Novartis · 3 weeks ago
ED, Product Strategy Lead - Neuromuscular Disease
East Hanover, NJ
Full-time
Onsite
Director/Executive
$237K/yr - $439K/yr
10+ years expNovartis is seeking an Executive Director, Product Strategy Lead for Neuromuscular Disease to lead the integrated product strategies for a specific indication. This role involves significant decision-making to maximize product impact, manage resource allocation, and collaborate across various teams to drive performance metrics.
BiotechnologyHealth CareMedicalPharmaceuticalPrecision Medicine
Responsibilities
Define critical/specific integrated priorities and key impact measures for assigned product/indication in consultation with the cross-functional product strategy team under the final leadership of the General Manager
Integrate, lead, measure and take decisive action against the KPIs on the integrated product strategy to raise impact for product
Contribute significantly to the P&L of a product/indication while enabling partner functions to manage day-to-day resource management
Significant contribution to the topline results as an outcome of strategic choices and to the integrated cross-functional resource allocation to deliver highest impact
Establish and coordinate management of KPI’s across all functions accountable for the integrated product strategy
Appropriately collaborate with functional heads in trade-off decisions
Partner with other General Managers and members of the Product Strategy team for enterprise decisions, including potential trade-offs between products/indications
Act as a key member of the General Manager team in the Integrated Product Strategy organization and demonstrate accountability for the assigned product or indication with responsibility for broader enterprise leadership in their decisions and engagement across the US Pharma organization
Ensure that customer engagement and relationship building are factored into the product/indications’ strategic approach and performance metrics to optimize the approach and identify potential areas of risk
Contribute to the management of the full P&L for the assigned product, under the final leadership of the General Manager for the product or portfolio and will partner closely with functional heads for decision-making of resource allocation to deliver the most accelerated impact for the product
Qualification
Required
Education: Bachelor's Degree required; MBA preferred
10+ years in pharmaceutical, biotech, healthcare, or healthcare consulting industry inclusive of at least 2 different types of cross-functional roles/experience. Cross-functional roles/experience means the applicant has worked in different full-time roles for at least 1 year each in Sales, Marketing, Market Access, Patient Services, Medical, or Insights and Decision Science
3+ years of direct responsibility for large budget management inclusive of owning key product trade-off decisions
3+ years leading and translating an integrated product strategy requiring global and local alignment
Experience in a US commercial role with launch experience and product lifecycle stages experience
Rare disease experience
Leadership experience with a passion for transformational enterprise leadership and decisive strategy in service of delivering higher impact for patients, customers, and healthcare systems with higher quality, speed and agility
Preferred
Neuromuscular therapeutic Area experience
Global or other country/region experience (General Manager experience in other countries; projects or roles for 6 months or more)
Benefits
Health, life and disability benefits
401(k) with company contribution and match
A generous time off package including vacation, personal days, holidays and other leaves
Company
Novartis
Novartis is a pharmaceutical company that researches and develops medicines for serious diseases to improve and extend people's lives.
10001+ employees
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$2.49BKey Investors
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
2024-06-19Post Ipo Debt· $2.49B
2018-02-14Grant· $6.5M
2000-05-19IPO
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Vice President & Global Program Head
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