Senior Director, Commercial Strategy and Operations

Job Description

The Senior Director of Commercial Strategy & Operations is responsible for ensuring the Biogen North America (BNA) Organization is best positioned to deliver on its business objectives by establishing clear strategic priorities, driving execution effectiveness, and spearheading innovation across the organization.  This role will work closely with the office of the President of North America and is empowered to optimize how the US Organization operates through the identification and prioritization of key initiatives in the areas of strategy, innovation, processes, systems, and tools.  This role will report to the Head of Strategic Operations and Portfolio Innovations for North America.  
This role will lead through influence and form strong and collaborative partnerships with key stakeholders to not only ensure organization alignment on key priorities but also ensure BNA Organization delivers on organizational goals.  This role will lead and drive complex cross-functional teams, and as necessary, provide matrixed leadership to the broader US Organization. Qualified candidates will be high performing and high potential Commercial leaders with a solid track record in stakeholder management, innovative commercial strategy, and delivering compelling results within a pharma commercial context.

Key Areas of Responsibilities: 
BNA Strategy Development
•    Identifies and drives development and implementation of strategic priorities for BNA through cross-functional efforts
•    Lead development of 5-year BNA strategy and annual BNA strategy refresh through close partnership with BNA Leadership Team (NALT)
•    Ensure coordination of strategic initiatives across BNA to leverage synergies, identify interdependencies and avoid duplication of efforts
•    Drive key strategic initiatives across BNA and provide thought leadership and advice to guide these projects to ensure progress and impact are realized
•    Support Head of Strategic Operations and Portfolio Innovations and Office of the President of BNA in preparation for Board and EC-level business reviews and communications
Operations & Commercial Excellence
•    Responsible for all aspects of BNA Governance operations, including supporting BNA Leadership Team and BNA Operating Committee
•    Drive optimization and continuous improvement on BNA annual strategic planning cycle (including AOP, ICP) in partnership with FP&A and business franchises.
•    Collaborate with members of the NALT to identify strategic and operational opportunities across BNA Org to enhance BNA business
•    Identify the opportunities to improve business practices and processes to maximize resources and achieve operational excellence across BNA
•    Develops and implements processes for capturing, cataloging, analyzing and disseminating key lessons to be learned from initiatives, with a view toward helping propagate best practices throughout the enterprise
New Products Commercialization and Integration Support 
•    Liaise with Global PDCs and lead new products commercialization for BNA for pipeline and/or Business Development assets
•    Assess and lead the build-out of new product commercialization capabilities in North America, in collaboration with all key functions across the organization
•    Manage and oversee all late-stage BNA pipeline programs to ensure BNA partnership with Global PDCs and initiate BNA preparations for launch readiness via BNA Launch Operations Teams (LOT)
•    Supports integration of potential M&A deals into BNA business

Qualifications

Required Skills
•    12+ years of experience leading large/complex programs and initiatives 
•    Commercial functional knowledge
•    Ability to lead and influence in the matrix
•    Excellent interpersonal skills/highly collaborative
•    Understands Biogen culture, organizational structure, and processes
•    Ability to cultivate strong internal/external networks
•    Strong operational skills; project/timeline management capabilities
•    Effective stakeholder management and problem-solving skills
•    Pharma Commercial Experience 
•    Bachelor’s degree required; Masters/MBA or other advanced educational achievement highly preferred.

Preferred Skills
•    Previous Strategy Consulting in Pharma 

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Additional Information

Why Biogen?

Our mission to find therapies for neurological and rare diseases is a unique focus within our industry and this shared purpose is what connects us as a team. We work together to overcome obstacles and to follow the science. We are resilient as we strive to make an impact on our patients’ lives and on changing the course of medicine. Toge