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Lead Early Commercial Strategy - Immuno Oncology

Reference Number: 3544
Location: NJ

Our client is a global pharmaceutical company.  They have asked us to assist them in their search for a Lead Early Commercial Strategy – Immuno Oncology. 

Major tasks and responsibilities will include:

  • Provides insights to global project teams and early project teams on external environment, including competitive landscape, payer/reimbursement requirements, unmet medical needs, and evolving treatment patterns.
  • Understands the drug development process and maintains sufficient R&D fluency to identify commercial implications of early development decisions.
  • Gathers relevant medical expert insights by arranging advisory boards.
  • Develops commercial forecasts; works with other new products colleagues to coordinate and collaborate on development of pipeline assets for patients with same tumor types.
  • Drives commercial considerations of biomarker identification and companion diagnostic development.
  • Establishes key messages for pipeline assets; collaborates with Scientific Communications colleagues to support publication planning.
  • Provides commercial feedback to impact formulation and packaging development decisions.
  • Develops educational tools for external audiences (e.g., compound cards, MOA summaries) and internal constituencies.
  • Champions generic name development and supports clinical trial naming/branding activities.
  • Develops initiatives to support clinical trial enrollment.
  • Serves as lead within early commercial strategy for business development & licensing projects.
  • Coordinates business development & licensing related workload with other early commercial strategy colleagues.
  • Works closely with business development & licensing colleagues and associated team members to develop and refine commercial assessments commensurate with the level of data available.
  • Assess the relevant therapeutic space, standard of care, competitive environment, and evolving treatment paradigm for the external asset.
  • Determines current payer environment and proposes likely pricing strategy.
  • Consults secondary market research and data sources and conducts primary research, as necessary.
  • Conducts due diligence evaluations.
  • Prepares and presents the Company’s commercial capabilities to potential partners.
  • Identifies synergies with in-house pipeline.
  • Engages with teams on option deals to update commercial evaluation when new data is available through triggered option.
  • Advises on optimal commercial deal structure; reviews collaboration contracts.

We seek candidates with the following qualifications:

  • Must have 5 – 8 years of pharmaceutical marketing experience, oncology preferred; with at least 2 years of experience with in-line brand responsibilities.
  • An advanced scientific degree (e.g., PhD, PharmD, MD) is preferred.
  • An MBA is preferred.
  • Requires compound evaluation experience with new products or major line extensions.
  • Must have experience managing complex projects and diverse project teams to achieve goals on time.
  • Requires superior analytical and quantitative skills, and strong communications skills, written, verbal and presentation.
  • Must have understanding of the drug development process, especially regarding opportunities for differentiation and value demonstration.
  • Must have a proven ability to work effectively in a highly matrixed environment.
  • Experience in more than one of the following roles in addition to marketing: strategic planning, business development, diagnostics, or sales is preferred.
  • Must have experience working in a global environment.

If interested, please email your resume as a Word attachment to us, reference 3544.  No calls or faxes, please. Include your daytime phone number and we will contact you confidentially or reply to your email.

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