Drive Growth as a Business Development Manager! An innovative biotherapeutics company in Kendall Square, dedicated to developing life-changing therapies for patients with unmet medical needs, is looking for a Business Development Manager to join their team. In this leadership role, you will drive growth through partnerships, alliances, licensing deals, and acquisitions of novel therapeutics.
You’ll be key in sourcing, evaluating, structuring, and negotiating strategic opportunities that align with the company’s goals. Reporting directly to the CEO, you’ll have a direct impact on the company’s success.
If you’re a proactive, results-oriented professional with a passion for forging meaningful partnerships, this is your chance to make a real difference!
What You'll Do
- Help develop and implement partnering strategy with biotech/pharma companies, universities, and non-profit organizations.
- Identify licensing and acquisition opportunities for novel therapeutics and execute deals.
- Engage and lead internal and external people and resources to demonstrate our advantages to external partners such as academic institutions, non-profit organizations, and biotech/pharmaceutical companies.
- Identify and develop new strategic collaboration opportunities to help us achieve its scientific and corporate objectives.
- Collaborate with internal stakeholders to ensure our collaborations are coordinated across functions and aligned to the overarching partnering strategy.
- Lead outreach and negotiations of these collaborations with both internal stakeholders and stakeholders to close the alliance deals and manage the relationship.
- Evaluate alliance and partnership trends and provide analysis and recommendations to management.
- Complete negotiations and transactions for R&D and clinical collaborations.
What You Need
- 5+ years of relevant biotech/pharma industry experience in a corporate strategy or business development role and with a strong background in science.
- Knowledge of next-generation biologics and an extensive network of relevant industry contacts.
- Knowledge and experience in oncology, immunology, and/or cell therapy preferred.
- Demonstrated track record of negotiating and closing a wide range of business agreements, including partnerships, joint ventures, licensing agreements, co-promotions, strategic alliances, and other types of corporate ventures.
- In-depth understanding of how business strategies and decisions impact financial, operational, and sales results.
- Strong leadership qualities and desire to grow and lead a team.
- Business acumen and ability to negotiate deals.
- Experience working across different R&D and delivery functions within an organization to meet corporate development goals.
- An approach that is hands-on, results-oriented, and resourceful.
- Cross‐functional working experience in a matrix environment.
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
- Ability to work in a fast-changing environment and eagerness to learn new things.
- A Ph.D. or Master’s Degree in a life science-related field is preferred but not required.
Salary & Benefits
- Location: Cambridge, MA
- Salary: $160,000 - $200,000/year.
- Onsite
- Full time
- Monday through Friday
- Health, vision, and dental insurance.
- Matching 401K (up to 3%)
- 12 paid vacation days to start, 4 personal days, 13 sick days
$160,000 - $200,000 a year
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