Senior Director, External Innovation, Research Alliances

🔥 28 minutes ago

🇪🇸 Spain – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

👔 Director

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10,000+ employees

Founded 1952

🏥 Healthcare

🍽️ Food & Beverage

🏭 Manufacturing

Healthcare • Food & Beverage • Manufacturing

Zoetis is the world's leading animal health company, committed to nurturing the world and humankind by advancing care for animals. With over 70 years of innovation, Zoetis develops a broad portfolio and pipeline of medicines, vaccines, diagnostics, and technologies that span a continuum of care to predict, prevent, detect, and treat animal illnesses. Operating in more than 100 countries, the company supports livestock farmers, veterinarians, and pet owners around the globe. Zoetis is driven by science and their shared passion for the human-animal bond, aiming to create a more sustainable and healthier world for all.

📋 Description

• Identify, assess, triage, negotiate, transact, and manage external relationships providing substrates, technologies, disease models, and/or research information or expertise for VMRD portfolio projects • Communicate and engage effectively with VMRD research project teams, commercial development partners, and business development • Coordinate research alliances and collaborations • Communicate anticipated investments, commitments, and deliverables from alliances • Update alliance information in the centralized VMRD alliance database • Work with colleagues to expand reach into institutes, universities, biotech companies, and other companies • Develop and manage relationships with key external collaborators • Support global portfolio needs • Report to the Vice President, External Innovation, Veterinary Medicine Research and Development (VMRD) • Travel approximately 10–15%

🎯 Requirements

• Doctor of Veterinary Medicine (or equivalent) or PhD (or equivalent) in a biological field, or equivalent on-the-job experience • Experience in negotiations • At least 10 years of transactional experience in academia or industry developing, contracting, and managing research alliances and/or technology transfer in the life sciences • Experience developing and managing business/research alliance relationships with industry and academia • Experience drafting and negotiating technology-based agreements • Demonstrated working knowledge of intellectual property concerns in research/business alliances • Broad scientific knowledge and understanding of animal health research, development, and products • Strong interpersonal skills to forge business relationships with outside organizations and internal partners • Understanding of business valuation, project progression, and research and development costs and timelines • Strong attention to detail and a “finisher” mentality • Excellent written and verbal communication skills • Critical thinking skills • Outstanding negotiation skills, particularly with external partners • Experience overseeing or managing inter-institutional relationships • Experience and expertise in the animal health industry • Permanent residence in Spain

🏖️ Benefits

• Approximately 10–15% travel associated with the role • Full-time regular employment • Colleague employment status

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