Director, Therapeutic Area Strategy, CRM

Job Description Summary

Salary Range: CHF - CHF

Job Description Summary

Location:

Basel Switzerland or Cambridge, MA. This role will follow a hybrid working model. If based in the US, please apply to REQ- LI-#hybrid

The Novartis Strategy & Growth Therapeutic Area Strategy team for Cardio, Renal, and Metabolic (CRM) is seeking a Strategy Director. This role will support the development and ongoing evolution of a holistic TA strategy, provide early-phase commercial insights to project teams, and guide TA-specific internal pipeline development as well as external licensing and acquisition opportunities. The role will also support integrated enterprise alignment across Biomedical Research (BR), Development, Strategy & Growth (S&G), and Commercial US and International teams.

• Brings external benchmarking, analysis and insights, and judgement to support the TA Strategy Head in developing a holistic Novartis TA strategy that achieves sustainable growth in short, mid and long-term.
• Brings both understanding of the pharmaceutical industry and the core Therapeutic Areas (TA) and Disease area of CRM to derive insightful and differentiating competitive advantages over our peers.
• Provides key commercial insights to the R&D project teams, particularly for early phase programs. To do this effectively, in-market experience in the US is critical.
• 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.

• 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 CRM.
• 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

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