Senior Director, External Growth & Innovation

Biogen; Cambridge (MA); On-site; USD 234,000 - 322,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, Dental, Vision, & Life ins.

Fitness & Wellness programs

Disability insurance

Vacation and holidays

Sick time

Parental Leave

401(k) matching

Employee stock purchase plan

Tuition reimbursement

Employee Resource Groups

Job summary

Biogen in Cambridge, MA invites a visionary Senior Director to drive external growth and innovation across commercial platforms. You will shape strategic initiatives, gain cross-functional alignment, and implement AI-enabled capabilities to accelerate growth in our therapeutic areas.

You will partner with marketing, medical affairs, operations and leadership to deploy new technologies, scale high-impact solutions, and measure ROI, all while navigating market dynamics and payer considerations

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree; MBA preferred.
• 12+ years in healthcare/pharma/biotech or related consulting.
• Experience across healthcare commercial disciplines (marketing, access, strategy, business development, consulting).
• Deep understanding of healthcare ecosystems.
• Ability to drive change and operate through ambiguity.
• Proven ability to manage complex, cross-functional programs with external partners.
• Knowledge of AI/ML in healthcare, EHRs, and digital health tools.
• Familiarity with U.S. access and reimbursement dynamics.
• Experience designing scalable operating models with measurable ROI.
• Up to 5% travel expected.

Responsibilities

• Understand Biogen’s commercial strategy and growth drivers to identify opportunities.
• Develop and implement an innovation strategy aligned with Biogen’s mission and objectives.
• Identify and scale AI-enabled solutions to shorten diagnosis path.
• Re-architect how work gets done with AI, process redesign, and new operating models.
• Lead tech implementations and partnerships; build ROI-tracking methodologies.
• Engage external stakeholders to identify high-potential opportunities and partnerships.

Skills

Executive leadership

Cross-functional collaboration

Change management

Project management

Healthcare market knowledge

AI/ML in healthcare

EHR ecosystems

Digital health tools

Reimbursement & access

Education

Bachelor’s Degree

MBA preferred

Tools

EHR systems

Digital health tools

Job description

About This Role

The Senior Director, External Growth & Innovation will drive commercial innovations that create value for our business, patient communities and customers. This key leader will conceptualize, develop, gain organizational buy-in and implement new technologies—and help build advanced capabilities—for our therapeutic areas in collaboration with the North American Leadership. The role requires partnering across the commercial organization and navigating constructive debate, building trust, and creating alignment, all while remaining grounded in market dynamics. You are part of a small, agile team in a role that reports to the Vice President, Head of External Growth & Innovation.

About This Role

The Senior Director, External Growth & Innovation will drive commercial innovations that create value for our business, patient communities and customers. This key leader will conceptualize, develop, gain organizational buy-in and implement new technologies—and help build advanced capabilities—for our therapeutic areas in collaboration with the North American Leadership. The role requires partnering across the commercial organization and navigating constructive debate, building trust, and creating alignment, all while remaining grounded in market dynamics. You are part of a small, agile team in a role that reports to the Vice President, Head of External Growth & Innovation.

What You’ll Do

• Develop a deep understanding of Biogen’s commercial strategy and growth drivers. Leverage your commercial expertise to identify bold ideas, opportunities and new capabilities that keep Biogen at the forefront of our therapeutic areas.
• Develop and implement a comprehensive innovation strategy that aligns with Biogen’s mission, values, and business objectives and gain support across marketing, medical affairs, operations, legal, compliance and leadership.
• Identify, evaluate, and help scale AI-enabled solutions that our stakeholders that shorten the path from symptoms to diagnosis.
• Partner across functions to re-architect how work gets done—applying AI, process redesign, and new operating models—to sustain our growth and help automate support teams.
• Lead the implementation of new technologies and collaborations by helping franchises and functions assess, test, and scale new technologies and capabilities. Build measurement methodologies that track return on investment and annualized run-rate value and make the case to scale high-return solutions across therapeutic areas.
• Consistently scan and engage external stakeholders including technology companies, new models of care delivery and ecosystem catalysts to identify the highest-potential opportunities that will accelerate growth, forge new markets or address barriers in our therapeutic areas. You will build relationships with innovators, emerging companies and other potential partners to create a strong network.

Who You Are

You are a strategic executive with strong business acumen, focused on making an impact on patient communities and the growth of our organization. You work well in ambiguity and have a track-record of leading without authority to gain cross functional support. You have in-depth experience in the U.S. healthcare market—ideally with understanding of commercial organizations in biotech or pharma—and are fluent in the patient, healthcare provider and payer dynamics, which you leverage to assess and implement opportunities that scale. You have executive presence to advocate for your ideas. You are fluent in how AI, data platforms, and evolving access dynamics are reshaping commercial execution, and you can identify genuine, value-generating opportunities.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree, MBA preferred
• 12+ years of progressive healthcare/pharmaceutical/biotech experience and/or healthcare consulting experience preferred
• Breadth of experiences across healthcare commercial disciplines (e.g., marketing, market access, strategy, business development, management consulting) are an advantage
• Experience and deep understanding of healthcare ecosystems
• Ability to drive and lead through change and ambiguity
• Proven ability to project manage complex and innovative programs cross-functionally and with external partners
• Ideally, working knowledge of AI/ML applications in healthcare, EHR ecosystems, and/or digital health tools, with the judgment to assess technical feasibility and commercial impact.
• Familiarity with U.S. access and reimbursement dynamics affecting patient access.
• Experience designing and scaling operating model and process improvements with demonstrable ROI and measurable business outcomes; able to clearly articulate the impact of those initiatives beyond tool deployment.
• Up to 5% travel expected

Job Level: Management

Additional Information

The base compensation range for this role is: $234,000.00-$322,000.00
Base salary offered is determined through an analytical approach utilizing a combination of factors including, but not limited to, relevant skills & experience, job location, and internal equity.
Regular employees are eligible to receive both short term and long-term incentives, including cash bonus and equity incentive opportunities, designed to reward recent achievements and recognize your future potential based on individual, business unit and company performance.

Benefits

• Medical, Dental, Vision, & Life insurances
• Fitness & Wellness programs including a fitness reimbursement
• Short- and Long-Term Disability insurance
• A minimum of 15 days of paid vacation and an additional end-of-year shutdown time off (Dec 26-Dec 31)
• Up to 12 company paid holidays + 3 paid days off for Personal Significance
• 80 hours of sick time per calendar year
• Paid Maternity and Parental Leave benefit
• 401(k) program participation with company matched contributions
• Employee stock purchase plan
• Tuition reimbursement of up to $10,000 per calendar year
• Employee Resource Groups participation

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.