Senior Director, R&D Business Development

** Working

Location:

Massachusetts, Westborough;
Nationwide*
* ** Workplace Flexibility:
Remote*
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** Job Description*
* This role is responsible for designing, fostering, and maintaining an effective R&D approach to global BD projects.  This includes building necessary processes and tools as well as building a team with the necessary bandwidth and capabilities to meet the inorganic strategy goals. They are accountable for a high-quality due diligence report and integration strategy/plan, and to effectively enable integration execution.

** Job Duties*
* + R&D BD Organizational Development

+ Accountable for developing and maintaining the R&D BD readiness plan aligned to Olympus' inorganic strategy agreed to by BD and R&D

+ Assess current capabilities, systems, policies, processes, organizational structure, and resources for conducting R&D due diligence, integration strategy/planning activities, and integration execution against best practices.

+ Drive initial implementation of the agreed R&D M&A readiness plan.  Support further development of the M&A Playbook for R&D. Maintain the playbook and update as the situation changes.

+ Create, maintain, and evolve R&D specific tools and processes to support effective, programmatic approaches to M&A and divestment activities

+ Create, train, and maintain R&D team members in all BUs to support BD related deliverables.

+ BD Transaction Activities

+ Represent R&D on BD project teams (BD project types include acquisitions, divestitures, partnerships, strategic distributions, ventures, and licensing).

+ Accountable for ensuring R&D due diligence activities are completed culminating in a high-quality due diligence report. This includes assessment of findings and risks, and identification of mitigation plans.

+ Build R&D due diligence and integration teams.

+ Accountable for ensuring an effective integration strategy and plan are developed and for effectively enabling integration execution before handing control to the identified R&D integration leader.

+ Build global stakeholder alignment in support of the R&D integration strategy and plan through effective communication/collaboration with key executive and regional leadership.

+ Coordinate with the BD Deal Leader, Integration Manager, and R&D on project resource requirements and assignments based on deal cadence, scale, due diligence findings, integration strategy/plans, and other R&D relevant factors.

+ Ensure effective leadership, coordination, development and oversight of project management disciplines, processes, and interdependent functions across R&D teams, for all BD projects.

+ Provide R&D leadership with advice and guidance regarding BD related activities.  Ensure consistent quality across deals.

+ Provide strategic advice to deal leaders on potential BD opportunities from a R&D organizational or technology perspective.

+ Other responsibilities / duties as assigned.

** Job Qualifications*
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* Required:

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* + Bachelor's degree in a technical field; MBA or other advanced degree preferred

+ Minimum experience of fifteen years in R&D and R&D leadership roles.

+ Technology generalist.

+ Strong ability to design and lead programs/projects with a strong process orientation.

+ Excellent interpersonal skills and experience working with different personalities and cultures.

+ High business acumen; ability to learn quickly and adapt to new circumstances; comfort and ability to effectively order the unknown; intellectual agility.

+ Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written; ability to quickly distill complex information into actions/recommendations.

+ Excellent ability to read and influence senior decision makers bridging organizational complexities.

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