Hybrid Therapeutic Area Strategy Head, CRM

at Kerr Dental

• Job title: Therapeutic Area Strategy Head, CRM
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Lead
• Salary: $288,400 - $535,600 per year
• Degree requirement: Postgraduate Degree
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Cambridge, United States

About the role

• Lead therapeutic area strategy for CRM portfolio development in innovative biopharma environment. Engage with C-suite, manage strategic insights, and grow therapeutic area opportunities.

Responsibilities

• Leads a therapeutic area focused team in the creation and ongoing update of a holistic and aligned Enterprise portfolio strategy
• Builds and maintains in-depth knowledge of the TA (early pipeline to commercial)
• Provides insight within key portfolio governance processes (diligence and external landscape mapping)
• Supports identification of growth accretive opportunities, indications, disease spaces and rejection of low value opportunities/projects
• Coaches, attracts, develops, and retains top talents; partners with P&O leadership to develop people strategy
• Plans, allocates, and manages TA strategy financial budget

Requirements

• Advanced degree or equivalent experience in life science/healthcare required
• Cardiologist training highly desirable
• Demonstrated cross‑functional global leadership experience is essential
• Minimum 10 years of pharmaceutical/biotech experience gained in banking, consulting, or biopharma, with exposure to drug development and ideally commercialization required
• Proven ability to operate effectively in a highly matrixed, fast paced environment
• Candidates with significant senior leadership experience — including Biotech CEOs and executives from investment banking or other Wall Street institutions are strongly preferred
• Ability to comfortably engage with the C-suite and mid-career associates to influence and challenge with excellent interpersonal and leadership skills
• Strong financial and business acumen with strong understanding of biopharma landscape; companies, assets and early technologies
• Strong strategic vision, superior leadership, excellent communication, consensus building, and well-developed influencing and negotiation skills
• Excellent conflict resolution skills to facilitate agreement and buy-in at the senior-most levels
• Experience leading and managing a team with a variety of insights from science to commercial and proven coaching and mentoring experience.

Benefits

• health, life and disability benefits
• 401(k) with company contribution and match
• generous time off package including vacation, personal days, holidays and other leaves
• performance-based cash incentive
• eligibility to be considered for annual equity awards