Job Description

About This Role
The Associate Director, Corporate Strategy & New Businesses Integration 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.

• 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.

Qualifications

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.

Required Skills

• 10-12 years of experience in life sciences OR a minimum of 5+ years of experience in life sciences commercial, consulting, and/or strategy roles required.
• Strong understanding of science, technology, and industry dynamics (e.g., drug development, regulatory environment, and access/reimbursement) with the ability to quickly learn and adapt to new disease areas, market trends, and risks.
• Extensive experience in market landscape and asset opportunity assessments, including market sizing, value proposition and product profile development, competitive positioning analyses, and revenue/OpEx forecasting.
• Skilled at managing multiple parallel work streams in a matrixed organization while navigating ambiguity, complexity, and competing priorities to drive strategic decisions.
• Demonstrated track record in informing, shaping, and influencing strategic priorities and investment decisions, with the ability to think strategically, solve complex problems analytically, and deliver results with high attention to detail and a customer-centric mindset.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to provide clear, actionable recommendations and challenge the status quo when appropriate.

Preferred Skills
Adjacent functional experience in Marketing, Market Research, Decision Analytics, Forecasting, Business Development, Finance, and Market Access, etc. is strongly considered

Additional Information

Why Biogen?

We are a global team with a commitment to excellence, and a pioneering spirit. As a mid-sized biotechnology company, we provide the stability and resources of a well-established business while fostering an environment where individual contributions make a significant impact. Our team encompasses some of the most talented and passionate achievers who have unparalleled opportunities for learning, growth, and expanding their skills. Above all, we work together to deliver life-changing medicines, with every role playing a vital part in our mission. Caring Deeply. Achieving Excellence. Changing Lives.

At Biogen, we are committed to building on our culture of inclusion and belonging that reflects the communities where we operate and the patients we serve. We know that diverse backgrounds, cultures, and perspectives make us a stronger and more innovative company, and we are focused on building teams where every employee feels empowered and inspired. Read on to learn more about our DE&I efforts.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, marital status, race, color, national origin, ancestry, ethnicity, religion, age, veteran status, disability, genetic information or any other basis protected by federal, state or local law. Biogen is an E-Verify Employer in the United States.