Product Strategy Lead

The Opportunity:

The Product Strategy Lead is the endtoend owner of integrated Product Strategy for an assigned portfolio of products accountable for translating commercial ambition and R&D strategy into clear executable manufacturing and operations strategies across the full product lifecycle.

This role serves as the primary strategic integrator across Manufacturing and Technical Operations Commercial R&D Business Development Quality Regulatory Supply Chain Finance and Network Strategy. The Product Strategy Lead ensures productlevel decisions regarding investment capacity capability and lifecycle tradeoffs are coherent valuedriven and aligned to enterprise priorities enabling safe reliable supply of CSL products to patients.

Acting as the products representative in senior governance forums the Product Strategy Lead shapes and anchors productlevel strategic decisions ensuring leadership has a clear factbased view of options risks tradeoffs and value implications across time horizons.

The Role:

Product Strategy Ownership and Integration

• Owns the single integrated Product Strategy for assigned products ensuring endtoend alignment across Commercial R&D BD and Operations.

• Acts as the productlevel strategy decision owner within Operations accountable for framing options recommending tradeoffs and anchoring decisions adopted through governance.

• Ensures product strategies balance cost risk speed supply resilience and longterm enterprise value.

Portfolio & Lifecycle Strategy

• Leads endtoend product lifecycle strategy including development launch strategy growth optimization and endoflife decisions.

• Actively manages portfolio tradeoffs across assigned products including prioritization sequencing of investments and capacity or capability allocation.

• Ensures lifecycle decisions are grounded in both current performance and future portfolio needs.

Financial & Investment Framing

• Owns the financial and value framing of productlevel strategy decisions including investment rationale scenario analysis and longterm value impact.

• Provides product inputs into LongRange Planning (LRP) ensuring commercial assumptions manufacturing strategy and capacity plans are tightly aligned.

• Partners with Finance to ensure leadership decisions are supported by clear economic logic and value realization expectations.

Cross Functional Alignment and Orchestration

• Leads and orchestrates crossfunctional stakeholders across TechOps Network Strategy R&D Commercial Supply Chain Quality Regulatory Finance Procurement and BD.

• Drives alignment and resolves conflicts across competing priorities operating effectively without direct authority.

• Ensures execution ownership and decision rights are clear following governance outcomes.

Executive Governance & Communication

• Develops and presents decisionready recommendations to senior governance bodies including GLT members NRB ORB IBP and other executive forums.

• Distills complex technical regulatory manufacturing and financial information into clear executive narratives.

• Acts as a trusted strategic advisor to senior leaders on productlevel strategy matters.

Product Lifecycle and Portfolio Strategy

• Leads endtoend product lifecycle management including development launch growth optimization and endoflife decisions.

• Ensures portfolio strategy balances nearterm performance with longterm enterprise value creation.

Owns productlevel inputs into LongRange Planning (LRP)

• Converts commercial forecasts Business Development intent and lifecycle scenarios into clear demand volume timing and risk assumptions

• Ensures assumptions are internally consistent and defensible across functions

• Acts as the single source of truth for product demand logic in planning cycles

• Integrates LRP and capacity decisions into product lifecycle strategy

• Shapes capacity and network strategy decisions through influence not ownership

Ways of Working & Strategy Maturity

• Continuously improves Product Strategy ways of working tools and governance interfaces across Product Strategy Network Strategy IPTs and Operations.

• Establishes clarity on accountability decision rights and handoffs to improve speed and quality of execution.

• Contributes to the maturation of product strategy capability across the organization.

Skills & Experience:

• BS or BA in science and/or engineering (biotechnology biology chemistry pharmacy engineering or a related sciences).

• Master or advanced degree (sciences or business) preferred.

• 15 years of experience across manufacturing operations product strategy supply chain or lifecycle management within a regulated pharmaceutical or biotech environment.

• Demonstrated experience integrating commercial R&D and manufacturing strategies at enterprise scale.

• Proven experience influencing and presenting to senior executive and C-suite stakeholders.

• Strong background in portfolio strategy lifecycle optimization and investment decisionmaking.

• Experience operating effectively across global matrixed organizations

• Capability to work in a global environment across time-zones which may require meeting times outside of a normal business hours.

Up to 10% domestic and international

About CSL Behring

CSL Behring is a global biotherapeutics leader driven by our promise to save lives. Focused on serving patients needs by using the latest technologies we discover develop and deliver innovative therapies for people living with conditions in the immunology hematology cardiovascular and metabolic respiratory and transplant therapeutic areas. We use three strategic scientific platforms of plasma fractionation recombinant protein technology and cell and gene therapy to support continued innovation and continually refine ways in which products can address unmet medical needs and help patients lead full lives.

CSL Behring operates one of the worlds largest plasma collection networks CSL Plasma. Our parent company CSL headquartered in Melbourne Australia employs 32000 people and delivers its lifesaving therapies to people in more than 100 countries.

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