About the Role:
The Associate Director, Strategy & Launch Excellence will support the US Neuropsychiatry Franchise to ensure that the franchise is best positioned to deliver on its strategy and business priorities. This role will drive strategic initiatives in support of therapies that are crucial in advancing the care of patients with postpartum depression (PPD).
Reporting directly to the Head of Strategy & Operations, US Neuropsychiatry, you will manage development and implementation of key strategic initiatives both within the franchise and cross alliance with our collaboration partner. You’ll drive launch excellence from a top-down executive leadership perspective, by ensuring seamless bridge between working team activities and executive level communications.
What You’ll Do:
• Drive the portfolio strategic cross-functional projects for the US Neuropsych Franchise. Act as an expert consultant to help advise and guide these projects to ensure consistency and strategic coordination in their execution
• Develop executive level presentations for launch progress updates, business reviews, investor relations events to be shared with Biogen North America Leadership Team, Executive Committee, and Board of Directors
• Synthesize monthly cross-functional data insights for executive level updates on launch progress
• Establish and maintain a prioritized portfolio of key strategic initiatives in close collaboration with Neuropsych LT and cross-functional leaders to optimize how the Franchise delivers on its strategic objectives
Who You Are:
You thrive in a dynamic environment, bringing a strategic mindset and a collaborative spirit to every project. With excellent interpersonal skills, you excel at synthesizing complex information into clear, impactful presentations and communications. You are driven by the opportunity to contribute to groundbreaking treatments that can transform lives.
Required Skills:
• Bachelor’s Degree is required; MBA preferred
• 7+ years of experience consulting and leading large/complex programs and initiatives
• Ability to lead and influence in the matrix
• Excellent interpersonal skills/ highly collaborative
• Ability to cultivate strong internal/external network
• Strong operational skills; project/ timeline management capabilities
• Effective problem-solving skills
Preferred Skills:
• Extensive biotech/pharma launch management experience and alliance experience
Additional Information
Base salary offered is determined through an analytical approach utilizing a combination of factors including, but not limited to, relevant skills & experience, job location, and internal equity.
Regular employees are eligible to receive both short term and long-term incentives, including cash bonus and equity incentive opportunities, designed to reward recent achievements and recognize your future potential based on individual, business unit and company performance.
In addition to compensation, Biogen offers a full and highly competitive range of benefits designed to support our employees’ and their families physical, financial, emotional, and social well-being; including, but not limited to:
- Medical, Dental, Vision, & Life insurances
- Fitness & Wellness programs including a fitness reimbursement
- Short- and Long-Term Disability insurance
- A minimum of 15 days of paid vacation and an additional end-of-year shutdown time off (Dec 26-Dec 31)
- Up to 12 company paid holidays + 3 paid days off for Personal Significance
- 80 hours of sick time per calendar year
- Paid Maternity and Parental Leave benefit
- 401(k) program participation with company matched contributions
- Employee stock purchase plan
- Tuition reimbursement of up to $10,000 per calendar year
- Employee Resource Groups participation
Why Biogen?
We are a global team with a commitment to excellence, and a pioneering spirit. As a mid-sized biotechnology company, we provide the stability and resources of a well-established business while fostering an environment where individual contributions make a significant impact. Our team encompasses some of the most talented and passionate achievers who have unparalleled opportunities for learning, growth, and expanding their skills. Above all, we work together to deliver life-changing medicines, with every role playing a vital part in our mission. Caring Deeply. Achieving Excellence. Changing Lives.
At Biogen, we are committed to building on our culture of inclusion and belonging that reflects the communities where we operate and the patients we serve. We know that diverse backgrounds, cultures, and perspectives make us a stronger and more innovative company, and we are focused on building teams where every employee feels empowered and inspired. Read on to learn more about our DE&I efforts.
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, marital status, race, color, national origin, ancestry, ethnicity, religion, age, veteran status, disability, genetic information or any other basis protected by federal, state or local law. Biogen is an E-Verify Employer in the United States.
What We Do
Through cutting-edge science and medicine, Biogen discovers, develops and delivers innovative therapies worldwide for people living with serious neurological and neurodegenerative diseases.
Founded in 1978, Biogen is a pioneer in biotechnology and today the Company has the leading portfolio of medicines to treat multiple sclerosis, has introduced the first and only approved treatment for spinal muscular atrophy, and is at the forefront of neurology research for conditions including Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s disease and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. Biogen also manufactures and commercializes biosimilars of advanced biologics.
With approximately 7000 people worldwide, we are truly a global organization, headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts, which is also home to our research operations. Our international headquarters are based in Zug, Switzerland and we have world-class manufacturing facilities in North Carolina and Denmark. We offer therapies globally through direct affiliate presence in 30 countries and a network of distribution partners in over 50 additional countries.
For more information, please visit www.biogen.com. Follow us on social media – Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook, YouTube.
