Manager-Alliance

• Job Type: Officer of Administration
• Bargaining Unit:
• Regular/Temporary: Regular
• End Date if Temporary:
• Hours Per Week: 35 hrs/wk
• Standard Work Schedule:
• Building:
• Salary Range: $80,000 - $94,000

Position Summary

Columbia Technology Ventures is the technology transfer office for Columbia University and a central location for many of the technology development initiatives, entrepreneurial activities, external industry collaborations, and commercially-oriented multidisciplinary technology innovations across the university. CTV's core mission is to facilitate the transfer of inventions from academic research labs to the market for the benefit of society on a local, national, and global basis. Each year, CTV manages more than 400 invention disclosures, 100 license deals, and 20 - 30 new IP-backed startups, involving over 750 inventors across Columbia's campuses. CTV currently has over 1,500 patent assets available for licensing, across research fields such as bio, IT, clean tech, devices, big data, nanotechnology, materials science, and more.

CTV has extensive experience founding and supporting technology initiatives to enable promising technologies to accelerate across the "valley of death" and reach the market as quickly and successfully as possible. Many of these initiatives are explicitly multi-institutional, requiring extensive collaboration with our peer universities and their tech transfer offices. A few of the organizations CTV has been instrumental in establishing are the Beiersdorf Skin Science Collaboration, the Irving Institute Cancer Drug Discovery Program , and the Columbia Biomedical Technology Accelerator (Columbia BiomedX), formally the Columbia-Coulter Translational Research Partnership in partnership with the Herbert Irving Institute Cancer Center. In addition, Translational Therapeutics (TRx) Resource was launched in 2016, in collaboration with the Irving Institute for Clinical and Translational Research and The Clinical Trials Office, to advance novel therapeutics from the lab towards the path of commercialization and clinical implementation.

CTV's efforts are backed by 45 full time staff and an additional 30+ graduate student interns (CTV Fellows), providing broad support to the Columbia community and other stakeholders with marketing, legal (patents, contracts, etc.), business start-up help, and administrative tasks. CTV also runs an Executive-in-Residence program, which brings seasoned industry executives, serial entrepreneurs, and investors to campus to support faculty and student entrepreneurial activities.

The Alliance Manager (AM) will report to the Director, Business Development, Portfolio Management & L2M Network and support the growing portfolio of technologies advancing towards start-up formation. The Alliance Manager will join CTV's efforts in developing, managing and translating Columbia's oncology research portfolio with a focus on projects that are 12-18 months from a license to industry or start up as well as accelerating the path towards commercialization for early-stage technologies. The Alliance Manager will work closely with HICCC to develop significant, lasting and multi-disciplinary collaborative partnerships on the cutting edge of university innovation and scholarship.

Additionally, the Alliance Manager will work closely with Industry, Investors, CTV licensing officers, the Lab to Market Accelerator Network, the Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center as well as other organizations within Columbia to develop strategic relationships with industry as well as identify a pipeline of oncology-related projects for licenses.

The Director, Business Development, Portfolio Management & L2M Network may request the Alliance Manager to perform other roles as needed.

Responsibilities

Duties include:

• Working with the licensing and patent teams at CTV to review projects that are high priority candidates for industry licenses or new company formation, working with CTV's Lab to Market team, Executives in Residence and industry contacts to develop a path for research funding and industry partnerships for high priority oncology-related projects. The AM will assist the research teams and licensing officers with administrative tasks, project management, industry outreach and preparation of pitch material.

• The AM will support accelerator programs aimed at supporting early-stage oncology-related projects as well as other programs offered by CTV in the area of early-stage commercialization.

• The AM will work with HICCC to establish and maintain a central dashboard of industry relationships, conduct prospective research to identify potential industry partners, coordinate events and meetings with industry partners and faculty, and attend local networking events and conferences to deepen relationships with industry around oncology.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree and/or equivalent 2 years of minimum related experience.
• The most important criteria for this job are an extraordinary ability to multi-task effectively and efficiently, and to track projects over time at varying degrees of detail. Accordingly, candidate must have outstanding organizational skills and be extremely detail-oriented in a high-volume dynamic environment.
• Experience at working both independently and in a team-oriented, collaborative environment is essential.
• Must be able to conform to shifting priorities, demands and timelines through analytical and problem-solving capabilities, and react to project adjustments and alterations promptly and efficiently.
• Must be able to interact in oral and written form with a wide variety of stakeholders, including faculty, industry representatives, external consultants, and Columbia's project administrators.

Preferred Qualifications

• PhD, JD, MBA, or other graduate degree.
• Familiarity with cancer research.

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