Seasonal Alliance Manager, Agriculture in Massachusetts
Job Description
Our mission is to make biology easier to engineer. Ginkgo is constructing, editing, and redesigning the living world in order to answer the globes growing challenges in health, energy, food, materials, and more. Our bioengineers make use of an in-house automated foundry for designing and building new organisms.
As an Alliance Manager, you will be the primary contact and overall relationship holder for Ginkgo’s customers, with responsibility for the success of at least one (and often multiple) major Ginkgo partnerships. Your role sits at the nexus of Ginkgos mission and strategy, and as the team member enabling our partners success on Ginkgos platform, you will be uniquely positioned to create impact both for our partners and for Ginkgo at large.
Alliance Management at Ginkgo is part of the Commercial Operations team, and we are looking to hire motivated candidates across multiple levels: Manager, Associate Director, and Director. Senior Alliance Manager candidates will report directly to the Head of Commercial Operations at Ginkgo, and own the success of Alliance Management across an industry vertical.
As an Alliance Manager, you will have a high impact and varied role, acting as both the account portfolio manager who understands the overall customer strategy and advocates for the partners needs, and also as the product manager who ensures that the scientific direction being driven by the Ginkgo technical team is building towards a commercially successful product for our partner. Since you are the primary interface with our external partners at various levels (from executive leadership to technical teams), you will be in charge of driving the strategy, tactical execution, account growth, and coordination of our diverse partnerships. Success in this role comes with the ability to effectively leverage the full breadth of the Ginkgo platform by coordinating with all of our constituent teams, including finance, creative, legal, commercial, technical, and corporate development.
Please note: This role requires the ability to be onsite at our Boston offices for 3+ days per week, in addition to traveling as necessary.
Responsibilities
Act as the CEO of at least one Ginkgo partnership alliance, ensuring its overall success
Maintain a strong relationship/partnership, through regular discussions and collaborations across all levels of the partners organization (from technical to executive)
Work jointly with partners to identify and scope out new project opportunities where Ginkgo is uniquely positioned to act as a valuable partner
Collaborate with partners to understand their commercial goals and overall product roadmaps, and ensure that this context is incorporated into Ginkgos project scoping and delivery
Work with Ginkgo technical teams to oversee and track the progress of projects and their execution to ensure high quality and timely deliverables
Be an excellent communicator, synthesizing complex information from disparate sources into concise and clear narratives, both internally to Ginkgo and externally with other partners
Track project costs and forecast project revenue, owning the overall P&L of the account
Work with our internal Commercial Operations development team to build and improve systems for enabling customer success
Manage other members of the Commercial Operations team (level-dependent)
Travel as necessary
Minimum Requirements
Bachelors degree with a minimum of 3+ years of relevant work experience in partner-facing roles (e.g. business development, management consulting, strategic account management) Level will depend on education and years of experience.
2-3 years of biology, chemistry, biotechnology, or other scientific experience required (in business or technical role)
MBA and/or PhD is a plus
Exceptional communication and organizational skills
Ability to work effectively with cross-functional teams and mobilize people across the organization, and to learn quickly and thrive in a fast-paced environment
Experience managing and coordinating small teams (3 to 7 people) for project execution is a plus
Strong aptitude for cultivating working relationships at all levels of management, both internally and externally
Preferred Capabilities and Experience
Working knowledge of the agriculture industry – 2+ years experience in agriculture or knowledge of development pipelines for biologicals in agriculture
To learn more about Ginkgo, visit www.ginkgobioworks.com/press/ or check out some curated press below:
What is it really like to take your company public via a SPAC? One Boston biotech shares its journey (Fortune)
Ginkgo Bioworks resizes the definition of going big in biotech, raising $2.5B in a record SPAC deal that weighs in with a whopping $15B-plus valuation (Endpoints News)
Ginkgo Bioworks CEO on scaling up Covid-19 testing: If we try, we can win (CNBC)
Ginkgo raises $70 million to ramp up COVID-19 testing for employers, universities (Boston Globe)
Ginkgo Bioworks Redirects Its Biotech Platform to Coronavirus (Wall Street Journal)
Ginkgo Bioworks Provides Support on Process Optimization to Moderna for COVID-19 Response (PRNewswire)
The Life Factory: Synthetic Organisms From This $1.4 Billion Startup Will Revolutionize Manufacturing (Forbes)
Synthetic Bio Pioneer Ginkgo Raises $290 Million in New Funding (Bloomberg)
Ginkgo Bioworks raises $350 million fund for biotech spinouts (Reuters)
Can This Company Convince You to Love GMOs? (The Atlantic)
We also feel that its important to point out the obvious here theres a serious lack of diversity in our industry, and that needs to change. Our goal is to help drive that change. Ginkgo is deeply committed to diversity, equity, and inclusion in all of its practices, especially when it comes to growing our team. Our culture promotes inclusion and embraces how rewarding it is to work with people from all walks of life.
Were developing a powerful biological engineering platform, so we must remain mindful of the many ways our technology can and will impact people around the world. We care about how our platform is used, and having a diverse team to build it gives us the best chance that its something well be proud of as it continues to grow. Therefore, its critical that we incorporate the diverse voices and visions of all those who play a role in the future of biology.
It is the policy of Ginkgo Bioworks to provide equal employment opportunities to all employees, employment applicants, and EOE disability/vet.
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