Are you ready to shape external growth that turns bold science into treatments for people living with rare and devastating diseases? As Associate Director, Corporate Development, you will source, evaluate and help execute strategic opportunities that expand our pipeline and accelerate impact for patients.
You will partner with R&D, Commercial, Finance, Legal and other experts to build rigorous business cases and inventive deal structures that advance our goals. How would you connect scientific potential with financial discipline to guide investment decisions that matter?
From your first months, you will lead assessments across therapy areas, coordinate cross-functional diligence, and bring executive-ready recommendations to senior leadership—positioning you to influence portfolio strategy across the enterprise and deliver measurable value.
In This Role You Will
- Develop Opportunity Assessments: Create detailed evaluations of external growth opportunities across multiple therapy areas, including product portfolios, pipelines, corporate and asset valuations, deal structures, implementation plans, and execution risks
- Manage Projects and Transactions: Provide expert project and transaction management to design, evaluate and implement innovative deal structures
- Support Cross-Functional Evaluations: Collaborate on scientific and financial assessments of strategic opportunities
- Prepare Executive Business Cases: Draft presentations for Senior Executive Team (SET) and Board discussions
- Prioritize Portfolio Opportunities: Work with leadership to ensure appropriate prioritization and ranking of opportunities across the business
- Coordinate Live Transactions: Gather and synthesize actionable input from cross-functional teams including R&D, Finance, Commercial, Tax, Legal, IP and Operations during active deal execution
- Lead Due Diligence Activities: Work closely with cross-functional teams to identify key risks and develop risk mitigation proposals
- Support Deal Negotiations: Assist in deal negotiations and transaction closures
- Enable Integration Readiness: Collaborate with transaction integration and alliance management teams to ensure adequate arrangements are in place from closing
- Conduct Post-Closing Analytics: Assist in the preparation of purchase price allocations (PPA) after closing
- Drive Strategic Projects: Support ad hoc business development projects as business needs require
- Produce Financial Simulations: Create financial models in support of Group Finance planning and reporting activities