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American Heart Association - Head of Ecosystem & Portfolio Development, American Heart Association Ventures! - Dallas, Texas

Overview

As we celebrate our Centennial year, we invite you to join us in shaping the next century of impact. Be a relentless force for a world of longer, healthier lives as we remain devoted to a future of health and hope for everyone, everywhere. At the American Heart Association, your contribution matters, and so does your career.

This position can be home-based.

The Association offers many resources to help you maintain work-life harmonization through your changing needs and life situations. To help you be successful, you will have access to Heart U, our award-winning corporate university, as well as additional training and support, locally.

Responsibilities

1. Facilitate new programs that capitalize on the Association’s scientific and medical intellectual capital.
2. Establish and lead Association Ventures Community Relations/Portfolio Relations Program.
3. Create strategy for ongoing portfolio company value-add programs and provide leadership for these programs across all Association Ventures investment funds.
4. Create capacity-building educational programs for deployment across the Association’s funds and accelerator programs.
5. Identify internal teams and resources that can be effectively leveraged to build capacity and capability at portfolio companies.
6. Establish and operate new programs that contribute to optimizing portfolio company outcomes.
7. Work with the Association’s Ventures leadership to develop strategic innovation collaborations.
8. Keep track of the external venture capital and funding universe and create relationships with the venture capital community.
9. Help establish and oversee select Accelerator Programs.
10. Understand and work within the complex structures of the Association to ensure program execution.
11. Acts as an ambassador and spokesperson for the Association around innovation and investment initiatives.

Qualifications

1. Minimum of ten (10) years of corporate venture/business development/startup engagement experience.
2. Minimum of ten (10) years of experience building and negotiating partnerships and alliances.
3. Good working knowledge of healthcare venture capital and an established network of professionals.
4. Minimum of ten (10) years of experience collaborating with executives across all key sectors of healthcare.
5. Excellent communication skills with the ability to engage with high-level leaders.
6. Supervisory experience managing direct reports and/or external consultants.
7. Highly organized leader with excellent interpersonal and project management skills.
8. Travel is required (at least 20%).

Compensation – Our goal is to ensure you have a competitive base salary.

Benefits – We offer a wide array of benefits including medical, dental, vision, and life insurance.

Work-Life Harmonization – The Association offers Paid Time Off (PTO) at a minimum of 16 days per year.

EOE/Protected Veterans/Persons with Disabilities

Posted Date 4 days ago (11/8/2024 2:21 PM)