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About The Job
The Director, BioPharma Strategic Transactions is a key member of the BioPharma Team and Head of the Transaction Excellence team. This position works collaboratively across BioPharma and as part of the BEP and BPD teams. This position works with external partners to drive innovation in and guidance for deals that can support growth in more complex, solution-based or end-to-end partnerships.
Key Responsibilities
Basic Qualifications:
The Director, BioPharma Strategic Transactions is a key member of the BioPharma Team and Head of the Transaction Excellence team. This position works collaboratively across BioPharma and as part of the BEP and BPD teams. This position works with external partners to drive innovation in and guidance for deals that can support growth in more complex, solution-based or end-to-end partnerships.
Key Responsibilities
- Provide strategic leadership on the development and structuring of novel, complex, end-to-end solutions-based deals.
- Manage the Transaction Excellence team of business development managers to identify needs and opportunities to evolve our deal structure for strategic partnerships and new business.
- Lead the development and delivery of guidance that can support value creation and deal processes that streamline and expedite time from opportunity to deal execution.
- Work closely with legal, compliance and others as needed to develop deal templates that can be leveraged by partner-facing teams.
- Act as internal thought partner for externally-facing deal team members and ensure consistency in approaches across partners by training and provision of expertise.
- Support the development of overarching BioPharma transaction strategy.
- Maintain availability to work outside of a regularly scheduled shift.
- Travel domestically and internationally up to 20% of the time.
- Lead/support other projects as periodically assigned.
Basic Qualifications:
- Advanced degree in business or a scientific discipline
- 10 years business development, alliance management experience in a diagnostic company with a focus in Oncology
- Significant experience partnering with biopharmaceutical companies, contract negotiation and deal execution
- Experience leading and working collaboratively in multi-disciplinary teams, across multiple functional areas and development phases
- Experience working in dynamic teams; demonstrated ability to operate and deliver in a fast pace environment and with ambiguity
- Good knowledge of global oncology therapeutics, biomarker & genomics markets
- Strong communication skills and ability to present effectively across a range of stakeholders
- Understanding of HIPAA and importance of privacy of patient data
- Commitment to reflect Foundation Medicine's values: Integrity, Courage, Passion
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