Business Development Associate

We save and change lives. At Children’s Cancer Institute (CCI) we believe that a life should be long. Cancer cuts life short for hundreds of children every year, before they’ve even had a chance to make their mark. We aim to not only improve their quality of life but eradicate the cause of their pain.

As the only independent medical research institute in Australia focused on childhood cancer, our purpose is to translate and discover (through world class research), new treatments that will cure cancer and reduce the side effects in children and adolescents.

Choose to be part of a team that will nurture your talent, so you too can contribute to this purpose. Together, we can and we will cure all children of cancer. It’s not if. It’s when.

The role of Business Development Associate will play a key role in supporting business development activities to facilitate commercialisation of research and technology transfer activities. Under the guidance of the team, the Associate supports all aspects of business development projects, which ultimately enable effective capture and translation of Institute intellectual property, and management of external alliances and partnerships with global industry partners and investors. This role is a 12 month maternity leave replacement role.

**As our Business Development Associate your purpose will be to**:

- With support from the BD team, evaluate business development opportunities, associated due diligence and development of intellectual property strategies
- With support from the BD team and in collaboration with the Legal team, develop and implement research translation and commercialisation plans and support agreement negotiations with commercial, academic and government partners.
- Create and update new and existing marketing and partnering materials about the Institute, research programs and partnership opportunities relevant to Industry and other relevant stakeholders
- Manage the Business Development team operations tasks such as data collection and reporting, IP management processes, stakeholder engagement records, and other relevant administrative duties
- Build strong professional networks for biomedical business development
- Establish and maintain high quality, effective working relationships with Institute staff and students and liaise with key internal stakeholders

**To succeed you will have**
- A PhD in a science-based discipline relevant to the pharmaceutical or biotechnology areas with some commercial or laboratory research experience
- Exposure to, or some experience in, business development in an academic or commercial environment
- A basic understanding of IP principles, technology transfer processes and pathways to commercialisation
- Excellent oral, written and interpersonal skills with aptitude for interacting with a variety of technical and non-technical stakeholders
- Ability to develop networks, and build and manage relationships with a broad range of academic, clinical and commercial stakeholders

**We will support you to be your best with benefits that include but are not limited to**:

- Access to our ‘FlexBEST’ program - true flexibility from day 1
- Focus on employee wellbeing, including up to 5 gifted wellbeing days off (paid) per year