SVP, Strategic Partnerships

Scorpion Therapeutics; Princeton (NJ); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Scorpion Therapeutics seeks a senior leader to architect and manage strategic partnerships across platforms and portfolios. The role focuses on translating scientific strategy into commercially viable collaborations and leading multi-disciplinary negotiations with executive stakeholders.

You will design governance, IP, and economics frameworks to maximize long-term value while aligning with global growth plans and cross-border activities.

Qualifications

• Several years in biopharma or biotech.
• Advanced scientific or medical background.
• Extensive experience in drug discovery, translational science, and early clinical strategy.
• Demonstrated track record structuring and closing complex, innovation-driven partnerships.
• Experience negotiating at C-suite and Board level.
• Established global network across senior scientific and industry leadership.
• Portfolio-oriented thinking across multinational territories.
• Strong understanding of portfolio balance (risk, capital, resource exposure).
• Ability to anticipate emerging scientific and market inflection points.
• Experience designing governance models that accelerate decision-making.
• Capability to manage long-cycle deals and multi-year partnership build-outs.
• Proven ability to operate effectively in high-ambiguity, multi-stakeholder environments.
• Strong change advocacy based on external innovation exposure.

Responsibilities

• Develop and execute a forward-looking partnership thesis aligned with market evolution and platform priorities.
• Design complex, multi-asset and platform-based alliances including risk-share and co-development models.
• Structure IP, governance, economics, and milestone frameworks to optimize long-term portfolio value.
• Exit or restructure partnerships when strategic value no longer aligns.
• Conduct systematic market scanning to identify emerging science, technology inflection points, and capital flows.
• Anticipate future innovation clusters and shape participation in these ecosystems.
• Build regional and global partnership strategies aligned with long-term growth agenda.
• Lead negotiations with C-suite and Board-level stakeholders.
• Translate scientific and translational strategy into commercially viable deal structures.
• Balance risk, capital exposure, and resource allocation across a diversified partnership portfolio.
• Align scientific, legal, finance, and operational functions from concept to contract and into launch.
• Establish governance models for effective decision-making and execution.
• Drive internal alignment across geographies and therapeutic areas.
• Articulate strategic rationale and long-term value creation to executive committees and external partners.

Skills

Negotiation

Strategic thinking

Global partnerships

Governance design

Cross-functional leadership

C-suite collaboration

Portfolio management

Deal structuring

Market analysis

External innovation exposure

Education

Advanced scientific or medical background

Job description

Key Responsibilities

• Develop and execute a forward-looking partnership thesis aligned with market evolution and platform priorities
• Design complex, multi-asset and platform-based alliances including risk-share and co-development models
• Structure IP, governance, economics, and milestone frameworks to optimize long-term portfolio value
• Exit or restructure partnerships when strategic value no longer aligns
• Conduct systematic market scanning to identify emerging science, technology inflection points, and capital flows
• Anticipate future innovation clusters and shape participation in these ecosystems
• Build regional and global partnership strategies aligned with long-term growth agenda
• Lead negotiations with C-suite and Board-level stakeholders
• Translate scientific and translational strategy into commercially viable deal structures
• Balance risk, capital exposure, and resource allocation across a diversified partnership portfolio
• Align scientific, legal, finance, and operational functions from concept to contract and into launch
• Establish governance models for effective decision-making and execution
• Drive internal alignment across geographies and therapeutic areas
• Articulate strategic rationale and long-term value creation to executive committees and external partners

Qualifications

• Several years in biopharma or biotech
• Advanced scientific or medical background
• Extensive experience in drug discovery, translational science, and early clinical strategy
• Demonstrated track record structuring and closing complex, innovation-driven partnerships
• Experience negotiating at C-suite and Board level
• Established global network across senior scientific and industry leadership
• Portfolio-oriented thinking across multinational territories
• Strong understanding of portfolio balance (risk, capital, resource exposure)
• Ability to anticipate emerging scientific and market inflection points
• Experience designing governance models that accelerate decision-making
• Capability to manage long-cycle deals and multi-year partnership build-outs
• Proven ability to operate effectively in high-ambiguity, multi-stakeholder environments
• Strong change advocacy based on external innovation exposure