Description
Quotient Therapeutics is seeking an entrepreneurial, highly strategic Senior Director of Business Development to lead the company's partnering, asset in-licensing, and market intelligence activities.
The ideal candidate combines strong scientific and commercial judgment with demonstrated transaction leadership and the ability to operate effectively in an early-stage, fast-paced, resource-constrained environment.
Responsibilities:
- Develop and execute a comprehensive business development strategy aligned with the company's scientific, clinical, and corporate objectives
- Identify, evaluate, and cultivate relationships with potential pharmaceutical, biotechnology, academic, and other strategic partners
- Lead commercial partnership opportunities from initial identification and diligence through valuation, negotiation, deal structuring, and execution
- Develop compelling partnership materials, including opportunity assessments, strategic rationales, valuation analyses, and executive presentations
- Build and maintain a strong network across the biotechnology and pharmaceutical industries
- Identify opportunities for co-development, licensing, collaborations, research partnerships, and other strategic transactions
- Support corporate strategy and financing activities by providing external market and competitive intelligence
- Lead identification and evaluation of external assets and technologies that could complement or expand the company's internal pipeline
- Establish systematic processes for sourcing and prioritizing in-licensing opportunities
- Coordinate cross-functional diligence with scientific, clinical, regulatory, IP, legal, and finance teams
- Develop business cases and recommendations for investment in external programs
- Lead negotiations around licensing economics, development responsibilities, milestones, royalties, territories, governance, and other key deal terms
- Maintain a forward-looking view of emerging technologies, mechanisms, therapeutic approaches, and platform opportunities relevant to the company's strategy
Qualifications:
- Advanced degree in life sciences, medicine, business, or a related field; MBA or equivalent business training is a plus
- 10+ years of relevant experience in biotechnology or pharmaceutical business development, corporate strategy, licensing, or a related function
- Demonstrated experience executing or materially contributing to biopharma partnership and licensing transactions
- Strong understanding of drug development and the biotechnology/pharmaceutical industry
- Experience evaluating external therapeutic assets and conducting cross-functional diligence
- Demonstrated ability to perform or oversee market, competitive, and commercial analyses for drug development programs
- Strong financial and analytical capabilities, including familiarity with asset valuation, deal economics, forecasting, and scenario analysis
- Excellent negotiation, communication, and presentation skills
- Strong scientific and strategic judgment, with the ability to rapidly assess complex information and make clear recommendations
- Ability to build trusted relationships with senior executives and external partners across the biopharma ecosystem
- Entrepreneurial mindset and willingness to work hands-on in an early-stage environment
Values and Behaviors:
- Encourage respectful disagreement and cultivate open-minded, ego-free interactions to continuously push each other towards excellence
- Seek out diverse perspectives; practice active listening and genuine curiosity to ensure all contributions are valued, regardless of source
- Recognize the impact of your behavior, language and attitudes, and strive for balanced, meaningful exchanges that enhance mutual growth and understanding in all interactions
- Use a company-first mindset to guide decision-making; prioritize team over individual success
- Take calculated risks and challenge convention in the quest for exceptional outcomes
The salary range for this role is $217,000 - $275,000.