Business Development Emerging Markets

Viatris is a global healthcare company uniquely positioned to bridge the traditional divide between generics and brands, combining the best of both to more holistically address healthcare needs globally. With a mission to empower people worldwide to live healthier at every stage of life, we provide access at scale, currently supplying high-quality medicines to approximately 1 billion patients around the world annually and touching all of life's moments, from birth to the end of life, acute conditions to chronic diseases.

We have been included on number of award lists that demonstrate the impact we are making.

Our Story

At VIATRIS, we see healthcare not as it is but as it should be. We act courageously and are uniquely positioned to be a source of stability in a world of evolving healthcare needs.

Viatris empowers people worldwide to live healthier at every stage of life.

We do so via:

• Access – Providing high quality trusted medicines regardless of geography or circumstance;
• Leadership – Advancing sustainable operations and innovative solutions to improve patient health; and
• Partnership – Leveraging our collective expertise to connect people to products and services.

Our global portfolio includes best-in-class, iconic brand-name products as well as global key brands; generics, including branded and complex generics; and other offerings across a wide range of therapeutic areas. We are committed to helping create healthier communities worldwide through education, outreach and better access to treatment.

For those driven to live their lives with purpose, Viatris helps employees realise their full potential by creating a collaborative culture that fosters courage and resilience. Viatris is more than just a place to work. This is a place to make a difference in the world.

The Role & What You Will Be Doing

The Business Development Emerging Marketswill support the identification, evaluation, and execution of strategic growth opportunities across designated emerging markets. The primary focus of this role will be on generics, complex generics, established brands, and mature brands nearing loss of exclusivity (LOE). In addition, the Manager will assist in evaluating select innovative product opportunities that align with the company’s regional strategy and operational capabilities. This role requires strong analytical skills, financial acumen, and cross-functional coordination. The Manager will work closely with Regional and Local Leaders teams to support transaction execution and ensure opportunities are commercially and operationally viable across diverse emerging markets and eventually source and close deals by themselves.

Every day, we rise to the challenge to make a difference and here’s how the Business Development Emerging Markets role will make an impact:

• Support identification and screening of opportunities across generics, complex generics, established brands, and LOE assets in emerging markets.
• Evaluate innovative product opportunities that complement the core portfolio.
• Conduct market research and competitive analysis across multiple countries.
• Support outreach efforts to market Viatris as a Partner of choice in the region & globally
• Maintain regional deal pipeline tracking and reporting.
• Assist in financial modeling and valuation analysis (NPV, IRR, scenario modeling).
• Develop preliminary business cases and opportunity assessments.
• Summarize risks, assumptions, and value drivers for senior review.
• Support coordination of cross-functional diligence workstreams.
• Track diligence deliverables cross-functionally.
• Assess commercialization viability considering infrastructure, pricing, and access limitations.
• Support development of recommendations for differentiated or niche opportunities.
• Collaborate with Regional and Local Commercial teams to align BD initiatives with market needs.
• Advance Business Development deals in the region and eventually source and close deals by themselves

About Your Skills & Experience

For this role, we’re looking for a candidate who has an effective combination of the following qualifications, skills and experiences:

• 4–8 years of experience in pharmaceutical business development, commercial strategy, consulting, investment banking, or strategic finance.
• Experience in Emerging Markets preferred.
• Experience in Business Development/Corporate Development
• Strong analytical and financial modeling skills (risk adjusted DCF, share of NPV, Comps analysis etc.)
• Understanding of generics, established brands, and LOE strategies in price-sensitive markets.
• Ability to work across multiple geographies and navigate diverse regulatory environments.
• Strong project management and organizational skills.
• Effective communicator with ability to synthesize complex information.

At Viatris, we are dedicated to building a truly diverse, inclusive and authentic workplace, so if you’re excited about this role but your past experience doesn’t fully align with every requirement, we still encourage you to apply. You may just be the right candidate for this or other roles.

Benefits at Viatris

At Viatris, we offer competitive salaries, benefits and an inclusive environment where you can use your experiences, perspectives and skills to help make an impact on the lives of others. Some of our benefits include the following on top of a competitive salary:

• Excellent career progression opportunities
• Work-life balance initiatives
• Bonus scheme
• Health insurance
• Pension

Diversity & Inclusion at Viatris

At Viatris, diversity and inclusion are essential to our mission. The diversity we foster in all aspects of our business can be one of our greatest strengths in redefining healthcare not as it is, but as it should be. If you would like to know more about what diversity, equity and inclusion means to us, please visit

Sustainability at Viatris

Corporate social responsibility is fundamental to the Viatris mission. We work to advance responsible and sustainable operations and leverage our collective expertise to empower people to live healthier at every stage of life, recognizing that our actions affect the stakeholders and communities we serve. To learn more about our efforts, please visit

At Viatris, we offercompetitivesalaries, benefitsandan inclusive environment where you can use your experiences, perspectives and skills to help make an impact on the lives of others.

Viatris is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

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