Senior Manager, Corporate Development

Role Summary

Senior Manager, Corporate Development role focusing on evaluating partnering opportunities, transactions, and strategic initiatives within Mirum Pharmaceuticals.

Responsibilities

• Proactively source potential peri-clinical and clinical stage assets using databases, secondary research, conferences, networking, and industry trend monitoring.
• Identify, evaluate, and prioritize new business opportunities, including partnerships, licensing, collaborations, and M&A.
• Coordinate team diligence efforts including scientific and clinical reviews and commercial assessments.
• Support all aspects of transaction execution, including due diligence, financial modeling, valuation analysis, contract negotiations, and post-deal integration planning.
• Conduct interviews with key opinion leaders to gain insights into new disease areas and therapies in development.
• Prepare and deliver presentations, deal proposals, and updates to senior leadership and board-level stakeholders.
• Participate in strategic projects to support corporate development initiatives.
• Manage outside consultants as needed to support new opportunity assessments.
• Work with the R&D team to assess the technical feasibility and fit of potential clinical-stage assets with the existing product pipeline and company capabilities.

Qualifications

Education/Experience

• A PhD, MD, MD/PhD, or PharmD with strong scientific acumen and interest/experience in biotech/pharma.
• Management consulting background is desirable.

Knowledge, Skills And Abilities

• Genuine interest in healthcare and patient-focused work.
• Strong organizational skills with the ability to prioritize critical workstreams while balancing many projects.
• Strong project management skills to manage cross-functional teams evaluating partnering opportunities.
• Highly collaborative with ability to thrive in a fast-paced, dynamic, entrepreneurial environment.
• Strong communication skills to effectively convey scientific and clinical findings in written and oral formats.
• Ability to produce high-quality due diligence outputs to enable decision-making.
• Ability to present recommendations clearly and concisely and foster cross-functional consensus-building.
• Excellent analytical skills to synthesize complex scientific and business information.