the contract process, define the
objectives and key results, oversee the execution phase, and report
back metrics and dashboards to key constituents. You'll project
manage large, complex projects across multiple internal Stanford
departments and external partners. This position represents the
Stanford Medicine Strategy Office and interacts daily with external
partner senior executives as well as a wide variety of internal
constituents including physicians, faculty, and sr. staff. Success
in this role requires deep pharmaceutical knowledge (preferably a
PhD or PharmD) and a strong relationship-building background.
Stanford University is seeking a Relationship Manager to manage the
entire collection of projects undertaken by an organization or
division in a manner that ensures their alignment with the
university's strategic objectives. Typically proposes new
initiatives and champions the business and technical planning and
conceptual efforts for major projects and initiatives. Provide
limited technical contribution as needed to successfully complete
projects. Duties include:
- Perform the full range of project management cycle: initiating,
planning, executing, monitoring and controlling, and closing.
Independently lead and direct projects requiring high levels of
functional integration and involving multiple disciplines to be
managed.
- Direct development of an action plan, and estimate requirements
for resources, including management, labor, materials, and time
required to complete project.
- Facilitate discussions and negotiations to drive recommendation
consensus.
- Create and help execute comprehensive change management
strategy and communication plan relative to project/portfolio scope
and stakeholders; orchestrate and lead change management
methodologies underlying project success.
- May oversee other project staff.
- These elements typically delineate the project management
involved at this level: charter origination, scope identification,
shaping, and definition; # of disciplines. Stakeholders to manage
is across-university impact, and city, county and major donor
constituents; risk-manage, control, and report on risk associated
with numerous projects and programs, affecting an entire School or
business entity's project program; project complexity involves some
of the most complex, new technology to be utilized and facilitate
decisions requiring consideration of wide influences to drive a
decision; primary university relationship is at the deans, donors
and executive committee level; typical cumulative budget/scope
$600k to over $2 million. * - Other duties may also be assigned
EDUCATION & EXPERIENCE (REQUIRED): Bachelor's degree in a related
field and ten years of progressively responsible, relevant project
management experience performing duties similar to those listed
above or a combination of education and experience. KNOWLEDGE,
SKILLS AND ABILITIES (REQUIRED):
- Demonstrated ability to organize work and to manage multiple
projects.
- Exceptional and effective written and oral communication skills
to address a wide variety of audiences.
- In-depth knowledge and understanding of university operations,
administration, community, and mission.
- Ability to productively assemble, engage and lead
cross-functional teams.
- Demonstrated project management ability to employ integration,
scope time management, cost, quality, human resources,
communications, risk and procurement components.
- Demonstrated resilience, diplomacy, influence, relationship
building, and problem-solving skills in a variety of
situations.
- Keen grasp of interpersonal and impact awareness.
CERTIFICATIONS & LICENSES: Project Management Professional (PMP)
certified completion of a Project Management Certificate program,
or certification in process. PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS*:
- Frequently sit, perform desk based computer tasks, grasp
lightly/fine manipulation and lift/carry/push/pull objects that
weigh up to 10 pounds.
- Occasionally stand/walk, write by hand, twist/bend/stoop/squat
and lift/carry/push/pull objects that weigh up to 20 pounds.
- Rarely use a telephone, kneel, crawl, climb ladders, reach/work
above shoulder, grasp forcefully. * - Consistent with its
obligations under the law, the University will provide reasonable
accommodation to any employee with a disability who requires
accommodation to perform the essential functions of his or her job.
WORKING CONDITIONS:
- May be exposed to extreme hot and cold temperatures, be exposed
to high voltage electricity, radiation or electromagnetic fields,
lasers, noise > 80dB TWA,
allergens/biohazards/chemicals/asbestos, or heavy metals or work on
roofs at heights greater than 10 ft.
- Travel locally and cross-university. The expected pay range for
this position is $190,194 to $215,129 per annum. Stanford
University provides pay ranges representing its good faith estimate
of what the university reasonably expects to pay for a position.
The pay offered to a selected candidate will be determined based on
factors such as (but not limited to) the scope and responsibilities
of the position, the qualifications of the selected candidate,
departmental budget availability, internal equity, geographic
location, and external market pay for comparable jobs. Additional
Information:
- Schedule: Full-time
- Job Code: 2396
- Employee Status: Regular
- Grade: L
- Requisition ID: 102834
- Work Arrangement: Hybrid Eligible
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