Director, Stakeholder Strategy Lead; Oncology​/Emerging

As an employee of Boehringer Ingelheim, you will actively contribute to the discovery, development and delivery of our products to our patients and customers. Our global presence provides opportunity for all employees to collaborate internationally, offering visibility and opportunity to directly contribute to the companies' success. We realize that our strength and competitive advantage lie with our people. We support our employees in a number of ways to foster a healthy working environment, meaningful work, mobility, networking and work-life balance.

Our competitive compensation and benefit programs reflect Boehringer Ingelheim's high regard for our employees.

The Stakeholder Strategy Lead owns the lifecycle-based external HCP and expert engagement strategy for an assigned Therapeutic Area (TA), customer group or portfolio, as determined at the TA level. The role connects pipeline, launch and in-line asset priorities into a single coherent external HCP and expert engagement strategy and determines who BI engages, why each relationship matters, and what scientific or medical objective it advances.

The role establishes proactive annual planning and a defined prioritization cycle.

The incumbent owns: expert landscape mapping, tiering and prioritization against defined criteria; the annual TA stakeholder engagement strategy and integrated engagement plan; criteria for the medical-universe along with defining criteria to inform compliant customer facing medical and commercial engagement targets; strategic external partnership planning; congress expert strategy; and the prioritization of access to external expertise across assets and functions. The incumbent serves as the single strategic entry point for expert-led partnership opportunities and retains direct strategic ownership of a defined set of the highest-priority external relationships, including personal engagement with selected senior experts and organizations.

The Stakeholder Strategy Lead retains accountability for overall stakeholder strategy, expert prioritization, relationship objectives, strategic partnership decisions and a defined set of the highest-priority external relationships. The Stakeholder Operations Lead, who reports to this role, maintains ongoing relationships with assigned prioritized experts and supports execution of the approved engagement strategy. Detailed scheduling, contracting, meeting logistics and other administrative activities may be supported by stakeholder engagement project coordination resources where applicable.

Expert Landscape Mapping, Tiering and Prioritization:

Accountable for identification, mapping, segmentation and tiering of the TA's external expert universe against defined, documented criteria.

Maintains an integrated view of Key External Experts, Centers of Excellence, professional societies, committees, healthcare innovators and their circles of influence.

Uses data and analytics to identify established and emerging experts and to detect shifts in influence across the expert landscape.

Accountable for the facilitation of compliant interactions with external experts and the BI US HQ medical and/or commercial leadership team.

Defines the scientific, clinical and informational needs of each prioritized expert and HCP segment, and sets and refreshes strategic engagement objectives against those needs, medical strategy and lifecycle stage.

Annual Engagement Strategy and Integrated Planning:

Owns the annual TA stakeholder engagement strategy and the single integrated engagement plan, specifying which initiatives, communications and engagements are delivered to which tier — by whom, through which…