Executive Director, U.S. Brand Lead - Neurology (Rare Disease)

Deerfield, IL (Hybrid)

$263K/yr – $355K/yrDirector/ExecutiveFull time

Posted 22 hrs ago

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Own the U.S. commercial strategy and annual and long-range plans for UPLIZNA in gMG and NMOSD, and BKEMV, consistent with the cross-indication strategy and direction set by the General Manager.
  • Own the Neurology forecast and its commercial assumptions, with inputs and support from Forecasting, Data & Analytics, and Finance.
  • Own the Neurology and BKEMV budgets and allocate resources against approved priorities; recommend changes in investment to the General Manager as business needs evolve.
  • Deliver revenue and profitability objectives by identifying growth opportunities, addressing barriers, and making timely changes to strategy, execution, targeting, channel mix, and investment.
  • Lead development and execution of integrated brand plans across health care professional, patient and caregiver, digital and omnichannel, peer-to-peer, congress, field, access, and patient services channels.
  • Work closely with the Portfolio Strategy, Omnichannel and Thought Leader Liaison teams to drive integrated execution
  • Establish priorities, governance, decision rights, milestones, and accountability across the cross-functional brand team.
  • Collaborate with Sales Leadership and Training on field strategy, training, tools, messaging, and customer engagement resources; maintain a regular feedback loop between field and brand teams.
  • Oversee agency and vendor partners, including strategic direction, quality, resource use, and delivery of priority work.
  • Set objectives and performance measures and lead regular reviews of patient, customer, market, access, competitive, channel, and execution trends.

Requirements

  • Doctorate degree and 6 years of marketing and/or commercial experience; OR
  • Master's degree and 10 years of marketing and/or commercial experience; OR
  • Bachelor's degree and 12 years of marketing and/or commercial experience; AND
  • 6 years of managerial experience directly managing people and/or leadership experience leading teams, projects, programs, or directing the allocation of resources

Preferred

  • Progressive leadership experience in U.S. biopharmaceutical marketing, including accountability for an inline or recently launched brand in a competitive specialty market
  • Rare disease and/or neurology experience; experience in gMG, NMOSD, neuroimmunology, infusion-based therapies, or high-value biologics
  • Success accelerating post-launch growth and translating performance insights into business results
  • Commercial experience across health care professional and patient marketing, omnichannel engagement, field execution, market access, patient services, forecasting, analytics, and financial management
  • Experience owning brand budgets and forecasts, setting performance measures, prioritizing investments, and communicating business performance to senior leadership
  • Understanding of the U.S. payer, reimbursement, specialty distribution, buy-and-bill, and site-of-care environment relevant to rare disease therapies.
  • Track-record of building high-performing teams and creating strong team culture
  • Biosimilar commercialization experience or the ability to lead across distinct business models and markets
  • Experience influencing senior stakeholders in a matrixed organization.
  • Experience navigating medical, legal, regulatory, and compliance review processes

Benefits

  • Comprehensive employee benefits package, including a Retirement and Savings Plan with generous company contributions, group medical, dental and vision coverage, life and disability insurance, and flexible spending accounts.
  • A discretionary annual bonus program, or for field sales representatives, a sales-based incentive plan
  • Stock-based long-term incentives
  • Award-winning time-off plans and bi-annual company-wide shutdowns
  • Flexible work models where possible. Refer to the Work Location Type in the job posting to see if this applies.

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