Hybrid Executive Director, Therapeutic Area Strategy – Oncology, Hematology

at Kerr Dental

• Job title: Executive Director, Therapeutic Area Strategy – Oncology, Hematology
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Lead
• Salary: $248,500 - $461,500 per year
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Cambridge, United States

About the role

• Executive Director driving the TA strategy for Oncology & Hematology at Novartis. Leading collaboration teams to support commercial insights, pipeline development, and strategic alignment.

Responsibilities

• Support the creation and update of a holistic TA strategy
• Provide early-phase commercial insights to project teams
• Guide TA-specific internal pipeline development and external licensing / acquisitions opportunities
• Support integrated enterprise alignment across Biomedical Research (BR), Development, Strategy & Growth (S&G), and the Commercial US and International units
• Brings external benchmarking, analysis and insights, and judgement to support the TA Strategy Head in developing a holistic Novartis TA strategy that achieves sustainable growth in short, mid and long-term
• Provide key commercial insights to the R&D project teams, particularly for early phase programs
• Analyse reports and publications to extract key messages, including building product forecasts
• Support development and delivery of TA-specific strategic external insights to support identification of growth opportunities, emerging competitive challenges and support creation of a third-party view around key strategic levers, and commission targeted primary research

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree required
• Advanced degree (PhD, MD or other advanced University degree) and / or equivalent experience in life science/healthcare; MBA or consulting or equivalent experience highly preferred
• In-depth TA knowledge (or track record to acquire required TA expertise effectively and rapidly) in Oncology and/or Hematology
• Highly agile having the capacity to support a number of strategic DAs within a TA and multiple programs internal and external
• Substantial experience evaluating new product opportunities (through M&A, BD&L and internal research programs)
• 7-10 years of Industry pharma and/or medical device experience
• Experience in Research & Development and/or commercial functions with experience conducting, commissioning, analyzing primary research
• Experience of strategy development and asset shaping early in lifecycle (any functional perspective)
• Recent (post 2015) local US in-market experience; local US experience includes working within the US market with the local US customers, US health care systems / systems

Benefits

• Health, life and disability benefits
• 401(k) with company contribution and match
• Generous time off package including vacation, personal days, holidays and other leaves
• Performance-based cash incentive