Senior Director, Device Portfolio and Business Development

Viatris is a global healthcare company uniquely positioned to bridge the traditional divide between generics and brands, combining the best of both to more holistically address healthcare needs globally. With a mission to empower people worldwide to live healthier at every stage of life, we provide access at scale, currently supplying high-quality medicines to approximately 1 billion patients around the world annually and touching all of life's moments, from birth to the end of life, acute conditions to chronic diseases.

We have been included on number of award lists that demonstrate the impact we are making.
 

Our global portfolio includes best-in-class, iconic brand-name products as well as global key brands; generics, including branded and complex generics; and other offerings across a wide range of therapeutic areas. We are committed to helping create healthier communities worldwide through education, outreach and better access to treatment.

For those driven to live their lives with purpose, Viatris helps employees realise their full potential by creating a collaborative culture that fosters courage and resilience. Viatris is more than just a place to work. This is a place to make a difference in the world.

The Role & What You Will Be Doing

Reporting to the Head of Global Device Development, you will be responsible for leading portfolio strategy, business development support, technology assessment, and strategic partnerships across our global device portfolio.

As a member of the GDD Leadership Team, you will play a critical role in identifying, evaluating, and advancing new device and combination product opportunities, ensuring a robust pipeline aligned with both portfolio priorities and enterprise growth objectives.

This role offers significant exposure across R&D, Portfolio Strategy, Business Development, Regulatory Affairs, Commercial, and Executive Leadership teams, providing the opportunity to influence key investment and portfolio decisions at a global level.

Portfolio Strategy & Business Development

• Lead technical and commercial due diligence for new device and combination product opportunities.
• Assess development feasibility, regulatory pathways, technical risks, commercial potential, manufacturability, and strategic fit.
• Partner with Business Development and Global Portfolio Strategy teams to evaluate licensing, acquisition, and partnership opportunities.
• Represent Global Device Development within portfolio governance and investment review forums.
• Develop business cases, investment recommendations, budgets, timelines, and risk assessments to support data-driven decision making.

Technology Assessment & Strategic Partnerships

• Evaluate emerging drug delivery and medical device technologies.
• Define proof-of-concept and early-stage development strategies to support portfolio growth.
• Monitor external technology, supplier, and competitive landscapes to identify future opportunities.
• Establish and maintain strategic relationships with suppliers, technology partners, and external development organisations.

Leadership & Portfolio Governance

• Lead the transition of approved opportunities into active development programmes.
• Drive portfolio planning, operational excellence, and continuous improvement initiatives.
• Support organisational strategy, capability development, succession planning, and long-range business planning as a member of the GDD Leadership Team.
• Lead and develop a team of senior technical professionals within a global matrix environment.

About Your Skills & Experience

We are seeking a strategic leader with a strong combination of technical expertise, commercial awareness and leadership capability.

Qualifications & Experience

• Bachelor's degree in Pharmaceutical Sciences, Biomedical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or a related discipline.
• Advanced degree (MSc, PhD and/or MBA) preferred.
• Extensive experience within the medical device, pharmaceutical, drug delivery, or combination product industry.
• Significant leadership experience within a regulated R&D environment.
• Proven experience leading portfolio strategy, technology evaluations, opportunity assessments, and pipeline development activities.
• Experience supporting licensing, acquisitions, partnerships, and strategic investment decisions.
• Strong understanding of combination product development, including design controls, risk management, usability engineering, verification and validation, and product lifecycle management.
• Expertise in drug delivery technologies such as autoinjectors, pen injectors, pre-filled syringes, inhalation devices, or related systems.
• Knowledge of relevant regulations and standards including ISO 13485, ISO 14971, FDA Quality System Regulations, and combination product requirements.
• Outstanding leadership, stakeholder management, communication, and influencing skills.
• Strong commercial acumen with experience developing business cases, budgets, forecasts, and investment recommendations.

At Viatris, we are dedicated to building a truly diverse, inclusive and authentic workplace, so if you’re excited about this role but your experience doesn’t fully align with every requirement, we still encourage you to apply. You may just be the right candidate for this or other roles.

Benefits at Viatris

At Viatris, we offer competitive salaries, benefits and an inclusive environment where you can use your experiences, perspectives and skills to help make an impact on the lives of others. Some of our benefits include the following on top of a competitive salary:

• Excellent career progression opportunities
• Work-life balance initiatives
• Bonus scheme
• Health insurance
• Pension

Diversity & Inclusion at Viatris

At Viatris, diversity and inclusion are essential to our mission. The diversity we foster in all aspects of our business can be one of our greatest strengths in redefining healthcare not as it is, but as it should be. If you would like to know more about what diversity, equity and inclusion means to us, please visit https://www.viatris.com/en/Careers/Diversity-and-Inclusion

Sustainability at Viatris

Corporate social responsibility is fundamental to the Viatris mission. We work to advance responsible and sustainable operations and leverage our collective expertise to empower people to live healthier at every stage of life, recognizing that our actions affect the stakeholders and communities we serve. To learn more about our efforts, please visit https://www.viatris.com/en/about-us/corporate-responsibility

At Viatris, we offer competitive salaries, benefits and an inclusive environment where you can use your experiences, perspectives and skills to help make an impact on the lives of others. 

Viatris is an Equal Opportunity Employer.