WHO YOU ARE

You are a team player with a demonstrated ability to deliver results in a timely manner and at the highest levels of excellence in a fast-paced, collaborative environment . Y o u m ust have demonstrated experience in negotiation of multiple deal types and a record of driving BD opportunities to closing . You m ust maintain a strong network with the investment banking and biotech community to identify o pportunities to enhance and innovate Biogen’s pipeline

REQUIRED SKILLS

• Advanced/graduate degree required , advanced scientific degree with MBA or PhD preferred
• 15+ years’ experience in biopharma, consulting, banking, or related fields.
• 5+ years’ experience in Business Development or Corporate M&A
• Substantial deal sheet required , including independently leading and negotiating 5-10 or m ore closed transactions
• Broad and comprehensive expertise in deal negotiation, applicable policies, and regulations
• Broad and comprehensive expertise in multiple deal types
• Broad and comprehensive expertise in financial evaluations and analytics and comprehensive knowledge of key disciplines (Legal, Finance , Commercial).
• Comprehensive knowledge of drug development
• Broad and comprehensive experience on cross functional project leadership
• Ability to operate with high level of independence while providing guidance to others
• Experience leading highly visible multidisciplinary deal teams and projects. Ability to influence cross-functional stakeholders to bring sound evaluations and recommendations forward to senior management
• Experience presenting proposals of high risk and complexity to senior management and negotiating with senior management (EC and EC-1) and other senior stakeholders to influence decisions
• Travel mostly domestic about once or twice per year
  Job Level: Management

Corporate Development leads the establishment of Biogen’s corporate strategy and is responsible for the identification, assessment and negotiation of external opportunities to augment Biogen’s pipeline, as well as integration of acquired companies and management of relationships with Biogen’s partners.
Reporting to the Head of Business Development/M&A, the Business Development Transactions Sr Dir ector w ill be responsible for the business evaluation and execution of impactful business development opportunities across therapeutic areas , asset stages, and deal types including R&D or commercial partnerships, licenses, collaborations , and/or acquisitions that fit within the overall corporate strategy, business plan and product portfolio. Additionally, this individual will be responsible for executing New Venture transactions that could include strategic equity investments, build-to-buy and option deals, and NewCo formation .

What You’ll Do

• Evaluate, structure, negotiate, and close large strategic M&A, BD&L, and New Ventures transactions that align with the company’s global strategic growth initiatives.
• Lead due diligence from NBO to signing, to advance deals of high complexity . Provide thought leadership and work collaboratively and productively with the Corporate Development organization, with an emphasis on building strong deal teams.
• Negotiate on behalf of Biogen highly complex deals under applicable policies and regulations
• Lead transaction contracting process and serve as business partner to key corporate functions including legal, finance, tax and accounting
• Independently l ead execution of complex opportunities with focus on business actionability to advance (or stop) opportunities. Integrate complex data sets and provide clear recommendations.
• Drive effective handover from the external innovation deal lead at NBO stage .
• Collaborate with cross-functional colleagues to proactively identify external growth opportunities for partnering/acquisition s in multiple therapeutic areas of high priority .
• Contribute to opportunity prioritization within therapeutic area s by providing transactional actionability assessments .
• Develops highly complex assessments, scenarios, and recommendations for external opportunities