Director, Enabling Technologies Search & Evaluation

Director, Business Development & Licensing Enabling Technologies Search and Evaluation

Our Business Development & Licensing organization is a global team comprising professionals who specialize in areas such as search & evaluation, transactions, competitive intelligence, commercial business development, financial evaluation & analysis, alliance management, ventures, and more. Working together, our team cultivates external partnerships that grow our portfolio in meaningful ways. The Director, Business Development & Licensing Enabling Technologies Search and Evaluation, will be a key contributor to our company efforts to expand core capabilities in our discovery and development organizations. You will partner with our company scientists and functional area leadership to identify technology areas of strategic importance, establish strong relationships with external scientific organizations, work cross-functionally to influence and co-develop scientifically meaningful partnerships, and present those opportunities to senior leadership for advancement. This individual will support a broad range of technology areas in discovery and development with the expectation that their responsibility will expand as they become proficient in the job role. This individual may also support precision medicine needs including new biomarker technologies, digital pathology, and companion diagnostics in oncology and other therapeutic areas.

Primary Activities :

• Identify, evaluate, and execute business development opportunities with a focus on cutting-edge science across a wide range of functional areas to enhance and / or expand our company pipeline.
• Manage a portfolio of complex business development projects, serving as the primary scientific contact for potential licensing, acquisition, collaborations, co-development agreements, and strategic alliances in support of the relevant opportunity space.
• Act as our company point of contact for external parties seeking business opportunities with our company, demonstrating our ethics and values in every interaction.
• Lead deep scientific due diligence, ensuring the integration of internal subject matter expert input and the quality of formal due diligence output.
• Work closely with transaction leads, legal, commercial, and financial analysis teams to ensure relevant deals of highest priority are being advanced and executed on appropriate timelines.
• Present compelling scientific business opportunities to senior leadership in governance review meetings.
• Contribute to the business development strategy of partner scientific areas in conjunction with functional area and clinical development leadership.
• Co-chair licensing committee meetings and communicate business development opportunities to internal subject matter experts.
• Collaborate with functional areas, including discovery, preclinical, clinical, and commercial teams, as well as commercial business development colleagues, to ensure alignment between activities and business development needs relating to the functional area needs.
• Provide thorough and timely assessments and updates to appropriate management levels to ensure efficient communication and seamless cross functional collaboration.
• Work closely with search and evaluation colleagues in our company business development team to ensure comprehensive worldwide coverage of the relevant opportunity space and to direct opportunities appropriately.
• Proactively identify and solve complex problems that impact the direction of the business.
• Serve as a spokesperson for our company by communicating the licensing strategy both internally and externally, and present on behalf of our company at industry networking events, scientific conferences, and other venues.
• Individual contributor role.

Education :

Required :

Our ability to excel depends on the integrity, knowledge, imagination, skill, and diversity of our team. We prioritize an inclusive culture of respect, encouragement, and teamwork. Members of our global team have the opportunity to collaborate with talented and dedicated colleagues, while developing their own careers.

Required Skills : Acquisitions Divestitures, Biomarkers, Biopharmaceuticals, Biopharmaceutics, Business Acumen, Business Development, Business Operations, Business Opportunities, Clinical Diagnostics, Companion Diagnostics (CDx), Development Strategy, Diagnostics, Drug Discovery Development, Executive Presence, Immunoassays, Precision Medicine (PM), Project Prioritization, Self Motivation, Strategic Licensing

Preferred Skills : Current Employees apply HERE

U.S. Hybrid Work Model

The salary range for this role is $169,700.00 - $267,200.00 This is the lowest to highest salary we in good faith believe we would pay for this role at the time of this posting. An employee's position within the salary range will be based on several factors including, but not limited to relevant education, qualifications, certifications, experience, skills, geographic location, government requirements, and business or organizational needs. The successful candidate will be eligible for annual bonus and long-term incentive, if applicable. We offer a comprehensive package of benefits. Available benefits include medical, dental, vision healthcare and other insurance benefits (for employee and family), retirement benefits, including 401(k), paid holidays, vacation, and compassionate and sick days. More information about benefits is available at https : / / jobs.merck.com / us / en / compensation-and-benefits .

You can apply for this role through https : / / jobs.merck.com / us / en (or via the Workday Jobs Hub if you are a current employee). The application deadline for this position is stated on this posting.

Requisition ID : R370598