Sr Dir, Therapeutic Innovation & Enablement

Job Level: Sr Dir Therapeutic Innovation & Enablement

Location: LATAM

Position Summary:

The Director of Therapeutic Innovation & Enablement is a strategic partner and innovation catalyst for IQVIAs Therapeutic Centers of Excellence. This role drives insightpowered differentiation accelerates the development of innovative solutions and enables therapeutic teams with the capabilities tools and frameworks necessary to see more and win more. The Director will work crossfunctionally to identify opportunity spaces shape solution strategy and help bring highimpact therapeutic offerings to market. This role requires a unique blend of therapeutic domain knowledge strategic thinking solution design expertise and exceptional collaboration skills.

Key Responsibilities:

• Strategic Insight & Differentiation: Lead the synthesis of therapeutic market and customer insights to identify unmet needs and whitespace opportunities. Translate insights into actionable recommendations and differentiated solution concepts. Support development of value propositions positioning and competitive intelligence strategy for TAaligned solutions.
• Innovation & Solution Development: Facilitate structured innovation processes (ideation concept evaluation prototype definition validation). Partner with COE members SMEs and crossfunctional teams to design and shape differentiated therapeutic solutions. Create scalable frameworks templates and best practices that improve consistency and speed across solution development efforts.
• Therapeutic Enablement & Capability Building: Build and maintain tools playbooks and enablement assets (e.g. TA aligned capability decks) that strengthen the effectiveness of therapeutic area teams. Guide teams in applying innovation methodologies market insight frameworks and solution design principles. Mentor internal stakeholders on approaches to differentiation and innovation excellence.
• Operational Excellence & CrossFunctional Collaboration: Serve as a connector across Therapeutic Strategy R&D Solutions and Real-World Evidence. Ensure strategic alignment and shared ownership across programs and solution initiatives. Support leadership reporting prioritization and portfolio visibility for innovation and growthrelated efforts.
• Impact Measurement & Continuous Improvement: Define measurable success criteria for solutions including market potential differentiation and commercial readiness. Track progress and outcomes to inform iteration and continuous improvement. Promote a culture of learning experimentation and disciplined execution.

Required Technical Skills and Expertise:

• Therapeutic and Market Expertise: Strong understanding of the biopharma drug development lifecycle and therapeutic strategy considerations. Experience analyzing therapeutic landscapes clinical pathways and competitive intelligence. Ability to translate scientific/clinical insights into strategic business implications.
• Innovation & Solution Design: Experience in solution development product strategy design thinking or innovation frameworks. Ability to develop clear and compelling value propositions solution blueprints and gotomarket narratives. Familiarity with structured innovation processes (e.g. stagegate Lean Startup customerdriven design).
• Strategic Analytical & Problem-Solving Skills: Advanced capability in synthesizing large amounts of information into clear actionable insights. Strong commercial thinking and ability to assess solution viability differentiation and market impact. Skilled in building business cases strategic frameworks and decisionsupport materials.
• Program & Stakeholder Management: Demonstrated ability to lead crossfunctional programs and drive alignment across diverse stakeholders. Comfortable managing multiple concurrent initiatives with structure clarity and discipline.

Minimum Required Education and Experience:

• Bachelors degree in life sciences required advanced degree preferred with specialization in one or more therapeutic areas and 10 years global clinical research relevant experience including hands-on operational delivery and/or drug development experience; or equivalent combination of education training and experience
• Extensive experience with Clinical Operations and Clinical Project Management
• Requires some Bid Defense experience
• Proven track record in operational delivery and/or drug development involvement

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