Executive Director, Product Strategy Lead, Huntington’s Disease

Summary

This position will be located at either the Cambridge, MA site or the East Hanover, NJ site and will not have the ability to be located remotely.

The Executive Director, Product Strategy Lead (PSL) will lead the creation, implementation, orchestration and measurement of the integrated product strategies for an indication of a launch product within Neuroscience in the US, under the leadership of a General Manager in Neuroscience. This individual will contribute to the key decision making for maximizing the impact of the product under their remit while actively and appropriately managing resource allocation across multiple teams, and multiple functions. This will be done in consultation with various teams and functions, including: Marketing, Sales, Novartis Patient Support, Market Access, Insights and Decision Science and Medical about their respective strategies, plans and proposed resourcing. This leader will impact the Novartis legacy in his/her responsibility for accelerating impact in the product/while leading through a business-critical transformation.

This role will contribute to the management of the full P&L for the assigned product, under the final leadership of the General Manager for the Product or Portfolio and will partner closely with functional heads for decision-making of resource allocation to deliver the most accelerated impact for the product.

This leader will be a key member of the General Manager team in the Integrated Product Strategy Organization and is expected to demonstrate accountability for the assigned product or indication and responsibility for broader enterprise leadership in their decisions and engagement across the US Pharma organization.

This leader has a passion for transformational enterprise leadership, decisive strategy in service of delivering higher impact for patients, customers, healthcare systems with higher quality, speed and agility. Additionally, this leader will be responsible for ensuring that customer engagement and relationship building are factored into the product/ indications’ strategic approach and performance metrics to optimize the approach and identify potential areas of risk.

About the Role

Key Responsibilities:

• Define critical strategies to enable launch success
• Define critical and specific integrated priorities and key impact measures for Huntington’s Disease in consultation with the cross-functional product strategy team under the final leadership of the General Manager.
• Integrate, lead, measure and take decisive action against the KPIs on the integrated product strategy to raise impact for product
• Significant contribution to the P&L of a product/indication while enabling partner functions to manage day-to-day resource management
• Significant contribution to the topline results as an outcome of strategic choices
• Significant contribution to the integrated cross-functional resource allocation to deliver highest impact

• Establish and coordinate management of KPI’s across all functions accountable for the integrated product strategy
• Appropriately partner with functional heads in trade-off decisions
• Partner with other general managers and members of the Product Strategy team for enterprise decisions, including potential trade-offs between products/indications

Essential Requirements:

Education (minimum/desirable):

Bachelor’s Degree, preferred MBA

• 10+ years in pharmaceutical, biotech, healthcare, or healthcare consulting industry inclusive of at least 2 different types of cross-functional roles/experience
• 3+ years of direct responsibility for large budget management inclusive of owning key product trade-off decisions
• 3+ years leading and translating an integrated product strategy requiring global and local alignment
• US Market, launch and product lifecycle stages experience, OR, General Manager experience in other countries
• Rare disease launch or in-line experience

Desirable Requirements:

• Neuroscience experience
• US experience strongly preferred
• Global or other country / region experience (Projects or full time roles or temporary roles for 6 months or more)

The pay range for this position at commencement of employment is expected to be between: $214,900.00 and $399,100.00/year; however, while salary ranges are effective from 1/1/25 through 12/31/25, fluctuations in the job market may necessitate adjustments to pay ranges during this period. Further, final pay determinations will depend on various factors, including, but not limited to geographical location, experience level, knowledge, skills, and abilities. The total compensation package for this position may also include other elements, including a sign-on bonus, restricted stock units, and discretionary awards in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits (including 401(k) eligibility and various paid time off benefits, such as vacation, sick time, and parental leave), dependent on the position offered. Details of participation in these benefit plans will be provided if an employee receives an offer of employment. If hired, employee will be in an “at-will position” and the Company reserves the right to modify base salary (as well as any other discretionary payment or compensation program) at any time, including for reasons related to individual performance, Company or individual department/team performance, and market factors.

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