Director, Search and Evaluation Cardiometabolic & Endocrinology (Seaport MA)
Merck GroupAbout the role
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Ready to explore, break barriers, and discover more? We know you’ve got big plans – so do we! Our colleagues across the globe love innovating with science and technology to enrich people’s lives with our solutions in Healthcare, Life Science, and Electronics. Together, we dream big and are passionate about caring for our rich mix of people, customers, patients, and planet. That's why we are always looking for curious minds that see themselves imagining the unimaginable with us.
United As One for Patients, our purpose in Healthcare is to help create, improve and prolong lives. We develop medicines, intelligent devices and innovative technologies in therapeutic areas such as Oncology, Neurology and Fertility. Our teams work together across 6 continents with passion and relentless curiosity in order to help patients at every stage of life. Joining our Healthcare team is becoming part of a diverse, inclusive and flexible working culture, presenting great opportunities for personal development and career advancement across the globe.
This role does not offer sponsorship for work authorization. External applicants must be eligible to work in the US.
Your Role:
Drive access to key external innovations from biotech/biopharma companies globally for Cardiometabolic, Fertility & Endocrinology (CM +F&E), enabling critical advancement of the company pipeline; search and evaluate external opportunities and lead scientific and technical assessment process for potential partners, acquisitions, or licensing deals;
- Take full responsibility for Initial Assessments (IAs) as the initial step in a Due Diligence process with key functional experts and present high quality decision making documents to the Investment Board (IB) and lead respective multi-functional teams
- Partner with internal stakeholders to identify search priorities and support defining the CM + F&E partnering strategy
- Develop and keep overview of External Innovation landscape within investment priorities in alignment with the CM+F&E Therapeutic Areas;
- Drive proactive search to identify assets of interest and potential partners and guide partner selection
- Select and prioritize opportunities for further evaluation in close collaboration with Business Development counterparts
- Maintain overview of search and evaluation activities in CM+F&E and maintain a longlist of potential opportunities
- Oversee and guide filtering of potential opportunities (e.g., unsolicited, VC portfolios, conferences); execute CDA and provide aligned feedback to stakeholders
- Benchmarking of potential partners based on aligned criteria to elucidate differentiation
- Build and maintain external network (e.g., biotech/pharma/VC) and represent/position us externally towards potential partners
- Collaborate with BD colleagues for partnering discussions to assess viability / feasibility of partnership.
- Consult on assessment of risks and mitigations and ensure seamless transition of IA projects to DD Lead
- Drive identification of big rocks and consolidation of IB decision-making document to make a go/no-go decision
- Provide decision making documentation to IB and DRB level senior management to proceed into Due Diligence activities to assess Big Rocks or full data packages of external opportunities
Strategic Impact
Generating strategic value by identifying high value opportunities to develop and expand our innovative pipeline of opportunities in CM+F&E as key strategic therapeutic areas
Scope of People Responsibility:
- Develop and mentor talents (e.g. GoGlobal Trainees and Short-Term Assignees)
- Lead multi-functional assessment teams to generate IAs, DD scopes
Who You Are
Minimum Qualifications:
- University degree ( PhD) in pharmaceutical science or an equivalent qualification with high expertise, strong network, and substantial R&D experience in respective investment priority field
Preferred Qualifications:
- 5+ years experience with 2+ years in BD&L / EI
- Thorough understanding of the pharmaceutical drug discovery/development process
- Scientific profile with substantial R&D experience
- Strong leadership acumen
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