Tumour Portfolio Director, OBU Medical Affairs

• Tumor Portfolio Strategy: Partner with the GU/GYN Franchise Head to execute a cohesive tumor strategy across indications, enabling seamless global and local delivery.

• Budget and Workforce Planning: Lead forecasting, phasing and prioritization for the franchise, aligning resources to strategic goals across the planning cycle.

• Evidence and Launch Planning: Orchestrate core deliverables including Medical Plans, Evidence Generation plans, study proposals, launch plans, congress plans and scientific exchange plans.

• Portfolio Visibility: Create and maintain dashboards that track progress against scorecard objectives, enabling data-driven decisions.

• Team Leadership: Manage, train and develop a small team of Indication Project Managers; assign responsibilities, build trust and mentor for high performance.

• Medical Implementation Enablement: Ensure Medical Implementation Teams operate efficiently and stay connected with Integrated Business Teams.

• Medical Standards and Compliance: Drive adoption of medical standards to ensure compliant, consistent operations.

• Portfolio Governance: Lead agenda-driven meetings with GU/GYN portfolio leadership, shaping agendas, capturing decisions and tracking actions to closure.

• Executive Communications: Coordinate senior leadership presentations on key topics and initiatives, spotlighting progress, risks and decisions needed.

• Continuous Improvement: Identify and embed best practices to simplify processes and accelerate delivery.

• Enterprise Change Leadership: Lead workstreams that drive improvements and change across broader medical and enterprise teams.

• Bachelor’s degree in business or life science

• Minimum of 7 years experience in pharmaceutical industry or regulated medical products industry

• Minimum of 3 years experience in Medical Affairs, Commercial, and R&D organizations (Global, regional, or local)

• Minimum of 3 years demonstrated project management experience in a matrix environment

• Experience working with senior stakeholders

• Comprehensive understanding of the development and commercialisation of pharmaceutical products

• Experience of successful influencing cross functionally, cross-culturally and cross-brands

• Experience of effective working in a multi-cultural, matrixed environment

• Experience working in a global setting, managing stakeholders within different time zones

• Experience preparing and/or delivering presentations to executive leadership

• Strong leadership, organizational, and communication skills

• Skilled in change management including process development and implementation, people development, organizational effectiveness, and communication

• Able to deliver high quality work outputs despite ambiguity or ever-changing environment

• Delivery focus with an ability to oversee and manage multiple project deliverables in very short timelines

• Interpersonal skills with an ability to display a variety of leadership styles dependent upon the situation

• Evidence of the ability to pull together diverse teams over whom there is no line management responsibility in a matrix environment (ability to influence and drive for results)

• Demonstrated knowledge and very wide understanding of global business context

• An excellent communicator; evidence of strong independence and innovative seeker of strategic solutions; forward looking

• Strong leadership attributes to clarify strategic direction, generate commitment, balance short and long-term needs, resolve differences constructively, and reinforce expectations

• People management experience preferred

• Graduate level degree in sciences or business

• Six Sigma Medical/Process Excellence and/or Project Management/PMP/FPX certification

• Depth of understanding of medical, scientific and/or commercial pharmaceutical marketplace of Oncology

When we put unexpected teams in the same room, we unleash bold thinking with the power to inspire life-changing medicines. In-person working gives us the platform we need to connect, work at pace and challenge perceptions. That's why we work, on average, a minimum of three days per week from the office. But that doesn't mean we're not flexible. We balance the expectation of being in the office while respecting individual flexibility. Join us in our unique and ambitious world.