Head of Business Development

Join Us as Head of Business Development at St. Jude!

We are seeking a visionary leader to serve as our Head of Business Development, responsible for crafting and executing bold strategies that connect St. Jude with industry partners.
In this pivotal role, you’ll lead transformative transactions that expand access to the groundbreaking technologies, innovations, and scientific discoveries developed at St. Jude—accelerating our mission-driven research and amplifying our global impact.
If you're passionate about advancing science and making a difference in the world, we invite you to apply and be part of a team that’s changing the future of healthcare.

This position is open to remote consideration.

Job Responsibilities:

• Define vision and strategy for advancing innovations that reduce the burden of catastrophic pediatric diseases to market pathways, along with Head Innovation Translation.
• Develop a system to identify innovations with market translation potential and methodologies to determine relative priority for pursuing and developing the innovations that meet the organization’s mission for market pathways, along with the Head Innovation Translation.
• Oversee the conduct of due diligence, including development, market, and regulatory assessments, and other required aspects to determine market feasibility of innovations, along with the Head Innovation Translation.
• Once market feasibility is reasonably established for on mission innovations, oversee the creation of a translation plan to market innovations to industry collaborators/partners, life sciences executives, investors, and investment bankers.
• Lead business development efforts for the translation of innovations to market pathways, including strategic industry partnerships and collaborations, licenses, and startup executive and investor recruitment.
• Engage with and act as the primary point of contact for internal stakeholders conducting research and making discoveries to drive the successful development of innovations for translation to market pathways.
• Oversight of external consultants and services engaged to perform work as required.
• Ensure early, close, and continuous collaboration with the organization’s Clinical, Regulatory, Manufacturing, Legal, Compliance, and other teams for reporting, awareness, smooth handoffs, co-management, and full engagement to achieve consistency, compliance with organizational policies, industry regulations, and ethical standards.
• Build and maintain relationships with internal and external key stakeholders and collaborators, including researchers, scientists, doctors, investors, industry partners, and other institutions to optimize outcomes.
• Represent the organization at industry conferences, events, and with industry partners, investors and entrepreneurs.
• Monitor industry trends and competitive landscape to identify opportunities for growth and innovation.
• Design new processes and supporting business structures and recommend solutions that drive process standardization and simplification across the department to more effectively translate innovations to market pathways.
• As the department strategy evolves, prepare alternative development and risk management scenarios, program updates and options and recommendations through proactive communication to the teams and senior leaders.
• Drive decision making, facilitate issue resolution, problem-solving, risk management, and contingency planning.
• Establish and maintain relationships with external institutions, industry collaborators/partners, life sciences executives, investors, and investment bankers.
• Define overall objectives, scope, plans, resource planning and budgeting, and metrics for tracking progress.
• Provide strategic insights to senior leadership around roadmap and management of innovation development and institutional objectives.
• Collaborate with key opinion leaders in internal functions and external collaborative organizations to optimize organizational outcomes.
• Provide input into overall budget and variance management for programs.
• Establish approaches for engagement and governance with external collaborators/partners.
• Recruit, coach and develop individuals and ensure they have rich career experiences and rotational opportunities.
• Perform other duties as assigned to meet the goals and objectives of the department and institution.
• Maintain regular and predictable attendance.

Minimum Education and/or Training:

• Ph.D. in life sciences (ex. Biology, Chemistry, Biochemistry, Physics) or MD required.

Minimum Experience:

• Ten (10) years’ experience in the life sciences industry and experience in executive leaderships roles with su