Novartis

Therapeutic Area Strategy Director, RLT

Novartis

full-time

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Origin:  • 🇺🇸 United States

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Salary

💰 $185,500 - $344,500 per year

Job Level

Lead

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About the role

  • Develop holistic TA strategy for RLT and support early-phase commercial insights
  • Provide external benchmarking, analysis and insights to TA strategy
  • Guide TA-specific internal pipeline development and external licensing / acquisitions opportunities
  • Support integrated enterprise alignment across Biomedical Research, Development, Strategy & Growth, and the US and International Commercial units
  • Analyses reports and publications to extract key messages, including building product forecasts
  • Supports development and delivery of TA-specific strategic external insights to support identification of growth opportunities, emerging competitive challenges and support creation of a third-party view around key strategic levers, and commissions targeted primary research
  • Successfully ensures accurate and timely delivery of key commercial insights for early phase projects to the program teams
  • Effectively manage the commercial transition from S&G to the US and International commercial units
  • Actively seeks input into the TA strategy from other internal experts (e.g. the Therapeutic Areas Leadership team)
  • Successfully completes ad-hoc requests as defined
  • Delivery of agreed health improvement partnership projects on time and within budget
  • High quality contributions to other HCS group activities
  • Feedback from project sponsors and (internal and external) key stakeholders regarding quality of project output and interaction

Requirements

  • Advanced degree (PhD, MD or other advanced University degree) or equivalent experience in life science/healthcare; MBA or consulting or equivalent experience highly desirable
  • In-depth knowledge of Oncology, including multiple tumor types (or track record to acquire required TA expertise effectively and rapidly)
  • Experience with RLT or demonstrated ability to learn complex, highly technical areas quickly
  • Highly agile having the capacity to support multiple strategic Disease Areas within a TA and multiple programs internal and external
  • Substantial experience evaluating new product opportunities (through M&A, BD&L and internal research 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 and developing forecasts
  • 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