Sr. New Product Commercialization Director

Neurocrine Biosciences

1d • $230,000 - $314,000 • Onsite

About The Position

Responsible for providing commercial leadership and overseeing the development and implementation of commercialization strategies for assigned therapeutic areas. Collaborates with cross-functional teams, oversees comprehensive commercial planning, provides strategic leadership to development teams, contributes to market intelligence, leads commercial development, creates brand plans, conducts customer insight generation, collaborates internally, and works closely with senior core team leads and stakeholders to ensure commercial success. Additionally, this position will be responsible for monitoring competitive therapies to inform decision-making and strengthen product candidate profiles.

Requirements

• BS/BA degree in a scientific or related field AND 15+ years of experience in pharmaceutical/biotech commercialization, with a focus on late-stage psychiatry products. OR Master's degree or MBA AND 13+ years of similar experience noted above
• Strong mentoring skills and leadership abilities to supervise lower levels and/or lead indirect teams, with the ability to motivate and inspire cross-functional teams to achieve commercial objectives
• Excellent strategic thinking, analytical, and problem-solving abilities, with a data-driven decision-making approach
• Outstanding communication and presentation skills, including strong written and oral communication abilities
• Demonstrated cross-functional leadership and ability to partner with colleagues across business, regulatory, and scientific functions within an organization
• Excellent teamwork, interpersonal skills, and leadership
• Demonstrated ability to thrive in a fast-paced, dynamic environment and drive results amidst ambiguity and complexity
• Experience working in a matrixed organization and navigating complex cross-functional dynamics
• Influences internal/external business and/or industry issues that have an impact on Neurocrine
• Exceptional command of data analytics, forecasting, and market research techniques with a proven ability to interpret market insights to guide strategic decision-making
• Proven track record of successful product launches and commercialization strategies, with a deep understanding of the therapeutic landscape and market dynamics
• Knowledge of new product commercialization/planning, prior brand marketing launch experience and/or experience leading and building brands
• Knowledge of biotechnology or pharmaceutical market, including sales, marketing, pricing, reimbursement, and product development
• Recognized Internal thought leader and deep expertise in a discipline
• Requires broad, deep and comprehensive expertise in leading-edge theories and techniques for functional area
• Applies ingenuity and creativity to problem analysis and resolution in complicated and/or novel situations
• Proven ability to translate strategy into tactical plans and drive outcomes
• Position will be in San Diego and remote work is not available, but Neurocrine offers some work-from-home flexibility

Responsibilities

• Provides strategic commercial leadership, oversees the development, and leads the implementation of commercialization strategies for assigned therapeutic areas, while collaborating with cross-functional teams to ensure alignment with company goals and strategies
• Oversee the creation and execution of comprehensive disease state and product-specific commercial plans to support successful market entry and growth
• Provide strategic leadership and guidance to the development teams, ensure effective commercial insights are incorporated to achieve commercialization objectives
• Contribute to ongoing market intelligence and customer insights, driving collaboration with key internal and external stakeholders to support market acceptance and adoption of late-stage psychiatry assets
• Represent the commercialization function in cross-functional meetings and presentations, effectively communicating commercial strategies and progress to senior leadership and external partners
• Lead commercial development to maximize the value of assets, build and implement pre-commercial marketing plans, and plan and conduct market research and analyses to refine market understanding and customer needs
• Create preliminary brand plans for specific products, develop and lead commercial advisory boards and Key Opinion Leader (KOL) engagements, and refine gap analyses, positioning, and value propositions within competitive frameworks
• Generate customer insights and recommendations to inform clinical development, evidence generation needs, and other elements impacting product labeling and overall commercial viability
• Work closely with internal Health Economics and Outcomes Research (HEOR) and Market Access teams to build appropriate evidence generation to support differentiation required for commercial success
• Collaborate closely with senior core team leads, Advocacy, Finance, Supply Chain, and other stakeholders to ensure commercial success
• Monitor competitive therapies of relevance to Neurocrine to allow development teams to react to new information by strengthening underlying product candidate profiles
• May perform other duties as assigned

Benefits

• Benefits offered include a retirement savings plan (with company match), paid vacation, holiday and personal days, paid caregiver/parental and medical leave, and health benefits to include medical, prescription drug, dental and vision coverage in accordance with the terms and conditions of the applicable plans.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Number of Employees: 1,001-5,000 employees