About This Role:
As the R&D Business Portfolio Strategy Lead, you will serve as a senior strategic advisor to the Disease Unit (DU) Leadership team, acting as an integrator and trusted partner. Your primary mission is to enhance the effectiveness of the DU Head by promoting strategic alignment and improving decision-making processes. This role will involve supporting the development of strategic plans and preparing key deliverables related to the DU's portfolio and programs. You will translate data and analytics into value-creating strategies, optimizing strategies at the asset, franchise, and portfolio levels. In this capacity, you will coordinate DU priorities, ensuring clear direction and effective engagement with senior stakeholders. Operating at the intersection of strategy, leadership, and influence, your role is crucial to enabling a cohesive, high-performing DU.
What You’ll Do:
Serve as a thought partner and trusted advisor to the DU Head, providing strategic insight and counsel.
Act as a proxy for the DU Head in enterprise forums and leadership discussions.
Prepare and execute strategic engagements with Executive Leadership and other stakeholders.
Manage and track commitments made by the DU Head to ensure timely execution.
Synthesize complex inputs into clear insights and executive-level briefings.
Partner with senior leaders to plan leadership engagements and communications.
Contribute to strategic discussions and help shape DU priorities and direction.
Develop agendas for DU meetings, focusing on critical topics.
Drive alignment across Development functions by clarifying priorities and ensuring consistent messaging.
Develop mechanisms to track progress on high-priority DU initiatives.
Partner with senior leaders to integrate DU priorities into enterprise initiatives.
Lead scenario planning to anticipate risks and opportunities affecting strategy.
Who You Are:
You are a strategic thinker with a keen ability to translate complex data into actionable strategies. Your high emotional intelligence and sound judgment enable you to navigate ambiguity and sensitive situations effectively. You thrive in fast-paced environments and possess exceptional verbal and written communication skills. Your collaborative leadership style allows you to influence without direct authority and you excel at fostering alignment across diverse teams. You are a natural problem solver who enjoys synthesizing information to inform decision-making.
Required Skills:
Advanced degree in a relevant scientific discipline and/or MBA or equivalent advanced degree.
Minimum 7 years' experience in biotechnology, pharmaceutical, venture capital, or management consulting.
Proven ability to operate as a senior advisor in complex, matrixed organizations.
Exceptional written and verbal communication skills, including experience with executive-level materials.
High emotional intelligence and ability to navigate ambiguity.
Strong influencing skills without direct authority.
Preferred Skills:
Experience in strategic planning and execution.
Familiarity with cross-functional liaison and coordination.
Strong background in operational management and executive engagement.
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.
Biogen Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Biogen and has not been reviewed or approved by Biogen.
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Fair & Transparent Compensation — Pay is generally positioned as competitive and often perceived as fair across roles, with total compensation framed as strong when bonus and equity are included. Compensation sentiment is described as above-average overall, though it varies by function and business cycle.
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Equity Value & Accessibility — Equity programs are repeatedly highlighted as a meaningful part of the total package, including stock programs and an employee stock purchase plan. Equity and bonus elements are portrayed as important contributors to feeling well rewarded beyond base pay.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Time-off benefits are described as distinctive, including a year-end shutdown and a paid sabbatical after extended tenure. Vacation, holidays, sick time, and personal-significance days are also presented as supportive of work-life needs.
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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.
