Job Description Summary
The Therapeutic Area Strategy Head Radioligand Therapy (RLT) will lead a therapeutic area focused team in the creation and ongoing update of a holistic and aligned enterprise portfolio strategy for a key Novartis growth pillar RLT. The candidate will work closely with the ResearchDevelopmentCommercial continuum (RDC) comprising of key functions within Biomedical Research (BR) Development and Commercial organizations in US and International. The candidate will bring a passion for innovation deep RLT industry experience scientific acumen and strong judgement to guide internal choices and drive sustainable growth in the short mid and longterm for the platform. This individual will have both a broad and deep understanding of the RLT Platform including imaging and isotopes to derive insightful and differentiating competitive advantages over our peers by bringing a thirdparty view around key strategic levers and external analyses trends and white space opportunities. Additionally they will conduct targeted primary research in Radioligand and the broader oncology space.
Location: this role can be based in Basel Switzerland or the US. If applying in the US please refer to REQ.
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Job Description
Your responsibilities include but not limited to:
Provides external perspective and identifies opportunities:
- Builds and maintains indepth knowledge of the TA (early pipeline to commercial); including disease models; responsible for ongoing assessment of peer companies with emerging 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 opportunities/projects
- 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 TA portfolio strategy and prioritization:
- Leads the process of creating maintaining and updating enterprisewide TA portfolio strategy; including DA molecule and isotope selection to drive mid and longterm growth in collaboration with RDC and RDC
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 programs and isotopes
- Provides outsidein independent view of internal assumptions around core pipeline
- Leads the development of assessment of external opportunities (e.g. forecast assumptions business cases)
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
What youll bring to the role:
- Advanced degree or equivalent experience in life science/healthcare required; MBA highly desirable
- Excellent oral and written English communication skills.
- 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
- >3 years of experience with RLT technology
- Ability to comfortably engage with the Csuite and midcareer 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 welldeveloped influencing and negotiation skills
- Excellent conflict resolution skills to facilitate agreement and buyin at the seniormost levels
- Experience leading and managing a team with a variety of insights from science to commercial and proven coaching and mentoring experience
- Crossfunctional leadership experience is essential
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