Data Generation & Patient Services Lead

Biogen; Baar; On-site; CHF 250,000 - 350,000; Full time

Job summary

Biogen is seeking a Data Generation & Patient Services Lead to define and execute the Intercontinental (BIR) medical evidence-generation and patient services strategies across therapeutic areas. You will lead regional programs including real-world evidence, registries, outcomes research, and clinical trials, ensuring alignment across BIR affiliates and global functions.

You will translate evidence needs into integrated plans, address unmet patient needs, and partner with Global Medical Affairs,

Qualifications

• MD/PhD/PharmD or Life Sciences degree required.
• 12+ years in pharma/biotech with leadership.
• Experience in multinational evidence-generation strategies.
• Strong knowledge of health outcomes research and HTA.
• Fluency in English and MS Office.

Responsibilities

• Drive intercontinental data-generation and patient services strategy.
• Lead regional evidence-generation programs incl. real-world data and trials.
• Build governance for regional research investments and budgets.
• Collaborate with Global Medical Affairs and Country Medical teams.
• Establish relationships with KOLs and research networks.

Skills

MD/PhD/PharmD or Life Sciences

12+ yrs exp

Medical Affairs leadership

Evidence generation

HTA knowledge

Market access

Lifecycle management

Global/regional matrix

Strategic thinking

English fluency

MS Office/PM tools

Education

MD/PhD/PharmD or Life Sciences degree

Tools

MS Project

Job description

About This Role

As the Data Generation & Patient Services Lead, you will define and execute the Intercontinental (BIR) medical evidence-generation and patient services strategies across current and future therapeutic areas. You will lead regional evidence-generation programs, including real-world evidence, registries, outcomes research, investigator collaborations, and clinical trials, while ensuring alignment across BIR affiliates and global functions.

About This Role

As the Data Generation & Patient Services Lead, you will define and execute the Intercontinental (BIR) medical evidence-generation and patient services strategies across current and future therapeutic areas. You will lead regional evidence-generation programs, including real-world evidence, registries, outcomes research, investigator collaborations, and clinical trials, while ensuring alignment across BIR affiliates and global functions.

You will identify evidence gaps and challenges across the patient journey, ensuring that regional HTA, reimbursement, market access, regulatory, and clinical adoption requirements are incorporated into global development and launch strategies. You will also shape patient services strategies that address clear unmet needs and deliver meaningful value to patients throughout their disease journey. As a strategic partner to Global Medical Affairs, Clinical Development, Value & Access, and Country Medical teams, you will influence asset development, evidence priorities, pipeline readiness, and lifecycle management across BIR.

What You’ll Do

• Drive the BIR data-generation strategy by partnering with Country Medical teams and cross-functional partners to anticipate evidence needs and develop integrated evidence plans supporting value demonstration, HTA/JCA requirements, market access, and regional regulatory expectations.
• Translate emerging reimbursement, healthcare policy, and stakeholder requirements into evidence-generation, development, and launch strategies.
• Lead pipeline medical readiness for priority assets and indications from an evidence-generation and patient services perspective, ensuring BIR requirements are incorporated into global development, evidence-generation, and launch strategies.
• Define and advance the BIR patient services strategy, ensuring programs address clear unmet medical needs and deliver meaningful value across the patient journey.
• Drive affiliate pipeline readiness, regional collaboration, and capability building through coordinated planning, launch readiness assessments, best-practice sharing, and development of common evidence-generation and patient services solutions across BIR.
• Establish governance and oversight for regional research investments and evidence-generation programs, ensuring execution excellence, milestone achievement, budget management, and impact measurement.
• Identify evidence gaps across therapeutic areas and the patient journey and translate them into regional evidence priorities and recommendations for global development and lifecycle management.
• Build and maintain strategic relationships with Key Opinion Leaders, academic institutions, scientific societies, and research networks to advance scientific leadership and innovation.
• Provide oversight of BIR Medical strategic priorities and execution across therapeutic areas in Evidence Generation and Patient Services, monitoring progress against objectives and driving alignment across affiliates and cross-functional stakeholders.

Who You Are

You are a strategic Medical Affairs leader with strong scientific and clinical expertise and an enterprise mindset. You can translate complex scientific insights, evidence needs, and healthcare-system requirements into actionable strategies that support development, patient access, launch readiness, and lifecycle management.

You are highly effective in global matrix organizations and can influence without formal authority, connecting country, regional, and global stakeholders around shared priorities. You communicate with credibility across different audiences, including senior executives, external experts, scientific societies, and cross-functional partners.

You combine strong analytical and strategic problem-solving capabilities with the ability to lead complex, cross-functional initiatives. You are highly organized, embrace innovation and digital solutions, and actively seek modern approaches to evidence generation and patient services that can improve execution and patient outcomes.

Required Skills

• MD, PhD, PharmD, or another advanced degree in Life Sciences required.
• 12+ years of pharmaceutical, biotechnology, or healthcare industry experience.
• Significant leadership experience in Medical Affairs, Medical Research, Evidence Generation, or related functions.
• Proven experience developing and executing multinational evidence-generation strategies.
• Strong knowledge of Medical Affairs research, Health Outcomes Research, and Health Technology Assessment.
• Strong understanding of healthcare systems, reimbursement, market access, and stakeholder environments across the Intercontinental region.
• Experience supporting pipeline readiness, launch excellence, and lifecycle management across multiple assets and/or therapeutic areas.
• Demonstrated success working within global and regional matrix organizations and influencing without formal authority.
• Strong strategic thinking, analytical problem-solving, stakeholder engagement, project management, and cross-functional leadership skills.
• Fluency in English and strong proficiency with Microsoft Office and project management tools.

Job Level: Management

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 Biogen.

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.