Manager - Business Development & Inlicensing

Role Summary

This position focuses on alliance handling, opportunity scouting, and in-licensing work for the India business. The role acts as the primary contact for important partnerships and helps build the product portfolio through strategic sourcing and development.

Key Responsibilities

The role covers identification of new product opportunities across therapy areas that align with the India business strategy, including prospects from the pipeline, IPM, and product innovation concepts. It also involves leading the development of new product ideas across NCEs, NDDS, biosimilars, novel biologics, FDCs, first-to-launch products, and licensing-based products.

You will prepare business cases, term sheets, and agreements for new opportunities, and drive commercialization through coordination with cross-functional teams such as marketing, finance, R&D, packaging and artwork, PV, and legal. The position also includes discussions with licensing partners on artwork and document changes, as well as preparation and submission of documents to regulatory bodies.

In addition, the role requires project management for product pipeline execution across internal development and third-party sourcing, portfolio development for the India region formulation business, and close collaboration with the regulatory affairs team to create SOPs and frameworks for compliance on in-licensed products.

Experience and Education

The role requires 6 to 9 years of work experience and a postgraduate qualification in Business Administration.

Competencies

Expected strengths include innovation and creativity, process excellence, collaboration, customer focus, talent development, strategic agility, stakeholder management, and a strong result orientation.