He/she serves as Novarti C&BD’sprimary external representative in China, maintaining deep industry and competitive insight while cultivating strong relationships across biotechs, investors, and the broader innovation ecosystem. The person is deeply entrenched in the community with an emphasis to expand even further and acts as the Site Head for C&BD in China.
The Head C&BD China leads the creation and execution of a structured, proactive approach to identifying and evaluating significant business and licensing opportunities in China, spanning from early-stage research collaborations to late stage commercial deals to assets at all development stages with global or ex China rights.
The position brings sophisticated deal making expertise to unlock novel opportunities, and ensures execution on clear, strategically aligned search priorities that support research, development, and commercial needs as defined by the Global Head of S&E and the respective Therapeutic Area S&E Heads (as well as platform/AI).
It drives proactive pipeline gap identification, fosters creative and agile sourcing mindsets, and ensures robust triage and documentation of inbound prospects. As part of the C&BD Leadership Team, the role provides scientific, strategic, and commercial perspectives, acts as the main C&BD liaison to China leadership, and strengthens integration with the global C&BD organization with an emphasis on S&E in particular.
It champions Novartis’ positioning as a preferred partner in China by instilling urgency, agility, and collaboration, increasing engagement with the biotech community, ensuring strong conference representation, enabling deal type creativity, and developing high-performing talent.
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