Cell Therapy Strategy and Commercial Executive Director

Key Accountabilities

• Deliver end-to-end Strategy, including:
  • Clear understanding and prioritization of current and future unmet needs
  • Indication-level strategic vision for both near-term and long-term
  • Integrated clinical strategy across all cell therapy platforms within the same indication
  • Work with global Clinical and ClinOps within respective TAs to develop comprehensive development strategy
  • Competitive early pipeline / long-term portfolio and life cycle management
  • Above-asset initiatives (e.g., Translational Medicine, Precision Medicine, Data Sciences)
• Own insights generation for R&D and commercial activities
• Oversees and guides development and integration of industry-leading competitive intelligence, customer insight, market intelligence and analytics helping the organization to frame business problems and opportunities
• Shape future-proofed strategies and deliver sustainably differentiated brands/early assets, business development opportunities and TA strategies
• Responsible for the robustness and transparency of the forecasts for PH3IDs
• Brings an intelligence-driven perspective to strategic recommendations by synthesizing insights from diverse sources and publicly available information at the brand and Therapeutic Area level for internal and external communication
• Responsible for creating and curating evidence bank from real world data sources to support the PH3ID forecasts created within the team

Responsibilities

• Build the referral capabilities between specific disease areas and the Cell Therapy delivery centers
• Partner closely across different areas of Cell Therapy, Global Commercial, in-market commercial and medical affairs teams to ensure execution of global strategy
• Lead and collaborate with cross-functional teams (e.g., GPTs, Clinical Development, Discovery, BD, Lifecycle and Pipeline, Competitive Intelligence) to develop disease area strategy content
• Provide strategic counselling to Global Clinical Strategy Head (GCSH), Global Commercial and Medical Affairs leadership, and other senior leaders

Qualifications

• Basic Qualifications
• Strong analytical and communication skills
• Strong business acumen and strategic thinking skills
• Ability to interact and communicate effectively with senior executive teams
• Ability to think critically, creatively and to anticipate and solve problems
• Ability to navigate and be successful in a fast-paced, highly-matrixed work environment
• Preferred Qualifications
• Strong analytical and communication skills
• Strong business acumen and strategic thinking skills
• Experience in strategic planning processes and tools
• Scientific background
• Understanding of the pharmaceutical business (including R&D)
• Experience in translating business needs into a coordinated plan from cross-functional senior leadership team
• Experience in translating business needs into a coordinated plan from cross-functional senior leadership team
• Experience in translating business needs into a coordinated plan from cross-functional senior leadership team
• Experience in translating business needs into a coordinated plan from cross-functional senior leadership team