About this role
CSL's R&D organization is accelerating innovation to deliver greater impact for patients. With a project-led structure and a focus on collaboration, we’re building a future-ready team that thrives in dynamic biotech ecosystems. Joining CSL now means being part of an agile team committed to developing therapies that make a meaningful difference worldwide.
Could you be our next Global Landscaping & Strategy Lead? The job is in our Waltham MA Office. This is a hybrid position and is onsite three days a week.
Position Description Summary
Leads the global landscaping process across all TA areas and co-lead the Philly, NY, and DC region for CSL.
Main Responsibilities & Accountabilities
External Innovation Strategic Landscaping & Intelligence
Create and manage as single source of truth to drive the external innovation process
Synthesize therapeutic area landscapes to identify priority opportunity lists, key players, innovation hotspots, and emerging trends across selected therapeutic areas or modalities
Ensure consistent tracking/monitoring of asset inflection points and deliver best-in-industry competitive landscapes of assets in development
Assess new landscaping tools and AI platforms to efficiency identify and monitor external opportunities (including Clin Trials, IP, etc.)
External Innovation Conference Strategy
Develop and lead conference strategy for sourcing/early business development meetings
Collaborate with internal stakeholders to define strategic objectives, target meetings, and key narratives for external engagements
Oversee coordination of conference preparation materials (e.g., landscape summaries, target lists, briefing documents) and post-conference follow-up processes.
Governance Process & Opportunity Advancement
Architect and oversee governance framework for evaluating and advancing external innovation opportunities, from intake to triage, review, and recommendation
Regional Ecosystem Co-Lead (with Head of Search) for Philadelphia and New York
Embedded in ecosystem and responsible for representing CSL to source innovation against all TA strategies
Maintain local relationships and ensure CSL EI priorities are amplified at key universities, incubators, local organizations, etc.
Partner closely with Search TA Leads to conduct regional searches, plan for regional engagements/conferences, and share regional news/developments
Hold and represent CSL at local external innovation events
Qualifications & Experience Requirements
PhD, MD, or equivalent advanced scientific degree in life sciences required.
15+ years of experience in pharma/biotech strategy, external innovation, R&D strategy, or corporate/business development roles.
Demonstrated ability to synthesize scientific, strategic, and competitive insights into clear recommendations for senior leadership.
Experience designing or managing governance processes and driving high-level decision-making forums.
Experience evaluating pre-clinical assets and clinical-stage drug candidates across multiple modalities (small molecules, biologics, cell/gene therapies, etc.)
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About CSL Behring
CSL Behring is a global biotherapeutics leader driven by our promise to save lives. Focused on serving patients’ needs by using the latest technologies, we discover, develop and deliver innovative therapies for people living with conditions in the immunology, hematology, cardiovascular and metabolic, respiratory, and transplant therapeutic areas. We use three strategic scientific platforms of plasma fractionation, recombinant protein technology, and cell and gene therapy to support continued innovation and continually refine ways in which products can address unmet medical needs and help patients lead full lives.
CSL Behring operates one of the world’s largest plasma collection networks, CSL Plasma. Our parent company, CSL, headquartered in Melbourne, Australia, employs 32,000 people, and delivers its lifesaving therapies to people in more than 100 countries.
To learn more about CSL, CSL Behring, CSL Seqirus and CSL Vifor visit https://www.csl.com/ and CSL Plasma at https://www.cslplasma.com/.
Our Benefits
For more information on CSL benefits visit How CSL Supports Your Well-being | CSL.
You Belong at CSL
At CSL, Inclusion and Belonging is at the core of our mission and who we are. It fuels our innovation day in and day out. By celebrating our differences and creating a culture of curiosity and empathy, we are able to better understand and connect with our patients and donors, foster strong relationships with our stakeholders, and sustain a diverse workforce that will move our company and industry into the future.
To learn more about inclusion and belonging visit https://www.csl.com/careers/inclusion-and-belonging
Equal Opportunity Employer
CSL is an Equal Opportunity Employer. If you are an individual with a disability and need a reasonable accommodation for any part of the application process, please visit https://www.csl.com/accessibility-statement.
Other facts
About CSL
CSL Plasma is one of the world’s largest collectors of human plasma. We are committed to excellence and innovation in everything we do. Our work ensures that tens of thousands of people with rare and serious diseases are able to live normal, healthy lives. We are committed to our work because people’s lives depend on us. See our community guidelines: https://bit.ly/2IApjpz.
Supported by parent company CSL Behring, the global leader in plasma protein biotherapeutics, CSL Plasma has more than 280 plasma collection centers globally. CSL Plasma also has a state-of-the-art testing laboratory that features some of the most advanced technology, instrumentation and automation in the field; two logistics centers, one in Dallas and one in Indianapolis. Our corporate headquarters in Boca Raton, Florida.
Our U.S. plasma collection centers are committed to the highest standards of quality and safety. When you donate, you give a valuable gift to those who require plasma-derived therapies to live healthier lives.
The CSL Group has a combined heritage of outstanding contribution to medicine and human health with more than 100 years experience in the development and manufacture of vaccines and plasma protein biotherapies.
With major facilities in Australia, Germany, Switzerland and the US, CSL has over 30,000 employees working in more than 35 countries. See our community guidelines: https://bit.ly/3QZbZeZ
What you'll do
- Leads the global landscaping process across all therapeutic areas and co-leads the Philadelphia, New York, and Washington D.C. region for CSL. Oversees governance frameworks for evaluating and advancing external innovation opportunities.
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