About this role
About the Role This role leads the Deal Team in Novartis' BD&L function, driving the end-to-end deal-making process from due diligence to deal signature. The objective is to secure attractive partnerships by coordinating cross-functional inputs and building robust business cases. What You'll Do
- Provide outstanding negotiation skills through the entire deal making process to secure attractive deals.
- Leverage and strengthen a broad industry network to facilitate deal making.
- Drive contributions from various key functions to develop robust business cases and derive clear recommendations.
- Work closely with the Therapeutic Area Leadership team (Research, Development, Commercial, Strategy Heads) to understand key partnering priorities, drive alignment, and proactively communicate project updates.
- Lead Deal Team – Drive BD&L process from due diligence to deal signature, ensuring internal and external coordination, diligently progressing through each step of the partnering process, preparing high quality presentations for governance boards.
- Proactively monitor the external business environment and maintain a knowledge base of licensing transactions and other companies partnering activities. What We're Looking For
- Curious, engaged, self-starter, eager to learn and contribute while operating in a fast-paced, highly competitive environment.
- Outstanding presentation and communication skills: ability to synthesize and present clearly to senior executives complex scientific, clinical, commercial, and financial information to facilitate decision making; actively listens, seeks clarification when needed, responds well to questions, and speaks clearly.