Job Description

Would you like to join an international team working to improve the future of healthcare? Do you want to enhance the lives of millions of people? Grifols is a global healthcare company that since 1909 has been working to improve the health and well-being of people around the world. We are leaders in plasma-derived medicines and transfusion medicine and develop, produce and market innovative medicines, solutions and services in more than 110 countries and regions.

We believe that diversity adds value to our business, our teams, and our culture. We are committed to equal employment opportunity fostering an inclusive environment where diversity makes us be outstanding.

Help us lead one of the world’s largest pharmaceutical companies. We are a world leader in plasma-derived medicines with a presence in more than 100 countries, and a growing global team of over 20.000 people. That’s why we need an Innovation Senior Manager like you.

GIANT (Grifols Innovation and New Technologies) is Grifols’ external innovation team, dedicated to identifying, evaluating, and advancing high-value external opportunities that strengthen the company’s R&D pipeline and support long-term growth. As part of the Scientific Innovation Office (SIO), GIANT brings together senior scientific, medical, and operational expertise to source and assess external R&D opportunities, monitor emerging technologies and competitive trends, and actively manage selected collaborations, partnerships, and investments. Organized around Grifols’ priority therapeutic areas, GIANT helps diversify the pipeline beyond plasma while ensuring strong strategic alignment with the company’s scientific and business priorities.The Innovation Senior Manager coordinates all GIANT team activities, ensuring effective execution across key domains:

·Search and evaluation of external innovation opportunities, ensuring high-quality and timely evaluations and efficient reporting to SIO and Grifols leadership.

·Technological vigilance and competitive intelligence activities in the areas of competency, including processes across business units and teams, ensuring that information is reliable, comparable, and fit for reporting purposes.

·Lead budget preparation and monitoring

·Engage internal stakeholders to promote innovation and cross-functional alignment, thereby supporting excellence at Grifols level as well as external stakeholders to foster strategic collaborations, enhance innovation within the ecosystem, and ensure efficient operational support, ultimately driving Grifols' growth and influence at both the Catalan and Spanish levels

·Play a critical role to ensure strategic alignment, operational efficiency, cross-functional collaboration, and effective documentation within GIANT, SIO, and Grifols

What are your responsibilities:

• GIANT Deal flow management:
  • End-to-end management of external innovation opportunities, ensuring systematic evaluation, prioritization, and progression in line with strategic objectives.
  • Responsible for defining and maintaining governance, processes, and reporting standards for deal flow

• Support on scouting and evaluation of opportunities

• • Support in the identification and assessment of external opportunities attending partnering conferences and active scouting if needed.
  • Maintain CRM for interactions with alternative deal flow sourcing bodies (VCs, TTOs, accelerators, placement agents, etc.)
  • Accountable for ensuring consistency, quality, and decision readiness across evaluations.

• Coordinate Technology vigilance activities

• • Coordinate the technology vigilance and competitive intelligences activities across teams and ensuring reliable, comparable insights.
  • Responsible for consolidating and delivering strategic intelligence and KRIs reporting to relevant internal stakeholders as per defined governance and workflows.

• GIANT budget management:

• • Planning, monitoring, and controlling the GIANT yearly budget
  • Accountable for financial reporting, forecasting, and alignment with KPIs

• Stakeholders management (Internal and External)

• • Drive effective collaboration across internal stakeholders and ensuring alignment of activities and outputs (Strategy Office, Corporate communications, Corporate affairs, Market intelligence, Cost Controlling, Procurement, Investors relations etc.)
  • Build and manage strategic external relationships within the innovation ecosystem (ASEBIO, Biocat, CATALONIA health, ACCIO, etc) to facilitate Grifols data for reporting, Grifols participation in external initiaves, membership contact person, sponsorships, etc.

Who you are

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
• 10+ years in biopharma / biotech / healthcare innovation. Experience in several of: Drug Discovery, Translational Medicine, R&D strategy, External Innovation, Business Development, Search & Evaluation, Alliance Management, Corporate Venture, Venture Capital, Project Management,
• 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, infectious diseases.
• Established network in the Pharma, biotech and venture capital innovation community Critical Competencies
  • Operational and execution excellence ability to identify ways of continuous improvement
  • 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 structures, risk-sharing models, and licensing concepts.
  • Influence Without Authority Exceptional cross-functional leadership.
  • Decision Quality Strong judgment under uncertainty.

Leadership Profile

Ideal candidate is scientifically credible, externally networked, commercially literate, strategically sharp, highly collaborative, politically sophisticated internally, comfortable with ambiguity, entrepreneurial but disciplined

What we offer

It is a brilliant opportunity for you, Grifols is fully aware that its employees are one of its major assets. We are committed to maintaining an atmosphere that encourages all our employees to develop their professional careers in an excellent working environment.

Information about Grifols is available at www.grifols.com. If you are interested in joining our company and you have what it takes for such an exciting position, then don’t hesitate to apply!

We look forward to receiving your application!

We believe in diverse talent and want to remove any barriers that may hinder your participation. If you require any adjustments in our selection process, please do not hesitate to inform us when applying. We are here to help.

Grifols is an equal opportunity employer.

Flexibility for U Program: Hybrid Model

Flexible schedule: Monday-Thursday 7-10 to 16-19h and Friday 8-15h (with the same flexible start time).

Benefits package

Contract of Employment: Permanent position

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