Head, Business Development and Licensing - Pharmaceutical Sciences (Director)

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Job Description

How you will contribute:

• Manage the Business Development and Licensing process in Pharmaceutical Sciences including, organizing material for senior leadership review and endorsement, leading a council of senior members in the functions to strategically plan for inbound programs, manage DD teams and hold teams accountable for deliverables along the entire BD process.

• Lead the confidential review and CMC due diligence assessment process to evaluate potential partnering opportunities, including collaborations, platform technologies, preclinical and clinical stage assets, that are aligned with Takeda's therapeutic areas and global or regional business development strategies

• Manage and communicate complex business development and diligence subject matter focused on CMC assessments related to the opportunity including the development of a diligence report, risk evaluation and mitigation strategy, governance presentations, and contract review

• Create and revise processes to ensure high- functioning project management of CMC Business Development & Licensing activities. Process improvements include training and developing a network of Pharm Sci subject matter experts across all teams, modalities and therapeutic areas to support and lead diligence, partnering, in-licensing/out-licensing, divesting, and M&A

Accountabilities:

• Work with partners and lead teams to guide due diligence assessments , efficient decision-making, and completion of transactions promptly. Report on progress and important risks to senior leadership

• Form partnerships with the Global and Functional Business Development Teams to promote prioritized partnering opportunities to non-binding and binding term sheets, agreement negotiation, and deal execution stages

• Communicate business strategies and capabilities internally and externally, present single and team recommendations and promote collaboration

• Have basic knowledge of business development practices, e.g. basic understanding of legal frameworks such as CDAs, MTAs, NBTS, and agreements, and understanding of deal frameworks, and financial modeling

• Connect unrelated concepts, obtain insights for informing decision-marking under uncertainty, with limited time, and with imperfect information

• Lead within area of expertise and help build internal know how to establish best practices and standardized approach for the execution and delivery of evaluation results when called upon for evaluating BD deals and ensuring continuous improvement in their processes and standards

• Be a role model for Takeda-ism, the Leadership Behaviors and the 4 commitments (PTRB) in everything that is done.

Technical/Functional Expertise:

• Experience in Pharmaceutical CMC Development

• Experience with the full drug development process across modalities (biologics, small molecule, plasma derived therapy, gene therapy, and cell therapy)

• Understanding of deal structure; financial input to business cases including COGS, CapEx, and Opex estimates

• Experience managing, and negotiating contracts agreements

• Experience in Business development in the Pharmaceutical / Biotechnology industry

• Commitment to creating/developing efficient processes and contributing to a high-performing te