New Business Lead - Medtech & Pharma

MANN+HUMMEL•Raleigh, NC

1d•Hybrid

About The Position

This hybrid position is based in Raleigh, North Carolina. No visa sponsorship is available. As a Business Leader / Entrepreneur in i2M, MANN+HUMMEL’s unit for future business, the New Business Lead co-owns the Medtech & Pharma search field with a Technical Lead / Inventor. The role focuses on finding, validating, and building businesses with the potential to exceed $100 million that the group may operate in five to ten years. The position owns the business side of opportunities from initial insight and customer validation through market entry and scale-up.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Business, Engineering, Life Sciences, or a comparable field.
5–10 years of directly relevant experience, ideally in Medtech, Pharma, or other regulated healthcare or life-science markets.
Hands-on experience in customer or new-business discovery and hypothesis-driven validation.
Experience with startups, venture building, or Corporate Venture Capital.
Strong business innovation competence, business acumen, and solid technical understanding.
Entrepreneurial spirit and self-driven approach.
Proven track record of building a new business, venture, or product line from discovery through launch and go-to-market.
Strong networking ability within Medtech & Pharma business arenas.
Creativity and ability to generate ideas and recognize business opportunities.
Excellent English verbal, written, and presentation business communication skills.
Ability to work in changing team structures while adapting to project, strategic, and corporate targets.
Professional business networking skills with all organizational levels, both domestic and international.
Ability to identify potential roadblocks and think quickly about possible solutions.
Confident, hands-on use of AI tools to accelerate market scanning, opportunity screening, customer-insight synthesis, and business-case development, with sound judgment to critically validate AI.
Conflict-resolution skills.
Ability to travel regularly, domestically and internationally.

Nice To Haves

Directly relevant experience in Medtech, Pharma, or other regulated healthcare or life-science markets.

Responsibilities

Own the business side of the Medtech & Pharma Innovation Search Field and combine it with the Technical Lead’s perspective into a joint strategy.
Screen the opportunity funnel by identifying and validating customer problems, assessing their severity and market size, and evaluating whether MANN+HUMMEL has a right to win.
Design and run fast, low-cost validation experiments, including experiments intended to disprove hypotheses.
Fully own and manage innovation projects from start through scale-up.
Manage business aspects of innovation projects, including foresight and exploration of opportunity spaces, idea generation, customer-problem identification and validation, market evaluation and sizing, business-model design, go-to-market strategy, business-plan development, and economic feasibility.
Connect new opportunities to existing MANN+HUMMEL assets and align strategically with Business Unit Presidents and Product Management.
Build a strong business and market ecosystem in Medtech & Pharma and support due diligence on Corporate Venture Capital deal flow.
Enable and drive decision-making to move projects forward quickly.
Coordinate cost analysis and detailed cost calculations of technical concepts as part of the overall business case.
Present and defend project status and Go / Stop / Scale recommendations to the i2M Innovation Board and executive leadership.