Director, Therapeutic Area Strategy, CRM

Role: Strategy Director for the Cardio, Renal, and Metabolic (CRM) Therapeutic Area, focusing on developing and evolving a holistic TA strategy, providing early-phase commercial insights, and guiding pipeline development, licensing, and acquisition activities. Responsibilities include integrating external benchmarking and insights to support sustainable growth, analyzing industry and disease-specific data to derive competitive advantages, and delivering strategic insights to R&D project teams, especially for early-phase programs with US in-market experience. The role also involves supporting enterprise alignment across research, development, strategy, and commercial functions. Requirements: Bachelor's degree; 5-7 years of pharma or medical device industry experience in R&D or commercial roles, with expertise in strategy development, asset shaping, and evaluating new product opportunities via M&A or BD&L; deep knowledge in CRM or similar therapeutic areas; highly agile to support multiple strategies and programs; recent US in-market experience post-2015. Preferred qualifications include an advanced degree (PhD, MD, MBA) and background in healthcare/biotech. High-Value: focus on cardiovascular, renal, and metabolic diseases; early-phase development insights; US market experience; cross-functional collaboration; hybrid work model in Basel or Cambridge.