Associate Director, Commercial Immunology Strategy

About the role

The Associate Director will help drive commercial strategy and business operations projects across the Neuroscience and Eye Care business, that includes Psychiatry, Migraine, Parkinson's Disease, BOTOX Therapeutics and Eye Care.

Responsibilities

• Lead key commercial on‑market strategic initiatives that lay the strategic foundation to maximize patient impact of in‑line brands.
• Work with brand teams to lead the development of launch strategy for launch‑ready products.
• Lead key strategic initiatives across Neuroscience that identify longer‑term growth (e.g., Strategy LRP, BD assessment, Roadmap and Brand planning).
• Foster positive working relationships and be highly collaborative with franchise brand teams, Finance, Medical, R&D, Market Access, HEOR, Market Analytics and Business Insights (MABI), Sales Training, Sales Force Effectiveness, Regulatory, Customer Experience, and other cross‑franchise teams to gain input into developing strategic and operational projects.
• Demonstrate the ability to lead without authority while building a collaborative, integrated approach across the organization.
• Report to the Director, US Commercial Strategy, Operations and Planning (Neuroscience and Eye Care) and support data analytical execution, creating strong narratives on insights and communication with key stakeholders and executive leadership.

Qualifications

• BA/BS required; MBA or advanced degree (PhD, MD) preferred.
• At least 5‑7 years of professional industry experience with a successful track record in management consulting (≥2 years), pipeline management, or pharmaceutical marketing, with strong analytical and strategic marketing skills.
• Previous experience in pharma R&D, Corporate Strategy, Brand Management, and/or Marketing.
• Deep understanding and experience with Neuroscience and Eye Care products, both inline and in development.
• Demonstrated excellent communication and presentation skills across a variety of organization levels and disciplines, including senior executives.

Skills

• Strong analytical and strategic marketing skills; ability to learn new disease states.
• Strong ability to communicate ideas and make the complex easy to understand.
• Good financial acumen with understanding of P&L drivers.
• Self‑starter, proactively driving projects toward successful completion.
• Experience with matrix‑based teams and project management.
• Works collaboratively and proactively; maintains high degree of planning, coordination & project management skills; demonstrated ability to problem solve & resolve conflict diplomatically.
• Builds strong relationships with peers and cross‑functional partners outside the immediate team.
• Exhibits strong emotional intelligence, diplomacy, maintenance of confidentiality, maturity, and organizational savvy.
• Self‑starter, learns fast, quickly grasps the essence of concepts, can change course rapidly where required, demonstrates intellectual curiosity.
• Executes highly effective working team meetings with internal and external partners; visibly inclusive and transparent.
• Excellent command of MS PowerPoint and MS Excel.
• Experience working with pre‑launch, launch, and/or on‑market commercial teams (preferred