Senior Director, Biosimilars Strategy & Planning

Who we are

Together, we’re on a mission to make good health more affordable and accessible, to help millions around the world enjoy healthier lives. It’s a mission that bonds our people across nearly 60 countries and a rich, diverse variety of nationalities and backgrounds. Working here means working with the world’s leading manufacturer of generic medicines, and the proud producer of many of the products on the World Health Organization’s Essential Medicines List. Today, at least 200 million people around the world take one of our medicines every single day. An amazing number, but we’re always looking for new ways to continue making a difference, and new people to make a difference with.

The opportunity

Teva has made a commitment to be a leader in biosimilars. The position takes leadership over US inline and pipeline biosimilar brands, customer strategies for the entire portfolio and pipeline, pricing strategies, financial and planning processes, pipeline selection, and policy work. The position supports brand management on ongoing launches. The position is expected to drive efforts ensuring a sustainable and profitable biosimilars business at Teva. The Senior Director Strategy and Planning works with internal Teva colleagues, market access, trade and specialty pharmacy, sales, finance, forecasting and insights to manage inline biosimilars and prepare future biosimilar launches. 

 

This position is based in the Parsippany, NJ office.

How you’ll spend your day

Go-To-Market Strategy Leadership for Biosimilars

• Collaborates brand management to establish go-to-market models for launches focusing on customer specific strategies identifying and strategizing for future sources of business.
• Collaborates with customer facing teams’ leadership (including market access, GPO, trade, specialty pharmacy, and IDN) on an ongoing basis to facilitate brand strategy execution and reports learnings back to the wider biosimilars marketing team for strategic adjustments.
• Leads collaboration efforts across all commercial customer facing teams ensuring pricing strategy compliance to achieve short term and long-term financial objectives.
• Collaborates closely with market access teams on payer strategy and pull through.
• Collaborates with trade teams on specialty pharmacy strategy with focus on interchangeability.

 

Pricing Strategy Leadership for Biosimilars

• Develops pricing strategies for future biosimilar launches across medical and pharmacy benefit in collaboration with launch and pipeline leadership, market access and account management.
• Is an expert on customer economics and ensures relevant insights are incorporated into go-to-market strategies.
• Collaborates with finance and market access in regards to 340b with a strong understanding of the 340b space and ability to strategize around value maximization for biosimilars in the space.

 

Inline Portfolio Leadership for Biosimilars

• Leads inline brand management for TRUXIMA and HERZUMA, two oncology buy-and-bill biosimilars
• Collaborates on marketing plan and tactics with marketing operations for TRUXIMA and HERZUMA
• Accelerate the launch uptake of both SIMLANDI and SELARSDI as payers act against the innovator

 

Pipeline Portfolio Leadership for Biosimilars

• Leads pipeline management including bEylea, bProlia, bXgeva, bSimponi, bXolair and several undisclosed biosimilar targets.
• Collaborates on brand strategies with global on internal developments.
• Develops market insights, customer insights and competitive insights for all future biosimilar targets with focus on nearer term opportunities.

 

Biosimilar Planning efforts

• Leads financial planning processes (LRP, AOP, RF1-4) for the biosimilar portfolio

 

Other Strategic Responsibilities

• Collaborates with the matrix biosimilars marketing team as well as with the wider cross-functional team to deliver on set objectives.
• Supports market research to enable future launches and support inline products in collaboration with the insights team, analyzes market data and information and makes informed decisions.
• Leads Business Development assessments for future biosimilar products.
• Understands and stays up to date with biosimilar policy matters and supports Teva’s government affairs teams in driving policy changes as well as collaborates with other biosimilars marketing leaders incorporating key policy (e.g. IRA).
• Leads strategic projects on biosimilars.
• Aligns organizationally and individually with internal and external codes of conduct.
• Collaborates with Teva’s global biosimilars team on strategic matters.       

 

 

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