SVP, Strategic Partnerships
Evotec
August 29, 2026
Remote friendly (Princeton, NJ)
United States
Other
Position Overview
- Shape and execute next generation strategic partnerships; design and secure long-term, innovation-driven alliances with global pharma, emerging biotechs, and ecosystem partners.
Key Responsibilities
- Develop and execute a forward-looking partnership thesis aligned with market evolution and platform priorities.
- Design complex, multi-asset and platform-based alliances, including risk-share and co-development models.
- Structure IP, governance, economics, and milestone frameworks to optimize long-term portfolio value.
- Exit or restructure partnerships when strategic value no longer aligns.
- Conduct systematic market scanning to identify emerging science/technology inflection points and capital flows.
- Anticipate innovation clusters and shape participation in these ecosystems.
- Build regional and global partnership strategies aligned with long-term growth agenda.
- Lead negotiations with C-suite and Board-level stakeholders.
- Translate scientific and translational strategy into commercially viable deal structures.
- Balance risk, capital exposure, and resource allocation across a diversified partnership portfolio.
- Align scientific, legal, finance, and operational functions from concept through contract and launch.
- Establish governance models enabling effective decision-making and execution.
- Drive internal alignment across geographies and therapeutic areas.
Qualifications
- Several years in biopharma or biotech; advanced scientific or medical background.
- Extensive experience in drug discovery, translational science, and early clinical strategy.
- Track record structuring and closing complex, innovation-driven partnerships.
- Experience negotiating at C-suite and Board level.
- Established global network; portfolio-oriented thinking across multinational territories.
- Strong understanding of portfolio balance (risk, capital, resource exposure).
- Ability to anticipate emerging scientific/market inflection points.
- Experience designing governance models; ability to manage long-cycle, multi-year deals.
- Proven success in high-ambiguity, multi-stakeholder environments.
- Strong change advocacy based on external innovation exposure.
- Shape and execute next generation strategic partnerships; design and secure long-term, innovation-driven alliances with global pharma, emerging biotechs, and ecosystem partners.
Key Responsibilities
- Develop and execute a forward-looking partnership thesis aligned with market evolution and platform priorities.
- Design complex, multi-asset and platform-based alliances, including risk-share and co-development models.
- Structure IP, governance, economics, and milestone frameworks to optimize long-term portfolio value.
- Exit or restructure partnerships when strategic value no longer aligns.
- Conduct systematic market scanning to identify emerging science/technology inflection points and capital flows.
- Anticipate innovation clusters and shape participation in these ecosystems.
- Build regional and global partnership strategies aligned with long-term growth agenda.
- Lead negotiations with C-suite and Board-level stakeholders.
- Translate scientific and translational strategy into commercially viable deal structures.
- Balance risk, capital exposure, and resource allocation across a diversified partnership portfolio.
- Align scientific, legal, finance, and operational functions from concept through contract and launch.
- Establish governance models enabling effective decision-making and execution.
- Drive internal alignment across geographies and therapeutic areas.
Qualifications
- Several years in biopharma or biotech; advanced scientific or medical background.
- Extensive experience in drug discovery, translational science, and early clinical strategy.
- Track record structuring and closing complex, innovation-driven partnerships.
- Experience negotiating at C-suite and Board level.
- Established global network; portfolio-oriented thinking across multinational territories.
- Strong understanding of portfolio balance (risk, capital, resource exposure).
- Ability to anticipate emerging scientific/market inflection points.
- Experience designing governance models; ability to manage long-cycle, multi-year deals.
- Proven success in high-ambiguity, multi-stakeholder environments.
- Strong change advocacy based on external innovation exposure.