Director, Business Development-Biotech

Location: Remote with occasional travel

Employment Type: Full-Time

Compensation: Base starting at $150,000

Kelly® Science & Clinical is seeking a Director of Business Development for a direct-hire opportunity supporting an innovative early-stage biotechnology client developing advanced therapeutic platforms. If you’re experienced in biotech licensing, corporate development, and building strategic partnerships—and thrive in a fast-paced, entrepreneurial environment—trust The Experts at Hiring Experts to guide your next career move.

Position Overview

In this high-impact, highly visible role, you will lead the business development and out-licensing strategy for a growing pipeline of therapeutic assets. As the organization’s first dedicated business development leader, you will build and manage the full deal lifecycle—from identifying prospective partners and developing compelling partner materials to leading outreach, diligence, negotiations, and post-signature relationship management.

You will collaborate closely with executive leadership, scientific stakeholders, finance, and legal counsel to translate early-stage scientific programs into credible, commercially compelling partnership opportunities.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the end-to-end out-licensing strategy for therapeutic pipeline assets, including identifying programs appropriate for internal advancement versus external partnership.
  

• Identify, prioritize, and cultivate relationships with prospective pharmaceutical and biotechnology partners.
  

• Develop the commercial rationale for each program through market assessment, competitive intelligence, positioning, and evaluation of strategic in-licensing or technology-acquisition opportunities.
  

• Create and maintain high-quality partnering materials, including non-confidential summaries, presentation decks, data-room content, and financial analyses.
  

• Lead partner outreach, manage diligence processes, and structure and negotiate licensing, collaboration, and option agreements in partnership with internal and outside counsel.
  

• Build, maintain, and report on a qualified pipeline of prospective partners and active business development opportunities.
  

• Manage relationships with signed partners and serve as a key external commercial contact for inbound partnership and investor inquiries.
  

• Represent the organization at industry conferences, partnering events, and meetings.
  

• Monitor the competitive, therapeutic, and licensing landscape to inform business development strategy, deal positioning, and terms.
  

• Provide leadership with regular updates on deal activity, market intelligence, partner discussions, and strategic opportunities for board and fundraising materials.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in life sciences or a related discipline.
  

• Eight or more years of business development, corporate development, licensing, or strategic partnership experience within biotechnology or pharmaceutical organizations.
  

• Demonstrated experience sourcing, negotiating, and helping close at least one licensing, collaboration, or strategic partnership agreement.
  

• Working knowledge of valuation and financial modeling approaches for early-stage biotechnology assets, including risk-adjusted net present value and comparable transaction analyses.
  

• Ability to independently manage multiple priorities in a lean, virtual, and fast-moving organization.
  

• Experience using AI-enabled tools to support market research, competitive intelligence, literature and patent searches, CRM/outreach management, deal tracking, and business-development materials.
  

• Strong written, verbal, presentation, and relationship-management skills, with the ability to communicate complex science in a clear, credible, partner-facing narrative.
  

• Willingness to travel periodically for partner meetings and industry conferences.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience supporting licensing or partnering activities involving advanced therapeutic platforms, biologics, cell and gene therapy, extracellular vesicles, or similar modalities.
  

• Experience with sell-side, preclinical, or pre-IND business development transactions.
  

• Experience assessing and prioritizing multiple therapeutic indications for a single technology platform.
  

• Established network of pharmaceutical and biotechnology business development and licensing contacts.
  

• Experience collaborating with patent counsel on intellectual property strategy and deal structuring.
  

• Advanced degree, such as an MBA, PhD, or JD.

Interested candidates should apply directly to this job posting. Please do not send an email or LinkedIn InMail.

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