Director – Pharmaceutical Sciences Portfolio Strategy Lead

Director – Pharmaceutical Sciences Portfolio Strategy Lead

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree with 15-18+ years relevant industry experience
• Master’s degree with 14-16+ years relevant industry experience
• PhD with 8-10+ years relevant industry experience
• In-depth knowledge of pharmaceutical development across modalities: drug development, process chemistry, biologics, formulation development, analytical development, and/or statistics
• In-depth knowledge of End-to-End drug development from research to commercial
• Outstanding communication skills including the ability to interact with all levels of management including the most senior leaders in R&D
• Must be able to directly link, and articulate to others, project/program and portfolio management capability to strategy
• Must have people management experience
• Must be familiar with relevant digital portfolio systems
• Functions well under pressure in a changing environment
• Ability to work well in a cross-functional team environment and drive resolution of issues while maintaining positive working relationships across functions
• Exercises exceptional time management skills and can successfully manage multiple tasks simultaneously
• Strong external CMC industry connectivity
• Up to date on latest industry trends and technology

Responsibilities

• Leverage digital and AI tools to provide insights based on analytical and qualitative assessments, translating complex insights into simple, actionable recommendations
• Collaborate with R&D digital transformation team (AF) to establish new ways of real-time and effective portfolio prioritization, decision making and analytics on key performance indicators
• Deliver competitive intelligence and industry benchmarking exercises to examine where Pharm Sci is relative to the industry in key areas
• Optimize R&D CMC portfolio development cycle times in collaboration with Pharm Sci Teams
• As a key advisor to CMC leadership, play a critical part in shaping future portfolio strategy
• Track portfolio milestone progression and strategy across R&D
• Lead and facilitate the R&D CMC Governance Office Forums & Operations
• Provide strategic CMC development guidance and influence to program leads
• Deliver continuous improvements and expand awareness of CMC Governance throughout R&D, Commercial, Global Manufacturing and Quality
• Collaborate with the Pharm Sci PMO to develop and maintain portfolio management tools, methodologies and dashboards
• Lead and support R&D and Pharm Sci strategic initiatives to improve portfolio management, program/portfolio strategy and/or execution
• Connect CMC & R&D/Commercial strategy and operations to understand pipeline changes
• Drive the data collection, analysis summary and communications of R&D pipeline metrics
• Accountable for annual CMC team goal setting strategy, process, execution tracking and routine reporting on CMC KPIs
• Lead external benchmarking exercises with outside agencies
• Facilitate coordination for major governance interactions outside of R&D CMC
• Identify internal strategic imperatives and develop mechanisms to effectively respond to evolving business needs
• Ensure R&D CMC leverages the most effective AI/Digital tools
• Drive communications of ongoing strategic initiatives, portfolio updates, & CMC Town Halls meetings
• Primary point of contact and interface for all pipeline metrics, portfolio business insights and analytics for strategic planning

Preferred Qualifications

• Technical, data sciences or natural sciences degree beneficial
• Keen sense of continuous learning and improvement