About the position
Aldevron is seeking a highly ambitious and experienced Director of Business Insights and Market Intelligence to join our dynamic Global Marketing and Strategy team. This role is pivotal to strategy creation and deployment across the organization and will drive market and competitive research and analysis. The Director will also own the end-to-end process of negotiating and securing out-licensing for key technology assets. The ideal candidate has an outstanding ability to bring rigor and data to bear on strategic decisions and has a successful track-record of deal-making and ability to create and maintain strong client relationships. This person must be excited to roll up their sleeves to own and drive every aspect of strategy creation - starting with building complex models through slide writing and artful storytelling. This role is part of the Strategy team and will be fully remote. You will report to the VP of Strategy responsible for end-to-end strategic planning across the organization.
Responsibilities
- Lead strategic planning, the development and deployment across Aldevron from start to finish- more specifically from insight generation to strategic storylines for executive level audiences
- Drive primary and secondary research on market, customers, and competitors. Own analysis to identify trends, customer dynamics, growth drivers, opportunities and competitive threats. Synthesize insights into recommendations and provide regular updates to leadership
- Create business cases for strategic initiatives, organic and inorganic growth opportunities, along with technology licensing and other potential opportunities. Own, contribute to, and evaluate complex models based on large data sets market analysis, forecasting, and the evaluation of opportunities
- Evaluate new markets qualitatively and quantitatively and formulate perspectives on opportunity for Aldevron, assess competitive positioning, and conduct gap analysis to identify areas of differentiation and focused growth
- Lead negotiations and manage the end-to-end process of securing business deals and licensing agreements, ensuring favorable terms and conditions for all transaction documents, including Confidential Data Agreements, Letters of Intent, Term Sheets, License Agreements, Collaboration Agreements and Intellectual Property Licenses in close partnership with intellectual property colleagues including internal and external legal counsel
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in biotechnology, genetics, cell and gene therapy, biomedicine, chemistry, biology, life sciences or related disciplines; top tier MBA, PhD or other graduate degree
- Proven experience and 9+ years leading strategic projects in health care industry as well as driving business development opportunities from start to finish, with at least 3+ years at a top tier consulting firm
- Significant analytical expertise and techniques with an outstanding ability to synthesize data into insights to inform strategic decisions; the ability to model and interpret complex data and market trends
- Ability to understand and evaluate complex technologies and processes related to cell and gene therapies (CGT)
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills to effectively communicate complex business and scientific issues with any audience and strong project management skills
Nice-to-haves
- Previous experience in cell and gene therapies, CDMOs, and/or bioprocessing
Benefits
- Comprehensive package of benefits including paid time off, medical/dental/vision insurance and 401(k) to eligible employees
- Bonus/incentive pay
