Senior Director Due Diligence

 

Work Your Magic with us! Start your next chapter and join EMD Serono.

 

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

 

We are currently seeking to appoint Senior Director level, Due Diligence Leads to oversee due diligence (DD) activities in each of our key disease areas of Oncology, Neurology or Immunology, respectively. Working within a newly formed team, you will lead on all scientific and technical due diligence processes for potential partnering, acquisitions, or licensing deals. The role will require you to utilise your own expertise in global drug development, as well as the expertise of other internal and external experts to deliver full due diligence assessments to senior management to support key investment decision making.

 

Who you are - Minimum Qualifications

 

• MD (MBBS) or equivalent qualification. 

• Expert (minimum 8+ years experience) in global drug development in one of the relevant disease area investment priority fields; Oncology, Neurology or Immunology.

• A proven Program Leader with experience (minimum 8 years) and demostrable track record of leading multidisciplinary global project teams in the pharmaceutical or biotechnology industry, potentially as a Global Programme Head of similar.

• An experienced professional with significant understanding of the overall pharmaceutical drug development process, with credible hands-on R&D expertise in mid-late stage clinical development.

• A curious drug development leader who may have conducted Due Diligence activities as part of your current position who wishes to move into a critical R&D business role aimed and delivering new treatments to patients. 

 

Preferred Requirments

 

• Excellent communication skills.

• Excellent English, oral and written.

• Excellent Analytical skills.

• Experience of working in cross functional matrix teams.

• Experience working as a sole contributor.

What we offer: We are curious minds that come from a broad range of backgrounds, perspectives, and life experiences. We celebrate all dimensions of diversity and believe that it drives excellence and innovation, strengthening our ability to lead in science and technology. We are committed to creating access and opportunities for all to develop and grow at your own pace. Join us in building a culture of inclusion and belonging that impacts millions and empowers everyone to work their magic and champion human progress!
 
Apply now and become a part of our diverse team!

 

If you would like to know more about what diversity, equity, and inclusion means to us, please visit https://www.emdgroup.com/en/company/press-positions.html