Senior Director, WW Medical Affairs Cell Therapy, Strategy and Operations

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In this role, the Senior Director, WW Cell Therapy Medical Affairs, Strategy and Operations: is responsible for the operational oversight and planning  across  the  WW Medical Affairs Cell therapy TA , including establishing processes and guiding ways of working principle development and establishment within medical and with cross-functional partners, metric development, brand and medical planning, budget planning, congress planning, workforce planning, and planning and execution of special projects.  The Medical Affairs Strategy and Operations lead is responsible for partnering with colleagues in Medical Affairs or in other functions to lead or support Strategic Planning responsibilities. There is a critical need in this complex ecosystem of therapeutic assets and disease areas to bring rigorous strategy and execution to portfolio optimization, evidence generation across the portfolio and to ensure effective, repeatable launches that will benefit patients.   

Responsibilities will include, but are not limited to, the following:

• This key role will be the strategic and operational partner to the VP and Head, WW Medical Cell Therapy.  As such, it is critical that they are able to effectively and efficiently collaborate with/advise both their operating partner and other leaders in the organization to evaluate, assess, design, enhance and develop long and short-term strategies for medical affairs operations (1-5 years).  The role has extremely broad scope and complexity, needing to influence strategy execution and medical launch excellence across a very broad portfolio in the US, Major Markets and InterContinental. 

• Working with Asset Teams to establish and/or review on a regular basis the Integrated Evidence Plans (IEPs) development for each asset for life cycle management in collaboration with key cross-functional stakeholders.   Serve as counterpart to the Head of MEG Hematology and Cell Therapy to oversee the entire MEG BOW with an estimated annula budget of ~$50 M will be a ket deliverable working with Matrix partners to ensure this is domne to time Cost and Quality

• The successful candidate will also coordinate portfolio management & planning, provide guidance to stakeholders regarding budget trends, P&L guidance, implications and identify opportunities and solutions. As such, it is critical that candidates have a demonstrated track record of execution medical affairs strategic planning and execution at local, regional and global level and having been able to develop and engage a matrix team in order to identify opportunities and hurdles and propose appropriate solutions including proposals for resource allocation with the right skills to appropriate projects/initiatives.

• Extensive experience translating strategy to actionable projects and initiatives is also required of the candidate

• Working with Medical Affairs IT to evaluate hardware and software packages for Global  Medical Affairs, evaluating the budget impact, compatibility with existing systems, resource needs for implementation. 

• Working with procurement to find cost-efficient, high quality verndor soutions to support tactical implementation.

• In collaboration with Finance, establish budgets for  Medical Affairs (includes MEG budgets). Work with MEH and Finance to forecast MEG cost recognition and develop risk-adjustment model to allow better forecasting of committed spending. 

• Work closely with HR in the areas of recruitment, workforce planning, contingent workforce resource planning, succession planning, organizational structure, and other HR-related matters.

• Work closely with Head WW Cell Therapy Medical, to attract the best talent for open positions. 

• Track against workforce plans and budget performance against plans mont