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City of Hope

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10,000+ employees

🧬 Biotechnology

🔬 Science

🤝 Non-profit

💰 $5.4M Grant - City of Hope on 2024-05

Biotechnology • Science • Non-profit

City of Hope is a nonprofit, NCI-designated comprehensive cancer center and research hospital near Los Angeles that provides patient care, conducts translational biomedical research, and offers education and clinical trials across a national network. It focuses on cancer, diabetes, and other life‑threatening diseases, combining clinical services, laboratory science, training and community outreach to develop new treatments and support patients and families.

📋 Description

• Lead the annual and multi-year budgeting process across the Commercial Organization, ensuring alignment between financial plans and strategic priorities. • Develop sophisticated financial models to forecast revenue from commercialization activities, including licensing, royalties, milestones, equity participation, sponsored research, and strategic partnerships. • Build short-, medium-, and long-term growth forecasts and scenario models to support executive decision-making and institutional planning. • Partner with Business Development, Licensing, Intellectual Property, and Hope Catalyst teams to assess commercialization pipeline value and growth opportunities. • Create frameworks to measure and track commercialization value creation, including revenue generation, equity value, strategic partnerships, and future milestone potential. • Provide financial analysis and recommendations to guide resource allocation, investment prioritization, staffing decisions, and commercialization initiatives. • Develop business cases for emerging growth opportunities, including venture creation, diagnostics, data partnerships, GMP-related commercialization, and innovation platform services. • Support evaluation of partnership, licensing, and business development transactions by modeling financial impact and long-term value creation. • Design and deliver executive dashboards and performance reporting that provide visibility into budgets, growth targets, pipeline value, and return on investment. • Drive operational excellence through standardized forecasting, budgeting, reporting, and financial governance processes that support a culture of accountability and data-driven decision-making.

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Business Administration, Economics, Healthcare Administration, Life Sciences, or a related field required. • Advanced degree (MBA, MHA, MS Finance, or equivalent) preferred. • Minimum 15 years of experience in financial planning and analysis, strategic finance, budgeting, forecasting, commercialization finance, healthcare finance, life sciences finance, or business operations. • Demonstrated success leading budgeting, forecasting, and financial planning processes across multiple departments or complex organizations. • Advanced financial modeling expertise, including revenue forecasting, scenario planning, growth modeling, pipeline valuation, and business case development. • Experience partnering with executive leaders on strategic planning, investment decisions, resource allocation, and performance management. • Strong expertise in financial reporting, dashboard development, KPI creation, and executive-level analytics. • Experience translating complex business and commercialization opportunities into actionable financial insights and recommendations. • Preferred experience within healthcare, academic medicine, biotechnology, pharmaceuticals, life sciences, technology transfer, venture creation, or commercialization environments. • Familiarity with commercialization revenue models, including licensing, royalties, milestones, equity participation, start-up creation, sponsored research, and strategic partnerships. • Exceptional communication, relationship-building, project management, and stakeholder management skills. • CPA, CFA, or comparable financial credential preferred but not required.

🏖️ Benefits

• Health insurance • Retirement plans • Paid time off • Flexible work arrangements • Professional development