ED, Product Strategy Lead - Neuromuscular Disease

Key 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.

Essential Requirements:

• 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

Desirable Requirements:

• Neuromuscular therapeutic Area experience
• Global or other country/region experience (General Manager experience in other countries; projects or roles for 6 months or more)

Novartis Compensation Summary: The salary for this position is expected to range between $236,600 and $439,400 per year. The final salary offered is determined based on factors like, but not limited to, relevant skills and experience, and upon joining Novartis will be reviewed periodically. Novartis may change the published salary range based on company and market factors. Your compensation will include a performance-based cash incentive and, depending on the level of the role, eligibility to be considered for annual equity awards. US-based eligible employees will receive a comprehensive benefits package that includes health, life and disability benefits, a 401(k) with company contribution and match, and a variety of other benefits. In addition, employees are eligible for a generous time off package including vacation, personal days, holidays and other leaves.