Vice President, Global Program Head Healthcare

 

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Ready to explore, break barriers, and discover more? We know you’ve got big plans – so do we! Our colleagues across the globe love innovating with science and technology to enrich people’s lives with our solutions in Healthcare, Life Science, and Electronics. Together, we dream big and are passionate about caring for our rich mix of people, customers, patients, and planet. That's why we are always looking for curious minds that see themselves imagining the unimaginable with us.  

 

United As One for Patients, our purpose in Healthcare is to help create, improve and prolong lives. We develop medicines, intelligent devices and innovative technologies in therapeutic areas such as Oncology, Neurology and Fertility. Our teams work together across 6 continents with passion and relentless curiosity in order to help patients at every stage of life. Joining our Healthcare team is becoming part of a diverse, inclusive and flexible working culture, presenting great opportunities for personal development and career advancement across the globe.

 

This role does not offer sponsorship for work authorization. External applicants must be eligible to work in the US. 

 

Your role:

The Executive Director/Vice President, Global Program Head Oncology (GPH) serves as the primary architect and owner of the end-to-end lifecycle for complex internal or partnered global development programs. Tasked with leading high-performing, multidisciplinary Global Program Teams (GPTs), the GPH drives the strategy to maximize positive impact to both patients and asset value. As a key business and scientific ambassador, the GPH will navigate internal/alliance governance and lead cross-functional collaboration to ensure the seamless delivery of program milestones.

You will assume sole and final accountability for the program’s strategic integrity, execution, and financial risk profile. As the primary authority responsible for presenting to the Portfolio Governance Committee and Investment Board, the GPH is directly responsible for the asset’s trajectory and fiscal health. This includes the mandate to ensure that strategic or investment decisions prioritize both accelerated delivery and uncompromising asset value and quality. The GPH is personally accountable for maximizing the competitive value and ROI of every assigned asset.

Your will:

• Define a comprehensive program vision and strategy, integrating cross-functional plans across multiple assets and indications to maximize long-term value and growth.
• Drive external engagement and advocacy efforts by leveraging strong scientific evidence to cultivate long-term relationships with thought leaders, scientific societies, and HTA bodies.
• Proactively adapt program strategies to shifting internal and external trends, making swift, data-driven adjustments to mitigate risk and seize emerging opportunities.
• Drive organizational cohesion by taking ownership of the end-to-end alignment of program strategy, eliminating functional silos and regional discrepancies to ensure seamless global execution.
• Drive organizational alignment by collaborating across functions to turn agreed-upon strategies into decisive action.
• Serve as the definitive internal authority and primary liaison for assigned programs, taking full ownership of information accuracy and consistency across the organization.
• Serve as the final authority on program messaging, ensuring consistent and compliant communication across all stakeholder channels.
• Assume full accountability for program financial health, managing budget execution and investment decisions in alignment with the program contract.
• Lead with impact by building elite cross-functional teams and modeling the high-impact behaviors required to meet organizational goals.
• Ability to look across the entire development pipeline, not limiting focus to a single asset.

 

Who you are

Mandatory qualifications

• Advanced degree in a relevant scientific discipline; doctoral level degree (MD, PhD, PharmD) required.
• An established leader with at least 10 years of drug development experience, including a track record of successfully guiding global program teams toward clinical and commercial milestones.
• Offers deep subject-matter expertise across several drug development pillars, or a comprehensive understanding of the full lifecycle—from research and pre-clinical stages through to manufacturing, regulatory approval, and commercialization. 
• Extensive TA relevant knowledge including specific experience developing pharmace