Senior Director, Biotech Partnerships & Licensing

Flagship Pioneering; Cambridge (MA); On-site; USD 217,000 - 275,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare coverage

Annual incentive program

Retirement benefits

Job summary

Quotient Therapeutics seeks an entrepreneurial Senior Director of Business Development to lead partnerships, asset in-licensing, and market intelligence to shape the company’s portfolio and strategy.

The role reports to the CFO and requires experience leading biopharma partnerships in an early-stage, fast-paced environment with cross-functional engagement across R&D, clinical, regulatory, and executive teams.

Qualifications

• Advanced degree in life sciences, medicine, business, or 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 related function
• Demonstrated experience executing or contributing to biopharma partnership and licensing transactions
• Strong understanding of drug development and the biotech/pharma industry
• Experience evaluating external therapeutic assets and conducting cross-functional diligence
• Ability to perform market, competitive, and commercial analyses for drug development programs
• Strong financial and analytical capabilities, including asset valuation, deal economics, forecasting, and scenario analysis
• Excellent negotiation, communication, and presentation skills
• Strong scientific and strategic judgment with the ability to assess complex information and make recommendations
• Ability to build trusted relationships with senior executives and external partners
• Entrepreneurial mindset and willingness to work hands-on in an early-stage environment

Responsibilities

• Develop and execute a comprehensive business development strategy aligned with scientific, clinical, and corporate objectives
• Identify, evaluate, and cultivate relationships with potential pharmaceutical, biotech, academic, and other strategic partners
• Lead commercial partnership opportunities from identification through valuation, negotiation, deal structuring, and execution
• Develop materials including opportunity assessments, strategic rationales, valuation analyses, and executive presentations
• Build and maintain a strong network across biotech and pharma industries
• Identify opportunities for co-development, licensing, collaborations, and other strategic transactions
• Support corporate strategy and financing activities with external market intelligence
• Lead evaluation of external assets and technologies to expand internal pipeline
• Establish 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 on licensing economics, development responsibilities, milestones, royalties, territories, governance
• Maintain forward-looking view of emerging technologies and platforms relevant to strategy

Skills

Entrepreneurial mindset

Strategic business development

Transaction leadership

Cross-functional collaboration

Financial & analytical skills

Negotiation & deal structuring

Market intelligence

External partnerships evaluation

Education

Advanced degree in life sciences/medicine/business

MBA or equivalent business training

Job description

Quotient Therapeutics seeks an entrepreneurial Senior Director of Business Development to lead partnerships, asset in-licensing, and market intelligence to shape the company’s portfolio and strategy.

The role reports to the CFO and requires experience leading biopharma partnerships in an early-stage, fast-paced environment with cross-functional engagement across R&D, clinical, regulatory, and executive teams.