Associate Director, Business Development, Discovery Transactions

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Brief Description of Position • Transact Globally to Provide Business Support to our company's Research Laboratories; Work with our company's Research Laboratories, internal partners, and global external collaborators to draft, negotiate and execute a variety of agreement types to further the knowledge, pipeline and reputation of our company.

• Advance discovery research via engagement and collaboration with universities, government, not-for-profits, biotech and pharma to support our company's Research Laboratories key objectives and programs, provide access to critical assets, reagents, technologies, access external innovation, and protect our company's intellectual property.

• Effectively work cross-functionally and collaboratively with Discovery Transaction colleagues, Corporate Legal, Patent Legal, Research Procurement, Sourcing, our company's Research Laboratories Finance, Clinical Global Agreements Management, Compliance, Discovery Operations, Privacy Office, and our company's Research Laboratories stakeholders and management to transact Agreements in support of our company's Research Laboratories projects to ensure Freedom to Operate and protect our company's Intellectual Property (IP).

• Actively listen and seek to understand differing perspectives. Show leadership by working together to achieve common goals. Collaborate with stakeholders to ensure transparency.

• Speak openly, honestly and with conviction; have the courage to take appropriate risks and make difficult decisions.

• Adhere to the highest standards of trustworthy and ethical behavior in all interactions and hold others to the same standards; comply with all laws, policies, and regulations; identify and address ethical issues without hesitation. 

• Work with LKR team to utilize SAP/COMET as appropriate for funded agreements and to  Add vendors and enter contracts into SAP as needed.   Capture SAP payment information in LKR records and Midas Memos. 

• Adhere to all our company's policies on expenses and expense reporting. If a manager, follow “U.S. Manager’s Policies”.

• Contribute to our company's Research Laboratories transformation efforts through communicating our company's vision and reinforcing our company's cultural attributes (ethics and integrity, respect and candor, scientific excellence and ROI, and confidence and humility). 

• Within BD&L: Support transformation goals of decreasing cycle time, increasing productivity, and increasing employee engagement. 

• Develop prioritized cross-franchise lists of early space academic and biotech collaborations in support of our company's Research Laboratories objectives. 

• Execute or enable Discovery Transaction Managers (both TMs and DTMs) to execute, non-exclusive or patent licenses, study agreements, evaluation agreements, MTAs, consulting agreements, non-disclosure agreements, and research collaboration agreements in support of our company's Research Laboratories objectives. 

• Make timely, rapid and disciplined decisions at the appropriate level with the relevant data and support them once made. Be aware of our company's Policies and Grants of Authority.  Alert BD&L management to major upcoming decision points in agreements.

• Drive Results by setting clear performance standards; overcoming obstacles; holding ourselves and others accountable for achieving results. 

• Participate in Discovery Transactions once monthly Senior Staff meetings, Best Practices meetings, and every other week face to face meetings with Direct Reports. Encourage and emulate collaboration and a “Team” environment within the DT group. 

• Continue active participation and membership in Licensing Executive Society (LES) , University-Industry Development Partnership (UIDP) and Association of University Technology Managers (AUTM). 

• Maintain and encourage others to maintain LES CLP certificate 

• Provide visible leadership to our company's Research Laboratories clients about compliance and applicable laws and regulations. 

• Memorialize all interactions in LKR to ensure internal compliance. Follow written guidelines for all LKR documentation for agreements. Enter appropriate descriptions such that report generated from LKR needs no further editing.  Follow all BD&L processes for review, approval, and documentation of licensing opportunities.

• Provide input to the LKR re-platforming team as appropriate to ensure that improvement of the RFA process is highlighted and the requirements of the DTMs and TMs are met. 

  Qualifications, Skills & Experience • Bachelor’s in science/law; advanced degree preferred.

• Minimum of 5 years experience in contract negotiation with a fundamental understanding of legal concepts and contract terminology.

• Understanding of basic and clinical science, as well as academic, biotech and pharma business.

• Solid understanding of the drug development process and enterprise-wide strategic initiatives.

• Strong and demonstrable history of working collegially and constructively with internal partners and external collaborators.

Required Skills: Business Development, Contract Agreements, Contract Negotiations, Contractual Drafting, Developing Proposals, Drug Discovery Research, Due Diligence, Licensing, Pharmaceutical Industry, Transaction Management Preferred Skills: Intellectual Property, Intellectual Property Licensing, Patent Licensing Current Employees apply HERE

Current Contingent Workers apply HERE

US and Puerto Rico Residents Only:

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