Strategy And Execution Lead

Summary

Join Biogen as the Strategy and Execution Lead (MLR Lead) for the Neuropsych Franchise, where you will be accountable for a high-quality and efficient content approval process. You will drive all operations for the Neuropsych brand/therapeutic area, partnering closely with Marketing and other stakeholders. This role involves managing the content approval process, ensuring timely and compliant approvals, and focusing on continuous improvement. You will prepare reports for Biogen executive leadership and collaborate with other pod leaders. The position requires strong leadership, collaboration, and communication skills within a pharmaceutical/biotech environment. This role also includes managing a team and developing training programs.

Requirements

• Minimum of 5 years pharmaceutical/biotech experience with 3+ years of promotional material review, or relevant pharma/biotech agency work experience
• Strong understanding of high quality promotional pharmaceutical content
• Strategic understanding of market trends, implications, and evolution of the content approval process
• Strong interpersonal skills with experience in conflict management and negotiation, as well as strong oral and written communication skills
• Ability to work with urgency and prioritize across multiple tasks required
• Demonstrated ability to influence without authority
• Demonstrated experience in developing and reporting on business metrics and KPIs required
• Prior experience with Veeva Vault PromoMats platform including metrics and business reporting required
• Bachelor’s Degree (BA/BS) from a four-year college or university

Responsibilities

• Manage the day-to-day leadership of the Neuropsych agile pod by partnering with Medical, Legal, Regulatory pod team members, Marketing, and other departments as needed to ensure that the Marketing Operations model results in high-quality, competitive, and compliant materials get to market efficiently
• Effectively collaborate with business partnership to ensure MLR execution and continued mutually beneficial relationship
• Responsible for capturing, reporting and analyzing business metrics and pod performance, identifying root causes of any process deficiencies, and recommending improvements to be shared and adopted across pod teams, where appropriate
• Partner with business stakeholders in tracking and managing the annual plan through quarterly forecasting, ensuring that any potential volume surges are proactively addressed and resourced appropriately and shifts in plans are communicated to all impacted functions
• Conduct frequent and ongoing collaboration with the Marketing teams to proactively plan and approve content timelines and track adherence to the approved plan, especially for key events such as NSM, POAs, congresses, etc
• Scan market and develop skills and expertise on emerging content review concepts and promotional tactics for assigned pod(s), inclusive of system refresh and relaunch (Veeva)
• Management of contracted MLR Coordinator to ensure the following tasks are performed properly agenda finalization for content review pod meetings, reconciliation of reviewer comments, chairing each live review meeting by leading discussion of the content, documentation of decision(s), publication of meeting minutes, and proactive outreach to the Head of the Marketing Operations with escalation requests
• Accountable for helping to develop and deliver of training programs for TA pod stakeholders and review teams, inclusive of agency partners

Preferred Qualifications

• Prior team leadership experience preferred; cross-functional team leadership preferred
• Preferred post-graduate degree that is relevant to the Biotech industry and / or Commercial / Marketing Operations

Benefits

• Medical, dental, life, long and short-term disability insurances
• Vacation
• End-of-year shutdown
• 401K participation and matching contributions
• Biogen’s LTI grants and other incentive programs