Summary
Location: Basel, Switzerland. This role can also be based in the United States. If you are based in the US, please apply via REQ-10069549.
The Therapeutic Area Strategy Head will lead a therapeutic area focused team in the creation and ongoing update of a holistic and aligned Enterprise portfolio strategy for their Therapeutic Area (TA). The candidate will work closely with the senior leaders within the cardio‑renal‑metabolic (CRM) TA, including Bio‑medical Research (BR), Development, Commercial organizations in the US and International, and Search & Evaluation. The role requires a passion for innovation, deep industry experience, scientific acumen and strong judgement to guide internal choices and drive sustainable growth in the short, mid and long‑term in CRM.
Key Responsibilities
* Builds and maintains in‑depth knowledge of the TA (early pipeline to commercial), including disease models; responsible for ongoing assessment of peer companies with heavy exposure in the TA.
* Educates, updates and provides external views to all internal stakeholders; provides insight within key portfolio governance processes (diligence and external landscape mapping with BD&L and M&A).
* Supports identification of growth‑accretive opportunities, indications, disease spaces and rejection of low‑value opportunities/projects.
* Supports Group Investor Relations and the CEO Office with dissemination of key strategic insights.
* Ongoing collection and synthesis of scientific and commercial insights for the TA.
Owns TA Portfolio Strategy And Prioritization
* Leads the process of creating, maintaining and updating enterprise‑wide TA portfolio strategy, including disease area and molecule selection to drive mid‑ and long‑term growth in collaboration with RDC.
* Identifies potential pipeline gaps and makes recommendations to address them.
* Works closely with key stakeholders in the Therapeutic Area Leadership (TAL) team to facilitate portfolio decision‑making, prioritisation and trade‑offs.
Internal And External Commercial And Pipeline Modelling
* Oversees assessments of programs fit to current portfolio strategy and facilitates central review for assets inside and outside current priorities (e.g., at Innovation Management Board (IMB)).
* Provides consolidated commercial and development inputs to support business cases for internal and external assets and programmes.
* Provides outside‑in independent view of internal assumptions around core pipeline.
* Leads the development of assessment of external opportunities (e.g., forecast assumptions, business cases).
Others
* Coaches, attracts, develops and retains top talent; partners with P&O leadership to develop people strategy (e.g., organisation development, performance, career development).
* Plans, allocates and manages TA strategy financial budget by anticipating expenditures, accurately forecasting resource needs and costs and properly accounting for expenses to meet requirements and achieve fiscal responsibility.
Essential Requirements
* Advanced degree or equivalent experience in life science/healthcare required; cardiologist training highly desirable.
* Demonstrated cross‑functional global leadership experience is essential.
* Minimum 10 years of pharmaceutical/biotech experience in banking, consulting or biopharma, with exposure to drug development and ideally commercialization; proven ability to operate effectively in a highly matrixed, fast‑paced environment.
* Candidates with significant senior leadership experience — including biotech CEOs and executives from investment banking or other Wall Street institutions — are strongly preferred.
* Ability to engage comfortably with the C‑suite and mid‑career associates to influence and challenge with excellent interpersonal and leadership skills.
* Strong financial and business acumen with a strong understanding of the biopharma landscape, companies, assets and early technologies.
* Strong strategic vision, superior leadership, excellent communication, consensus building, and well‑developed influencing and negotiation skills.
* Excellent conflict resolution skills to facilitate agreement and buy‑in at the senior‑most levels.
* Experience leading and managing a team with a variety of insights from science to commercial and proven coaching and mentoring experience.
Commitment To Diversity And Inclusion
Novartis is committed to building an outstanding, inclusive work environment and diverse teams representative of the patients and communities we serve.
Accessibility And Accommodation
Novartis is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodation to all individuals. If, because of a medical condition or disability, you need a reasonable accommodation for any part of the recruitment process, or in order to receive more detailed information about the essential functions of a position, please send an e‑mail to diversity.inclusion_ch@novartis.com and let us know the nature of your request and your contact information. Please include the job requisition number in your message.
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