Director, Business Development

What if… you could join an organization that creates, resources, and builds life sciences companies that invent breakthrough technologies in order to transform health care and sustainability?

Montai Health is a privately held, early-stage biotechnology company developing a platform for understanding and leveraging complex molecular interactions within organisms to solve global challenges in human health and sustainability. The company leverages a multidisciplinary approach that integrates tools ranging from machine learning and big data to multi-omics and high-throughput screening.

At Montai, we nurture a bold, spirited and leading-edge culture dedicated to strengthening human health:

• We are one team with omnidirectional trust, empowered and accountable
• We are strong as individuals but stronger as a team and we are committed to excellence
• We have a sense of urgency and persistence and we are crazily confident that we can make a difference
• We need to be comfortable with the uncomfortable and be rigorous and we recognize that failure is data
• We care for diversity in people, thought, personality, opinions, background and distinctiveness
• We have a sense of humor to help us manage through our strategic noise

Montai is seeking a highly motivated Director of Business Development. This person will be part of the strategic team building a new company. We are utilizing AI and ML to create new small molecules to solve high unmet need situations in chronic autoimmune diseases. The platform is enabling us to create optionality and finding the right pharma partner on this journey will be key.

Responsibilities: 

Strategic Leadership

• Be part of the company leadership team
• Develop the BD strategy
• Give input into the company’s strategy and portfolio discussion

Business Development 

• Be part of the strategic BD discussions which create the best optionality for Montai
• Administer day-to-day BD activities, including facilitating cross-functional Partnership team meetings 
• Lead team meeting discussions to drive decision-making, prepare agenda and minutes 
• Maintain BD tracker 
• Coordinate operations internal planning and meetings for potential partnerships, including: 
• Coordinate materials for meeting and prep meetings 
• Create company/individual profiles in advance of meetings 
• Ensure post meeting notes and follow up 
• Responsibility for data room coordination & management 
• Coordinate with other departments preparing and managing data room 
• Manage data room access and external tracking 
• Support deal term development – keeping up on partnership trends, identify and source deal benchmarks, collaborate with Partnership team on term drafting 
• Coordinate BD activities and learnings with Flagship Business Development team 

Alliance Management (AM) 

• Plan and manage the operational aspects of the alliance 
• Serve as main point-of-contact into Montai for the partner; likely working with their AM 
• Proactively tracks, monitor and communicates contract achievements, obligations and any financial payments to project team leaders and management 
• Prepares, in coordination with partner AM, for joint steering meetings -agenda, preparation of materials, minutes, ensure follow up on Montai action items 

Competitive Intelligence 

• Maintain competitive intelligence tracker, provide routine updates to CI dashboard; monitor developments in the field and industry 
• Assist CSO and CMO in profiling therapeutic areas for potential new development opportunities 

Qualifications:

• 4+ years BD experience
• MBA preferred
• Scientific curiosity/understanding is critical
• Strategic thinking
• Being comfortable to work in a highly paced changing environment

More About Flagship Pioneering

Flagship Pioneering has conceived of and created companies such as Moderna Therapeutics (NASDAQ: MRNA), Editas Medicine (NASDAQ: EDIT), Omega Therapeutics (NASDAQ: OMGA), Seres Therapeutics (NASDAQ: MCRB), and Indigo Agriculture. Since its launch in 2000, Flagship has applied its unique hypothesis-driven innovation process to originate and foster more than 100 scientific ventures. In 2021, Flagship Pioneering was ranked 12th globally on Fortune’s “Change the World” list, an annual ranking of companies that have made a positive social and environmental impact through activities that are part of their core business strategies.

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