Senior Director, Portfolio Management & New Product Planning

REGENXBIO is an exceptional place to work. You'll have the opportunity to collaborate with some of the best and the brightest people, touch amazing science, and be a part of extraordinary plans. Our core values: Trust, Accountability, Perseverance, and Innovation drive everything we do. We aim to bring these values to life every day with all that we do, and we believe that what we do matter - to patients, to their families, and to their communities.

As Senior Director, you will report to the SVP of Commercial Strategy and Operations and will be responsible for the early commercial strategy, opportunity assessment and competitive analysis to support emerging gene therapies, and technologies. You will be responsible for providing commercial leadership on projects from pre-clinical through proof of concept and early new product planning with a clear line of sight towards commercialization and will partner closely with R&D, Corporate Development, Business Development, and other relevant cross functional leaders/teams on therapeutic area strategy and to provide commercial assessments of external opportunities, and/or to help support discussion on applying REGENXBIO technologies to potential external partnerships. Further, you will work closely with R&D, Program Management, Clinical Development, Business Development, Medical and commercial functions to drive the early strategic analysis and approach to REGENXBIO programs. This is an opportunity to help shape the strategy to deliver potentially transformational care to patients.

• Lead commercial assessments of potential therapeutic targets and programs; provides analyses and decision making frameworks to guide the company’s portfolio activities in maximizing NAV technology and advancing subsequent gene therapy pipeline
• Lead gene therapy opportunity assessments to inform business development, target selection, and pipeline investment decisions; works with R&D, clinical, program management, finance, IP/legal and commercial colleagues to articulate feasibility and attractiveness-based business cases to inform portfolio prioritization; responsible for defining market potential and ROI of potential portfolio investment areas; Defines portfolio evolution timelines and trade offs
• Conduct and refine market assessments to gain a clear understanding of current and future unmet needs and market dynamics
• Lead the development of target product profiles for early stage R&D programs, based on thorough understanding of market dynamics and potential future trends
• Understand and communicate requirements for registration, reimbursement, genetic diagnosis and differentiation required for the successful commercialization of new REGENXBIO products
• Translate key insights from scientific experts (internal R&D colleagues and external opinion leaders) into clear, actionable strategies for the franchise/s
• Leads competitive intelligence and business intelligence activities
• Partner with commercial operations and manufacturing to develop integrated forecasts and market potential assessments
• Contribute to the long-term commercial strategy and ensure early R&D activities are in-line with global franchise strategies
• Coordinate and ensure long term success of gene therapy global launches for existing and new products/indications
• Responsible for market research activities and managing qualitative and quantitative market research vendor relationships
• Provides input to the commercial/ launch planning team on the infrastructure aspects most critical for success of subsequent pipeline assets beyond lead products
• Travel up to 50% of the time is required
• It is imperative that REGENXBIO employees embody our core values by working collaboratively, building strong relationships and using clear communication to meet shared objectives.

We set our employees up for success. To be successful in this role and help us achieve our goals, we are looking for someone with the following skills and qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree (MBA preferred) with 10+ years of experience in biotech/pharma strategic roles with a rack record demonstrating accountability, sense of urgency and cross-functional leadership.
• Knowledge, experience and proven track record of using deep customer and market insight to deliver concise insights to R&D decisions and innovative patient and physician centric business solutions
• Strong qualitative and quantitative analytical, communication and project management skills to effectively translate ideas and insights into actionable plans
• Strong leadership abilities to influence and lead across a matrix environment
• Demonstrated ability to create clear global commercial strategies and work across functions to facilitate seamless execution
• Excellent organizational skills, sufficient to multi-task in an extremely fast-paced environment with changing priorities
• Excellent communication skills and ability to influence across multiple functions
• Experience in Gene Therapy, Ophthalmology, CNS and/or rare diseases preferred

By joining REGENXBIO, you will have the opportunity to be a part of a growing company and incredible team passionate about developing novel AAV gene therapy products to our patients.

We offer a comprehensive and competitive benefit plan which includes market-competitive salaries, an annual bonus program, education assistance, retirement plan with employer match, stock options at all levels, summer hours and more!

In addition, professional development is important to us. By joining our team, you’ll have the opportunity the be exposed to challenging projects and development resources to help you grow personally and professionally.