Sr. Director Business Development, Search & Evaluation - Neurodegenerative Disease

Job Purpose

The Sr. Director Business Development, Search and Evaluation - Neurodegenerative Disease is a senior role in the R&D organization at GSK, where the role holder supports early and late-stage global business development and licensing initiatives and has a direct impact on the success of the GSK Neurodegeneration strategy and portfolio. The Search and Evaluation (S&E) group is responsible for proactively scouting external innovation to strengthen GSK’s medicines portfolio. By assembling teams of internal subject matter experts, the role holder will conduct technical evaluation and due diligence activities that ensure an in-depth understanding of strategic investment opportunities.

By effectively synthesizing and communicating the merits of potential investment opportunities, the role holder will enable enterprise decision-making related to business development opportunities.  The successful candidate will have a strong scientific and clinical background, proven project and people leadership, business and strategic acumen and excellent communication skills. In addition, the candidate will have an ability to engage and collaborate across organizational boundaries with an entrepreneurial attitude by acting with urgency and agility.

Key Responsibilities:

This role will provide YOU the opportunity to lead key activities to progress YOUR career, these responsibilities include some of the following:

• Synthesize varied and vast information including clinical data, competitive landscape, market, and investment trends to formulate business cases that will deliver substantial enterprise value to GSK.

• Possess gravitas and significant learning agility allowing for fluency across disciplines, allowing the role holder to drive constructive challenge and debate amongst senior stakeholders to ensure the best outcomes for GSK.

• Acts with substantial urgency and entrepreneurial attitude in driving the deal process to go/no-go decisions.

• Engage with the life science investment and biotech community, alongside senior GSK executives, to represent GSK Neurodegeneration strategic initiatives and business priorities to build relationships and industry-leading deal flow.

• Establishing and leading initial technical evaluation and formal diligence processes to drive the rigorous scientific evaluation of potential assets and deliver clear recommendations to key governance bodies and senior GSK leadership.

• Serving as the primary point of contact with the external partner throughout the deal process including during submission and negotiation of non-binding term sheet through to deal execution.

• Works collaboratively with the Transactional lead during negotiation of term sheets and definitive agreements.

• Serving as the internal lead in both preparation and presentation of business case and other briefing materials for senior management with support from functions across the business.

• Working with key stakeholders and cross-functional teams to ensure effective communication, efficient decision-making, to support completion of transactions in a timely manner.

• Establishes and maintains a broad network of internal and external stakeholders and maintains a high level of external visibility, ensuring GSK appears as the Partner of Choice for the Biotech community.

• Expert in industry trends and awareness of competitor datasets in GSK areas of strategic focus.

Why you?

Basic Qualifications:

We are looking for professionals with these required skills to achieve our goals:

• Advanced degree (such as MS, MBA, PhD, PharmD, JD, MD)

• 5 plus years of experience in the life sciences industry with focus on neuroscience

• 3 plus years of experience in business development, search & evaluation, or alliance management; deal sheet submission is required

• Experience in pharmaceutical R&D, demonstrating international experience in multiple cultures and drug discovery / clinical environments.

• Experience in drug discovery and development

Preferred Qualifications:

If you have the following characteristics, it would be a plus:

• Ability to think critically, creatively and to anticipate and solve problems

• Ability to navigate and be successful in a fast-paced, matrixed work environment

• Proven innovation driven leadership abilities in a drug discovery environment with demonstrable knowledge of drug development

• Experience interacting and communicating effectively with senior executi