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Exec Dir, Product Strategy Lead - DM1

Cambridge, MA · On-site +1

$236K - $439K/yr

The Executive Director, Product Strategy Lead (PSL) will lead the creation, implementation, orchestration and measurement of the integrated product strategies for an indication of a product within a ...

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Exec Dir, Product Strategy Lead - FSHD

Novartis

Cambridge, MA • On-site

Full-time

Posted 17 hours ago

Novartis rating

7.4

Company rating: 7.4 out of 10

Based on 8 frontline employees who took The Breakroom Quiz

53rd of 71 rated pharmaceutical

Job description

Job Summary:
Novartis is a leading pharmaceutical company, and they are seeking an Executive Director, Product Strategy Lead for their product strategy team. This role will lead the creation and implementation of integrated product strategies, manage P&L, and ensure collaboration across various functions to maximize product impact in the US market.
Responsibilities:
• Define critical and 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
• Significant contribution 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
• Significant contribution 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 partner 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
Qualifications:
Required:
• Bachelor’s Degree, preferred MBA
• 10+ years in pharmaceutical, biotech, healthcare, or healthcare consulting industry inclusive of at least 2 different types of cross-functional roles/experience
• 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
• US Market, launch and product lifecycle stages experience, OR, General Manager experience in other countries
Preferred:
• Therapeutic Area experience
• US experience strongly preferred
• Global or other country / region experience (Projects or full time roles or temporary roles for 6 months or more)
Company:
Novartis is a pharmaceutical company that researches and develops medicines for serious diseases to improve and extend people's lives. It is a sub-organization of Meye Asset Management. Founded in 1996, the company is headquartered in Basel, CHE, with a team of 10001+ employees. The company is currently Late Stage.

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