Director Strategic Partnerships

Work Your Magic with us! Start your next chapter and join MilliporeSigma. Ready to explore, break barriers, and discover more? We know you've got big plans - so do we! Our colleagues across the globe love innovating with science and technology to enrich people's lives with our solutions in Healthcare, Life Science, and Electronics. Together, we dream big and are passionate about caring for our rich mix of people, customers, patients, and planet. That's why we are always looking for curious minds that see themselves imagining the unimaginable with us. This role does not offer sponsorship for work authorization. External applicants must be eligible to work in the US. Your Role: MilliporeSigma Corporation is searching for Director Strategic Partnerships, reporting directly into the VP of Life Science Business Development within the Life Science sector covering discovery, pre-clinical, and bioprocessing domains. You will identify key partnerships where MilliporeSigma and the partner can innovate, build, and grow together. This role will external technology developments with MilliporeSigma priorities turning strategic insight into joint solutions and long-term competitive advantage. Primary stakeholders include R&D, product management, patents, regulatory, and controlling. Success will be demonstrated by measurable business impact, accelerated innovation, effective cross-company execution, and sustainable growth resulting from the partnership. Key Responsibilities: * Owning the strategic relationship serving as the primary point of contact across the partnership. * Building trusted relationships with executives, business leaders, product teams, and technical stakeholders. * Defining and executing a multiyear partnership strategy aligned with the priorities of both companies. * Identifying high-value opportunities and connecting the partner's technologies and capabilities with the appropriate MilliporeSigma businesses. * Advancing co-innovation and technology-integration initiatives across life science consumables, instruments, equipment, AI, robotics, digital twins, cloud, data, and enterprise platforms. * Developing joint solutions, ecosystem initiatives, and go-to-market programs that create measurable customer and business value. * Establishing effective partnership governance, including clear objectives, ownership, milestones, and measures of success. * Delivering concise, executive-ready updates on partnership progress, risks, decisions, and business outcomes. * Serving as a strategic bridge between MilliporeSigma, the partner, and the broader life science technology ecosystem. Deal sheet required as attachment to application. * Demonstrated success building and scaling complex partnerships with major global life science tools companies. * Experience operating effectively within large, global, matrixed organizations. * Proven ability to lead cross-functional initiatives and deliver results through influence. * Experience engaging senior executives and managing high-value external relationships. * Strong understanding of technology industry dynamics, partner ecosystems, and emerging business models. * Ability to translate complex technologies and market developments into strategic priorities and commercial opportunities. * Strong executive communication, negotiation, stakeholder-management, and decision-making skills. * To view the full job description please use the link below. https://careers.emdgroup.com/us/en/job/302140