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Teva Pharmaceuticals Sr Director, Biosimilars Strategy & Inline Management in Parsippany, New Jersey
Sr Director, Biosimilars Strategy & Inline Management
Date: Jun 7, 2024
Location:
Parsippany, United States, New Jersey, 07054
Company: Teva Pharmaceuticals
Job Id: 56424
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 is critical in helping to build and manage Teva’s biosimilar franchise. The position is responsible driving pricing and customer strategies across the inline, launches and pipeline in collaborations with the business leaders for launches and pipeline. The position leads the inline business, currently consisting of two established biosimilar brands TRUXIMA® and HERZUMA®.
Location: This is a hybrid role (3 days in office/week) based in Parsippany, NJ.
How you’ll spend your day
All areas of responsibility listed below are essential to the satisfactory performance of this position by any incumbents with reasonable accommodation if necessary. Any non-essential functions are assumed to be included in other related duties or assignments.
Go-To-Market Strategy Leadership for Biosimilars
Collaborates with launch and pipeline 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.
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
Applies strategies to establish long-term sustainability considering pricing, reimbursement, customer mix and 340b dynamics.
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/Supports 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.
Your experience and qualifications
Any equivalent combination of education, training and/or experience that fulfills the requirements of the position will be considered.
Education/Certification/Experience:
Bachelor’s degree required; Master’s degree preferred
minimum 10 years of pharmaceutical experience
minimum 7 years of pharmaceutical marketing experience or equivalent
Preferred Experience:
Experience in biosimilars as well as market access, both pharmacy and medical benefit, are required to succeed in the role.
Experience in oncology and buy-and-bill
Skills/Knowledge/Abilities:
Strong pharmaceutical industry and therapeutic area business acumen
Strong understanding of the medical and pharmacy benefit market access landscape
Strong project management skills and the ability to manage and coordinated projects with multiple internal stakeholders
Ability to cope with uncertainty and deliver innovative solutions to new problems
Ability to build solid cross-functional relationships and work with all levels within an organization
Self-starter with a “take charge” attitude and the ability to work with minimal direction
Comfortable working in a fast-paced changing environment with a certain level of ambiguity
Strong organizational skills and the ability to organize and manage multiple priorities
Innovative thinker with a desire for continuous learning
Able to draw insights from variety of sources, understands market and competition. Compiles relevant data from appropriate sources and performs analysis for the department. Synthesizes complex and diverse information, recognizes trends and/or interrelationship
Ability to meet objectives and deadlines, promote efficiency and effectiveness, and incorporate improvements and program return on investment (ROI)
Excellent verbal, written, organization and interpersonal skills required
Versed in MS Office tools including Word, PowerPoint, Excel and Outlook
TRAVEL REQUIREMENTS
- Approximately 30% domestic travel throughout the US.
PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS:
Occasional:
- Sitting for extended periods of time at work station or mobile equipment.
Visual Acuity:
- Perform activities such as computer work, preparing and analyzing data, and extensive reading.
WORKING ENVIRONMENT
The majority of work will be conducted in the Home Office environment.
Travel is required to engage with customers, attend medical congress and other business related meetings.
May be required to wear personal protective equipment (PPE) as needed on site visits (i.e. safety glasses, hearing protection, gloves, etc.).
Enjoy a more rewarding choice
We offer a competitive benefits package, including Medical, Dental, Vision, and Prescription coverage starting on the first day. We also offer Disability and Life Insurance, Paid Time Off, 13 paid Holidays, 6% match on the 401(k), Employee Stock Purchase Plan, and Tuition Assistance.
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