Associate Director, New Product Planning

Summary

Join Genesis Therapeutics' New Product Planning (NPP) team as an Associate Director and play a pivotal role in shaping the company's drug discovery and development program. This high-impact position requires a strong life sciences background, drug discovery familiarity, and business acumen. You will guide program strategy, support portfolio initiatives, drive cross-functional processes, and conduct market research. The role involves collaboration with C-suite executives, therapeutic area leads, and other teams. Based in San Diego or Burlingame, CA, with potential for a remote role, this position offers the opportunity to contribute significantly to the development of innovative AI-driven therapies.

Requirements

• A strong understanding of drug discovery, including typical workflows, experiments, and tools, as demonstrated through a combination of previous hands-on experience in a discovery organization, and a life sciences PhD
• Experience planning and executing commercial assessments based on primary and secondary research for pre-clinical and early clinical (P1-P2) assets
• The ability to digest complex biological concepts, and distill credible and clear recommendations to a broad set of senior stakeholders
• The ability to interpret clinical data and communicate key insights relevant to our internal programs
• Familiarity with life sciences industry trends in R&D and commercialization (e.g. emerging technologies and drug targets)
• PhD in a relevant Life Sciences discipline (e.g. biology, biochemistry / molecular biology, pharmacology, etc.)
• At least 6 years of professional experience, with 4 years in a New Product Planning / Marketing role within a pharmaceutical or biotech company, a biotech venture capital firm, or a strategy consulting firm that provides services to life sciences companies
• Experience with typical tools, data sources, and market research methods used in biopharma commercial planning
• Strong Excel modeling and Powerpoint skills
• Excellent communication, listening and strong presentation skills
• Ability to travel domestically and internationally, if required, approximately 10% of the time - potentially more if working remotely

Responsibilities

• Guide program strategy and decision-making at all stages of discovery and clinical development
• Support portfolio strategy and analytics initiatives to enable prioritization & resource allocation
• Drive cross-functional new target nomination process, ensuring a thorough evaluation of strategic, scientific, and commercial considerations
• Steward technical diligence of new targets through conducting literature reviews and moderating KOL interviews
• Proactively identify and pursue opportunities for providing commercial input to improve strategy and decision making
• Conduct primary and secondary research to assess the commercial attractiveness of new preclinical product opportunities including market sizing, target product profile development, and competitive assessment
• Maintain highly detailed tracking of preclinical and clinical competitive programs
• Sit on Genesis’ preclinical and early clinical stage development teams as the commercial representative and provide expert guidance to the team on commercial and market considerations
• Support the implementation and improvement of processes, capabilities, and templates to augment the NPP team’s impact, e.g. disease opportunity assessment templates, TPP templates, competitive tracking alerts, etc
• Provide commercial support to Business Development and Corporate Strategy initiatives
• Closely collaborate with our Program Management, Finance and FP&A teams to support detailed planning and budgeting

Preferred Qualifications

Exceptional candidates may be considered for a remote role