Life Sciences Deployment Strategist

The role

You will own strategic partnerships with large biopharma companies to help patients start and stay on treatments. You will manage business reviews, negotiate agreements, and design access and distribution programs for new medicine launches.

What you will do

• Own end-to-end relationships with a portfolio of life sciences partners
• Lead recurring business reviews to quantify impact on patient access and prescriber adoption
• Structure, negotiate, and manage agreements and renewals
• Define and drive opportunities to expand partnerships into new brands and therapeutic areas
• Partner with manufacturer launch teams to design access, affordability, and distribution components
• Translate partner needs into requirements for product, engineering, and operations
• Build analyses, account plans, and operating cadence to guide partnership growth

Required qualifications

• 3-8 years owning client relationships and outcomes in a demanding environment
• Fluency in the biopharma commercial landscape, including brand strategy, market access, patient services, and drug launch, or the ability to build it quickly
• Demonstrated ability to structure and negotiate complex agreements and grow partnerships over time
• Judgment to represent your company's position with conviction
• Strong analytical thinking and comfort with complex data
• Learning SQL and low-code tools
• Strong written and verbal communication
• Track record of moving quickly, finding shortcuts, and going to unreasonable lengths to deliver on goals
• High NPS with your former teammates

Nice to have

• engagement manager at a top consulting firm
• commercial or partnerships lead at a high-growth company
• client lead in life sciences services

Benefits

• Meaningful equity
• Fully covered medical, vision, and dental insurance
• Memberships for One Medical, Talkspace, Teladoc, and Kindbody
• Unlimited paid time off (PTO)
• 16 weeks of parental leave
• 401K plan setup
• FSA option
• Commuter benefits
• DashPass
• Lunch at the office every day
• Dinner at the office after 6:30 pm

About the company

Forus is building an AI-powered network that connects doctors, pharmacies, payers, and biopharma to accelerate new science to patients. The platform automates complexity between prescribing and treatment to help patients get medicine faster, cheaper, and easier.