Therapeutic Area Strategy Head, Neuroscience

Key responsibilities:

Provides external perspective and identifies opportunities:

• Builds and maintains in-depth knowledge of the TA (early pipeline to commercial); including disease models; responsible for ongoing assessment of peer companies with heavy exposure in the TA.
• Educates, updates and provides external views to all internal stakeholders.  Provides insight within key portfolio governance processes (diligence and external landscape mapping with BD&L and M&A)
• Supports identification of growth accretive opportunities, indications, disease spaces and rejection of low value
• Supports Group Investor Relations and the CEO Office with dissemination of key strategic insights
• Ongoing collection and synthesis of scientific and commercial insights for the TA

Owns therapeutic area portfolio strategy and prioritization:

• Leads the process of creating, maintaining and updating Enterprise-wide TA portfolio strategy; including DA and molecule selection to drive mid- and long-term growth in collaboration with IM, GDD, & NIBR
• Identifies potential pipeline gaps, makes recommendations to address
• Works closely with key stakeholders (e.g., PS&A GPSC, IM-US, MAP team, NIBR, GDD) to facilitate portfolio decision making, prioritization and trade-offs

Internal and External Commercial and Pipeline Modelling:

• Oversees assessments of programs fit to current portfolio strategy and facilitates central review for assets inside and outside current priorities (e.g., at Innovation Management Board (IMB)
• Provides consolidated commercial and development inputs to support business cases for internal and external assets and programs
• Provides outside-in independent view of internal assumptions around core pipeline
• Leads the development of assessment of external opportunities (e.g., forecast assumptions)

Others:

• Coaches, attracts, develops, and retains top talents; partners with P&O leadership to develop people strategy (e.g. organization development, performance, career development).
• Plans, allocates, and manages TA strategy financial budget by anticipating expenditures, accurately forecasting resource needs/costs and properly accounting for expenses to meet requirements and achieve fiscal responsibility.

Minimum Requirements:

• Advanced degree or equivalent experience in life science/healthcare required; MBA highly desirable
• Significant (3+ years) and recent (post 2017) local US experience preferred; local US experience includes working within the US market (with the local US customers, US health care systems / systems of care, US payors / accounts, etc.), driving US market strategy
• Excellent oral and written English communication skills. Additional languages are advantageous
• ≥10 years of pharmaceutical/biotech experience from either banking, consulting or biopharma covering drug development and ideally commercialization with an ability to work in a matrix environment
• Ability to comfortably engage with the C-suite and mid-career associates to influence and challenge with excellent interpersonal and leadership skills
• Strong financial and business acumen with strong understanding of biopharma landscape; companies, assets and early technologies
• Strong strategic vision, superior leadership, excellent communication, consensus building, and well-developed influencing and negotiation skills
• Excellent conflict resolution skills to facilitate agreement and buy-in at the senior-most levels
• Experience leading and managing a team with a variety of insights from science to commercial and proven coaching and mentoring experience
• Cross-functional experience preferred (in particular access experience)

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