Novartis

Therapeutic Area Strategy Director, Oncology – Hematology

Novartis

full-time

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Location Type: Hybrid

Location: Cambridge • Massachusetts • New Jersey • United States

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Salary

💰 $185,500 - $344,500 per year

Job Level

Lead

About the role

  • Support the creation and update of a holistic TA strategy
  • Provide early-phase commercial insights to project teams
  • Guide TA-specific internal pipeline development and external licensing / acquisitions opportunities
  • Support integrated enterprise alignment across Biomedical Research (BR), Development, Strategy & Growth (S&G), and the Commercial US and International units
  • Brings external benchmarking, analysis and insights, and judgement to support the TA Strategy Head
  • Derive insightful and differentiating competitive advantages over peers
  • Provide key commercial insights to R&D project teams, particularly for early phase programs
  • Analyze reports and publications to extract key messages, including building product forecasts
  • Support development and delivery of TA-specific strategic external insights

Requirements

  • Bachelor's degree required
  • Advanced degree (PhD, MD or other advanced University degree) and / or equivalent experience in life science/healthcare; MBA or consulting or equivalent experience highly preferred
  • In-depth TA knowledge (or track record to acquire required TA expertise effectively and rapidly) in Oncology and Hematology
  • Highly agile having the capacity to support a number of strategic DAs within a TA and multiple programs internal and external
  • Substantial experience evaluating new product opportunities (through M&A, BD&L and internal re-search programs)
  • At least 5-7 years of Industry pharma and/or medical devices
  • Experience in Research & Development and/or commercial functions with experience conducting, commissioning, analyzing primary research
  • Experience of strategy development and asset shaping early in lifecycle (any functional perspective)
  • Recent (post 2015) local US in-market experience; local US experience includes working within the US market with the local US customers, US health care systems / systems
Benefits
  • health, life and disability benefits
  • 401(k) with company contribution and match
  • generous time off package including vacation, personal days, holidays and other leaves
  • performance-based cash incentive
  • eligibility for annual equity awards
Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard Skills & Tools
TA strategycommercial insightspipeline developmentcompetitive analysisproduct forecastingM&A evaluationprimary research analysisstrategy developmentasset shaping
Soft Skills
agilityjudgmentinsight derivationcommunication
Certifications
Bachelor's degreePhDMDMBA