Seventeen years of strategic development collaborations with large pharma partners. Joint Steering Committees chaired, governance built from scratch, high-stakes contracts negotiated, active litigation resolved. Delivered inside your organisation as an interim role, or alongside your team as an external advisory engagement.
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A senior Alliance Director position needs coverage during recruitment, parental leave, or integration phase.
A strategic alliance has drifted. Governance is unclear. Performance is off track. Executive patience is running out.
A new partnership is being structured. The deal team needs senior alliance input on governance, decision rights, and operational readiness before signature.
Alliance disputes are escalating. Litigation is possible. Independent expertise is needed to de-escalate or to support legal counsel with operational insight.
Full accountability for the role during transitions, leaves, or while you recruit. Embedded in your organisation, operating under your governance, reporting to your leadership. Covers Joint Steering Committee chairmanship, cross-functional alignment across clinical, CMC, regulatory, legal and finance, executive reporting, and knowledge transfer on exit. Typical duration: three to twelve months.
Independent review and redesign of joint governance across complex multi-partner portfolios. Committee architecture, decision rights, escalation paths, quorum and voting rules, executive dashboards. Delivered in close collaboration with legal and commercial teams, with clear documentation and board-level reporting.
Structured diagnostic of an existing alliance against performance, governance, partner behaviour and contract alignment. Root cause analysis, senior-level mediation where needed, and a concrete recovery plan with clear owners, timelines, and measurable commitments from both sides.
Facilitated partner conversations, structured issue logs, and pre-arbitration work. When disputes escalate, VAM supports legal counsel with operational insight, metadata-driven investigation, and formal correspondence drafting. Experience includes resolution of active litigation through forensic review of partner-issued documentation.
Senior alliance input during term sheet, in-licensing, and out-licensing negotiations. Governance and economic modelling, Quality Agreement drafting, counterparty analysis. Works alongside your legal and business development teams to ensure the alliance is operationally sound before ink dries.
Coordination across Medical, Commercial, Tech Ops, QA, supply chain and distribution in regulated markets. Early Access programme support, regulatory compliance oversight, and partner enablement across the pre-launch to launch window. Direct experience supporting FDA and EMA audits and inspection readiness in sterile manufacturing environments.
Resolved active litigation through metadata-driven investigation, preserving market entry and exiting an outlicensing in a partner market.
Rebuilt trust after a major data handling incident through direct executive engagement, securing significant incremental business and a new global contract with a strategic account.
Led alliances for oncology products from contract execution through launch across sixteen markets in MENA, Russia, Turkey, and Israel.
Reset a failing distribution partnership through formal legal correspondence and renegotiation, restoring performance accountability.
