Director, Regional Strategy and Business Development, APAC

Position Summary

We are seeking a highly motivated, intellectually curious, and commercially astute leader to join the Regional Leadership Team as Director, Regional Strategy & Business Development, reporting to the Regional General Manager / (Senior) Vice President with a dotted line to the SVP, Corporate Development & Strategy.

This is a high‑visibility role with frequent engagement across regional and global leadership, business units, and cross‑functional teams. The role serves as the architect and steward of the regional growth strategy, shaping regional priorities, enabling superior go‑to‑market execution, and selectively driving region‑focused business development initiatives, including partnerships, M&A evaluation, and portfolio optimization.

The successful candidate will develop proprietary market and competitive insights to inform strategic choices, translate strategy into clear execution roadmaps, and establish performance tracking mechanisms to measure impact. Close collaboration with global Corporate Strategy, Divisional, and Business Unit leaders is essential to ensure strong alignment between regional and global priorities.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the development and execution of the regional growth strategy, aligned with global corporate and divisional priorities.
• Generate deep market, customer, and competitive insights to inform strategic decision‑making and commercial investments.
• Translate strategic priorities into clear execution plans, milestones, and performance tracking frameworks.
• Partner with commercial, marketing, finance and operations teams to optimize go‑to‑market, channel, and distributor strategies.
• Lead regional M&A projects, from target identification through post-transaction integration processes, with a positive, lasting outcome and measurable results.
• Collaborate closely with Corporate Development on M&A pipeline development, strategic rationale, and integration planning, as applicable.
• Ensure strong alignment and coordination between regional strategy and global corporate/divisional strategies.
• Build and sustain productive relationships with senior internal and external stakeholders across a highly matrixed organization.

Education and Experience:

Required

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree (or equivalent); MBA strongly preferred.
• 10+ years of relevant strategic and commercial experience
• Experience in top‑tier management consulting and/or corporate strategy roles.
• Strong business acumen with demonstrated capabilities in strategy formulation, financial analysis, and execution planning.
• Proven ability to engage, influence, and communicate effectively with senior executives and key stakeholders in complex organizations.

• Deep regional market and cultural familiarity, including experience operating across multiple countries.
• Significant experience within the life sciences industry
• Demonstrated M&A, partnership, or corporate development experience.
• Experience working effectively within global, matrixed organizations.

Strategic Thinking

• Proven track record of leading strategic planning processes and driving execution outcomes.
• Ability to identify strategic fit, value creation levers, and risks for growth initiatives and transactions.
• Comfortable balancing long‑term strategy with near‑term commercial impact.
• Strong analytical capability combined with pragmatic “80/20” thinking.

• Ensures deal sourcing and structure to create value
• Enables setting of ambitious yet realistic deal models and identifies critical enablers
• Establishes integration roadmap to capture value
• Establishes a post-close tracking mechanism to measure success and identify countermeasures when needed

• Demonstrated leadership style grounded in integrity, accountability, humility, and courage.
• Ability to set a clear strategic direction and mobilize teams toward shared objectives.
• Confident advisor who can constructively challenge and influence executive leadership.

• Strong stakeholder management skills; able to build alignment across diverse perspectives.
• Effective negotiator with a solutions‑oriented, value‑creating mindset.
• Highly effective communicator who adapts style to different audiences and cultural contexts.
• Operates effectively in a highly matrixed, global environment, embodying company values.
• Take advantage of opportunities to build strategic relationships to achieve a specific outcome.
• Engage others in open dialogue and adapts own influence approach to different stakeholders in ways that address their interests or concerns.
• Anticipate emerging or potential conflicts among all stakeholders and takes steps to pre-empt them.

• Role can be based remotely within the Region, preferably close to one of our regional sites
• Willingness to travel internationally as required, with ~25% regional travel expected
• Flexibility to support cross‑regional collaboration across time zones.
• Potential need for short‑term international assignments, subject to business needs.

• We offer competitive wages along with extensive benefits for employees and their families.
• We invest in our employees’ financial futures through retirement programs and an employee stock purchase plan.
• We help our employees develop their careers through mentorship, promotional opportunities, training and development, internship programs, and more.
• We offer an international and diverse working environment, enriched by employee resource groups; volunteer and charity events; and employee events that build a culture of caring and belonging.
• We foster a culture of empowerment and innovation, where employees feel valued and encouraged to bring their new ideas to the table.

To protect the interests of all, Bio-Techne will not accept unsolicited resumes from any source other than a candidate application. Any unsolicited resumes sent to Bio-Techne will be considered Bio-Techne property.