Position Summary
Travere is seeking an Executive Director, CMC Diligence to lead the CMC assessments of clinical/commercial-stage assets associated with external business development opportunities. This individual will evaluate potential licensing, acquisition, partnership, and external innovation opportunities, identifying material technical risks and practical mitigation strategies across asset CMC development, manufacturing, supply chain, and commercial readiness. The role will closely collaborate with Business Development, Clinical, Commercial, Legal, Regulatory, and Quality leaders to support transaction decisions and post-deal integration planning.
The successful candidate will ensure CMC considerations are fully integrated into business development strategy and help Travere distinguish material risks from manageable issues to make informed investment and partnership decisions. The ideal candidate brings deep CMC expertise across small molecules, biologics, RNAi and gene therapy, sound business judgment, experience in confidential transaction environments, and the ability to translate complex technical findings into clear executive-level recommendations.
Key Responsibilities:
- Lead the CMC due diligence for licensing, acquisition, partnership, and external innovation opportunities by assessing the manufacturing, supply chain, and commercial readiness risks for clinical/commercial-stage assets.
- Evaluate drug substance/product manufacturing, product development, control strategies, analytical, validation, stability, technology transfer, and lifecycle management plans.
- Identify critical CMC risks related to process performance, formulation, raw materials, impurities, comparability, stability, technology transfer, and commercial readiness.
- Review CDMO / CMO capabilities, capacity, compliance history, performance, network redundancy, supply continuity, and readiness to support clinical or commercial supply.
- Identify key technical risks, gaps, assumptions, costs, timelines, and mitigation strategies to support transaction decisions.
- Partner with Business Development, Corporate Strategy, Quality, Regulatory, Finance, Legal, Program Management, and Technical Operations stakeholders.
- Prepare concise technical diligence summaries, risk registers, executive presentations, and post-transaction recommendations.
- Support technical input into term sheets, definitive agreements, quality agreements, supply agreements, and transition plans.
- Establish enterprise CMC diligence strategy, standards, and risk frameworks.
- Advise leadership on CMC considerations for strategic transactions.
- Additional duties assigned as needed.
Education/Experience Requirements:
- Ph.D. in chemistry, chemical engineering, pharmaceutical sciences, biological sciences, engineering, or related scientific discipline. Equivalent combination of education and applicable job experience may be considered.
- 10+ years of relevant experience in pharmaceutical or biotechnology industries with substantial CMC roles in manufacturing, process development, technical operations, or related functions required; preferred experience with progressing late-stage assets from clinical development through commercialization.
- 6 years of previous people management and leadership experience.
- Experience in similar strategic management position with significant experience interacting with executive leadership required.
- Professional experience in similar role within biotech/pharmaceutical industry, preferably supporting both biologics and small molecule development and commercialization.
- Strong understanding of GMP requirements, CMC regulatory expectations, process validation, analytical development, technology transfer, and product lifecycle management.
- Demonstrated experience leading or contributing to technical due diligence, asset evaluations, licensing, acquisitions, partnerships, or external manufacturing assessments.
- Ability to synthesize complex technical information into clear risks, recommendations, timelines, and mitigation plans.
- Excellent communication and influencing skills; rare disease, orphan drug development, global supply, regulatory submission, or post-deal integration experience preferred.
Additional Skills/Experience:
- The ideal candidate will embody Travere’s core values: Courage, Community Spirit, Patient Focus and Teamwork.
- Driven, intelligent, passionate about making a difference for patients with rare diseases.
- Skilled with building strong partnerships across internal functions and with external partners, consultants, CDMOs, and SMEs.
- Contribute to continuous improvement of CMC diligence tools, templates, risk frameworks, and evaluation standards.
- Communicate complex technical issues clearly to technical and non-technical audiences.
- Operate effectively in a fast-paced, confidential, and matrixed environment with shifting priorities and compressed timelines.
- Team player and strong interpersonal and organizational skills and excellent verbal and written communication skills.
- Excellent decision-making and collaboration skills with strong attention to detail.
- Six Sigma and statistical knowledge is a plus.
- Ability to travel 10-20% domestically and internationally.
- All positions have an essential job function to be able to perform face to face work with colleagues and/or onsite in San Diego.
- No role is expected to be 100% remote.
Total Rewards Offerings:
Travere provides comprehensive total rewards offerings that demonstrate our commitment as a diverse, equitable, people-centric, and pay-for-performance organization.
Benefits:Our benefits include premium health, financial, work-life and well-being offerings for eligible employees and dependents, wellness and employee support programs, life insurance, disability, retirement plans with employer match and generous paid time off.
Compensation : Our competitive compensation package includes a combination of both cash compensation (base pay and short-term incentive) and long-term incentive compensation (company stock), designed to recognize, retain, and reward employees.
