Our client is a global healthcare company who has been working to improve the health and well-being of people around the world. The company is now looking for their Head of the External Innovation team, responsible for defining, executing and leading the company's external innovation strategy to identify, evaluate, access, and integrate breakthrough science, technologies, and partnerships that accelerate the R&D pipeline and long-term
innovation agenda.
This leader serves as the bridge between internal scientific capabilities and the external ecosystem—including biotech startups, academia, venture capital, incubators, technology companies, and innovation consortia. The role combines scientific vision, strategic portfolio thinking, pannership leadership, competitive intelligence, and deal-shaping capabilities to ensure the company remains at the forefront of therapeutic and technological innovation.

Key responsibilities:
External Innovation Strategy: Define and continuously evolve the company's external innovation roadmap aligned with therapeutic area priorities, platform strategies, and longterm R&D objectives. Identify innovation gaps in internal capabilities and translate them into targeted external scouting mandates. Build strategic priorities across novel therapeutic modalities, platform technologies, AI/ML - enabled drug discovery, precision medicine and
advanced analytics. Develop annual external innovation plans with measurable impact KPIs.
Scientific & Technology Scouting: Lead proactive global scouting efforts to identify highvalue innovation opportunities from different sources including: biotech ecosystem, academic institutions, translational research centers, startup incubators, VC portfolios, scientific conferences, and innovation networks.
Opportunity Evaluation & Prioritization: Lead multidisciplinary evaluation of external opportunities. Assess: Scientific (biological rationale, translational robustness, target validation, mechanism differentiation, clinical feasibility), Strategic (fit with R&D priorities, adjacency to existing platforms, competitive positioning, timing advantage), Commercial (unmet medical need, market potential, payer relevance, differentiation, lifecycle
opportunity), Technical / Operational (scalability, manufacturability, integration complexity, regulatory pathway feasibility). Deliver: investment recommendations opportunity prioritization frameworks, executive briefing materials, innovation review packages.
Cross-Functional Leadership: Act as connective tissue across internal functions. Partner closely with: teams in Discovery Research, Translational Medicine, Clinical Development, Medical Affairs, Corporate Strategy, Competitive Intelligence, Business Development, Regulatory Affairs, IP, and Commercial Strategy. Responsibilities include align internal stakeholders, drive governance decisions, remove friction in collaboration execution, ensure scientific and strategic alignment.
Innovation Governance & Portfolio Management: Establish: governance mechanisms for external innovation including opportunity stage gates, decision frameworks, portfolio dashboards and strategic reviews. Track: active collaborations, value creation, pipeline contribution and capabilities build impact.
Internal Innovation Culture Building: Champion an externally oriented innovation mindset by driving internal innovation education, ecosystem engagement culture, scientific networking, and open innovation practices, creating organizational receptiveness to external science.
Competitive Intelligence and Technological Vigilance: Establish a competitive intelligence process to allow monitoring competitors in close interaction with key internal
stakeholders such as IP, CI, IR, strategy office. Monitor the external business environment to maintain a knowledge base of licensing transactions and other company activities in the
target areas. Develop a comprehensive understanding of the innovation landscape, marketplace, macro-trends, and collaborate with marketing to identify gaps and opportunities. Create and maintain a network of potential partners in the industry and in the venture capital and technology transfer sectors.

Minimum Qualifications:
To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skills, education, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable
individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Required:

• PhD in life science with post-doc, MD, PharmD, or equivalent advanced scientific degree. Preferred: MBA or strong strategic/business training.
• 12-18+ years in biopharma / biotech / healthcare innovation. Strong experience in several areas: drug discovery, translational medicine, R&D strategy, external Innovation, business development, search & evaluation, alliance management, corporate venture, precision medicine.
• Extensive knowledge of different drug modalities, new technologies and platforms in the context of drug discovery and development.
• Previous demonstrable experience in several of these therapeutic areas:
  Immunology, autoimmunity, pulmonology, critical care, and infectious diseases.
• Established network in the venture capital as well as innovation community of apharmaceutical/biopharma/biotechnology company.

Critical Competencies:

• Scientific Leadership: Ability to rapidly assess scientific credibility and breakthrough potential.
• Strategic Thinking: Strong portfolio perspective and white-space identification capability.
• Ecosystem Fluency: Deep understanding of biotech, academic, VC, startup, and pharma innovation landscapes.
• Partnership Leadership: Ability to build trust with high-level external stakeholders.
• Executive Communication: Ability to synthesize complexity into clear strategic recommendations.
• Deal Acumen: Comfort with collaboration structure, risk-sharing models, and licensing concepts.
• Influence Without Authority: exceptional cross-functional leadership. 
• Decision Quality: String judgement under uncertainty.

Leadership Profile:
The ideal candidate is scientifically credible, externally networked, commercially literate, strategically sharp, highly collaborative, politically sophisticated internally, comfortable with ambiguity, entrepreneurial but disciplined.

Our client is a pre-clinical Contract Research Organization (CRO) specializing in pig models dedicated to innovative solutions for biomedical, pharmaceutical, biotechnology, and medical device companies.

To support its business plan, they is building an impressive, hospital-like training center in Barcelona that can meet the training needs for any medical device supplier.

 Main responsibilities:

• Lead business development activities. Boost Sales is the major responsibility of this position.
• Manage the center (P&L responsibility).
• Build the new team.
• Coordinate with any other necessary resources from the CRO or third companies to provide clients with superb service.

 Required Experience & Skills:

• Experience organizing and leading complex events.
• Nursing or surgical-related studies are highly valued.
• Experience working in or managing surgical areas is highly valued.
• Excellent communication skills.
• Strong client relationship skills.
• Complete fluency in English, Catalan and Spanish.

 Key competences:

• Results and client orientation.
• Entrepreneurial mentality.
• Teamwork.
• Business vision.
• Analytical skills.
• Organization.
• Flexibility.
• Autonomy.
• Resilience

 We offer:

• Join a company with 12 years of consistent growth.
• Managing projects for top multinational companies.
• Great working environment.
• High growth potential.