Customer Success Manager, Scale
People Culture Talent
Senior/Executive Director – Strategic/Venture Capital
Thermo Fisher Scientific
full-time
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Location: North Carolina • 🇺🇸 United States
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Senior
About the role
- Drive investment sourcing, strategic partnerships, and commercial value creation within Thermo Fisher Scientific’s Strategic Capital team
- Identify emerging companies, structure investment opportunities, and support strategic collaborations to improve Thermo Fisher’s long-term growth
- Structure deals, conduct due diligence, and negotiate term sheets
- Evaluate and implement high-value deals and strategic collaborations
- Nurture relationships and encourage partnerships across biotech, pharma, startups, and venture capital
- Generate value for multiple constituents through development of mutually beneficial partnerships
- Report into the Head of Strategic Capital (which reports into the Chief Operating Officer) and collaborate across the business
Requirements
- 10+ years validated experience in venture capital, corporate development, business development, or strategy within life sciences, diagnostics, biotech, or healthcare
- Strong understanding of biopharma R&D, diagnostics, life sciences tools, CDMOs, CROs, and emerging healthcare technologies
- Consistent track record in investment sourcing, strategic partnerships, and deal execution
- Experience structuring deals, conducting due diligence, and negotiating term sheets
- Deep industry network across biotech, pharma, startups, and venture capital
- Bachelor’s degree in life sciences, business, or a related field required; MBA, PhD, or advanced degree preferred
- Strong deal-making and financial analysis skills
- Ability to synthesize market insights into actionable investment strategies
- Excellent communication, negotiation, and executive presentation skills
- Entrepreneurial approach with the ability to drive projects in a fast-paced corporate environment
- Drives substantive, high-level conversations with senior leaders and executives
- Viewed as a leader and key decision maker with collaborators
- Engages and builds strong relationships with key collaborators and colleagues across the business
- Recognized as a critical advisor to business leadership
