Associate Director

Job Description

About This Role

Corporate Strategy & New Businesses contributes to defining, prioritizing, evaluating, and pursuing strategic growth and value creating opportunities for Biogen. This role exposes the individual to cross-functional colleagues across the organization and requires strong collaboration and partnership in the assessment of both internal and external investment opportunities. You will help shape multi-faceted disease area strategies including exploration into new areas for growth. You will support and lead market landscape and asset-specific evaluations with an emphasis on objectivity. You will contribute to business case development to inform investment recommendations to senior decision makers. You will operate with entrepreneurial spirit and urgency to positively influence Biogen's ability to deliver new medicines to individuals across the globe afflicted by some of the most complex and challenging diseases.

What You'll Do

Lead and support strategic fit and commercial assessments, including scenario analyses, to inform investment case for prioritized growth opportunities

Conduct market and competitive landscape research and analysis to understand customer unmet needs and product positioning opportunities for new therapies, and translate into actionable business insights

Actively identify, track, and assess external growth opportunities in collaboration with Search & Evaluation, Business Development and other cross-functional partners

Influence and drive alignment with key cross-functional stakeholders across the value chain (i.e., R&D, PO&T, Medical, Value & Access, etc.) to bring sound business cases and investment recommendations forward to senior management

Support corporate strategic planning and portfolio optimization process by providing required input and assessments, and developing content and presentations for senior management and Executive Committee

Contribute to building a strong team and organizational culture through actions and behaviors consistent with Biogen's culture essentials: Pioneer, Think Broadly, Drive Results, Ethical, Inclusive

Who You Are

You are a self-motivated team-player with demonstrated ability to excel in a fast-paced, collaborative environment. You are intellectually curious and results-driven with a passion for winning. You operate with a focus on balancing robustness with efficiency and with appropriate autonomy and resourcefulness. You are comfortable working across several workstreams running in parallel and a practitioner of active prioritization. You excel in communication and building trust and credibility at all levels of the organization. You act with unparalleled ethics and integrity consistent with company values.