Director, Product Strategy Lead - RLT

Novartis•East Hanover, NJ
•$185,500 - $344,500•Hybrid

About The Position

The Director, Product Strategy Lead (PSL) drives the development and execution of integrated product strategies and guides key decisions and resource allocation across cross-functional teams. The role contributes to management of the assigned product’s full P&L and partners with the Executive Director, Product Strategy Lead, General Manager, and functional leaders to support strategic, high-impact decisions. As a member of the Integrated Product Strategy Organization, the PSL provides transformational enterprise leadership and embeds customer engagement and relationship-building in the product’s strategic approach. The position defines priorities and impact measures for an assigned product or indication, leads and measures execution against the integrated strategy’s KPIs, and contributes to product financial results and cross-functional resource allocation. It also coordinates KPI management across functions, partners with functional heads on trade-offs, and works with other general managers and Product Strategy team members on enterprise decisions, including trade-offs between products or indications.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree required.
  • At least 8 years of experience in pharmaceutical, biotech, healthcare, or healthcare consulting, including experience in at least two different full-time cross-functional roles for at least one year each in Sales, Marketing, Market Access, NPS, IDS, or Medical.
  • At least 2 years of direct responsibility for large budget management, including ownership of key product trade-off decisions.
  • At least 2 years leading and translating an integrated product strategy requiring global and local alignment.
  • US market, launch, and product lifecycle stage experience, or General Manager experience in another country.

Nice To Haves

  • MBA preferred.
  • US pharmaceutical commercial experience strongly preferred.
  • Prostate cancer therapeutic-area experience.
  • Global or other country/region experience through projects, full-time roles, or temporary roles lasting 6 months or more.

Responsibilities

  • Define critical integrated priorities and impact measures for the assigned product or indication with the cross-functional product strategy team, under the General Manager’s final leadership.
  • Integrate and lead the product strategy, measure its KPIs, and take decisive action to improve product impact.
  • Contribute to product or indication P&L management while enabling partner functions to manage day-to-day resources.
  • Contribute to topline results through strategic choices.
  • Contribute to cross-functional resource allocation to deliver the highest impact.
  • Establish and coordinate KPI management across functions accountable for the integrated product strategy.
  • Partner with functional heads in trade-off decisions.
  • Partner with other general managers and Product Strategy team members on enterprise decisions, including potential trade-offs between products or indications.
  • Embed customer engagement and relationship-building in the product’s strategic approach.

Benefits

  • Performance-based cash incentive.
  • Depending on role level, eligibility to be considered for annual equity awards.
  • Health benefits.
  • Life benefits.
  • Disability benefits.
  • 401(k) with company contribution and match.
  • Vacation, personal days, holidays, and other leaves.
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