Jazz Pharmaceuticals
Senior Manager, Search & Evaluation (Remote)
Jazz Pharmaceuticals, Carlsbad, California, United States, 92002
This person will join the R&D Search and Evaluation team which is part of Jazz Corporate Development. R&D Search and Evaluation provides insightful, timely, and decision enabling R&D assessment of potential new Jazz Pharmaceuticals investment opportunities such as Mergers and Acquisitions or in-licensing of investigational new drugs or marketed drug products. As a member of this team, this person will work closely with the R&D functions (e.g., Research, Early Development, Clinical Development, Clinical Operations, Project Management, Regulatory, Quality, Safety and Pharmacovigilance), as well as with New Product Planning (responsible for the commercial assessment), and the rest of the Corporate Development team to identify and assess potential business development and licensing (BD&L) opportunities in neuroscience.
This position has varying responsibilities relating to identification and technical assessment of potential new BD&L opportunities in both neuroscience and oncology:
Supports Jazz’s efforts to identify new BD&L opportunities by:
Maintaining Jazz databases of target opportunities and historical record of previous evaluations Conducting disease landscape evaluations leveraging internal databases and with external vendors Proactively monitoring industry changes/trends, conferences and the scientific literature Supporting other data gatherings and analytics Traveling to external conferences and meetings (10% - 20% of working hours)
Supports Jazz’s diligence and technical assessment of opportunities by:
Supporting the S&E deal lead in coordinating R&D diligence with the relevant functions (e.g., Research, Early Development, Clinical Development, Clinical Operations, Project Management, Regulatory, Quality, Safety and Pharmacovigilance) Supporting initial and timely technical evaluation of these opportunities from a drug development perspective (including: mechanistic rationale, preclinical evidence, clinical utility, regulatory feasibility) and business perspective (including: unmet need assessment, competitive landscape, strategic fit) Working closely with S&E deal lead as well as New Product Planning and the Corporate Development team to synthesize technical findings into overall recommendations Tracking and summarizing technical evaluation of opportunities and generating diligence summary documents Regularly interacting with and presenting to senior leadership regarding diligence findings Representing Jazz Pharmaceuticals R&D in interactions with KOLs, companies, academic institutions or other entities pursuant to above responsibilities Take responsibility for KOL contract management while contributing to outreach efforts and network expansion
Support Jazz’s R&D by:
Maintaining the quarterly RNCD pipeline prioritization scoresheet to facilitate strategic decision-making. Support regular neuroscience and oncology Advisory Boards.
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Maintaining Jazz databases of target opportunities and historical record of previous evaluations Conducting disease landscape evaluations leveraging internal databases and with external vendors Proactively monitoring industry changes/trends, conferences and the scientific literature Supporting other data gatherings and analytics Traveling to external conferences and meetings (10% - 20% of working hours)
Supports Jazz’s diligence and technical assessment of opportunities by:
Supporting the S&E deal lead in coordinating R&D diligence with the relevant functions (e.g., Research, Early Development, Clinical Development, Clinical Operations, Project Management, Regulatory, Quality, Safety and Pharmacovigilance) Supporting initial and timely technical evaluation of these opportunities from a drug development perspective (including: mechanistic rationale, preclinical evidence, clinical utility, regulatory feasibility) and business perspective (including: unmet need assessment, competitive landscape, strategic fit) Working closely with S&E deal lead as well as New Product Planning and the Corporate Development team to synthesize technical findings into overall recommendations Tracking and summarizing technical evaluation of opportunities and generating diligence summary documents Regularly interacting with and presenting to senior leadership regarding diligence findings Representing Jazz Pharmaceuticals R&D in interactions with KOLs, companies, academic institutions or other entities pursuant to above responsibilities Take responsibility for KOL contract management while contributing to outreach efforts and network expansion
Support Jazz’s R&D by:
Maintaining the quarterly RNCD pipeline prioritization scoresheet to facilitate strategic decision-making. Support regular neuroscience and oncology Advisory Boards.
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