Senior Lifecycle Strategy Director – Biopharma

Neurocrine Biosciences; San Diego (CA); On-site; USD 227,000 - 398,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Retirement savings plan

Paid vacation

Holidays and personal days

Parental leave

Health benefits

Job summary

Neurocrine Biosciences seeks a strategic leader to own the lifecycle management for launched brands, integrating Commercial, Medical Affairs, Clinical Development, Regulatory Affairs, Market Access, HEOR, and Real-World Evidence.

You will partner with Commercial and Medical Affairs to align annual brand plans with multi-year lifecycle strategy, translate insights into priorities, and drive cross-functional execution.

Responsibilities

• Leads the development, alignment, and ongoing evolution of the integrated lifecycle strategy and long-range plan for launched and near-launch brands
• Serves as the senior matrix leader for the cross-functional Lifecycle Team, establishing the team’s vision, strategic context, priorities, decision framework, operating model, and measures of success
• Creates shared ownership of the total product strategy across functions while maintaining clarity regarding functional roles, responsibilities, deliverables, and decision rights
• Partners closely with Commercial and Medical Affairs leadership to connect annual brand and medical plans with the broader, multi-year lifecycle strategy
• Ensures lifecycle decisions incorporate relevant patient, caregiver, healthcare professional, payer, scientific, clinical, regulatory, competitive, market, operational, and financial insights.
• Identifies, evaluates, and prioritizes opportunities to maximize patient benefit and sustainable product value, which may include: New indications or patient populations, Label expansion opportunities, New formulations, dosing approaches, routes of administration, or delivery systems, Clinical, medical, health economic, and real-world evidence generation, Product differentiation and competitive response strategies, Market access and reimbursement opportunities, Patient identification, treatment initiation, adherence, or persistence initiatives
• Leads development of an integrated evidence strategy across Clinical Development, Medical Affairs, HEOR, Real-World Evidence, Market Access, and Commercial to address the evolving needs of patients, healthcare professionals, payers, health systems, and other stakeholders
• Brings commercial and medical perspectives into relevant clinical development, regulatory, evidence-generation, and product-development decisions while ensuring that activities remain consistent with applicable legal, regulatory, and compliance requirements
• Partners with Commercial Analytics, Forecasting, Finance, and functional leaders to develop business cases, evaluate strategic options, test key assumptions, assess value and risk, and recommend investment priorities
• Translates the lifecycle strategy into an actionable roadmap with clearly defined objectives, milestones, deliverables, dependencies, resource requirements, budgets, risks, and performance measures
• Monitors brand performance, the treatment landscape, competitor activity, scientific developments, stakeholder needs, policy changes, and other external factors that may affect the lifecycle strategy
• Maintains accountability for the quality, timeliness, and strategic coherence of integrated lifecycle recommendations and cross-functional deliverables
• Establishes effective governance, communication, and escalation pathways to ensure that material opportunities, risks, decisions, and changes are visible to appropriate senior leaders
• Communicates the lifecycle vision, priorities, progress, risks, and decisions clearly across functions and organizational levels, including executive leadership
• Anticipates and addresses misalignment, unclear ownership, competing priorities, and team performance challenges before they affect program delivery
• May lead, coach, and develop employees, contractors, program leaders, or project teams depending on organizational design
• Partners with functional leaders to assess resource and capability requirements and to ensure that appropriate expertise is engaged at the right time based on the needs and maturity of the program
• Influences without direct authority and develops trusted relationships across Commercial, Medical Affairs, Development, Regulatory, Market Access, Technical Operations, Finance, and other enterprise functions
• Focuses the team on the highest-impact activities and balances inclusive cross-functional input with decisive leadership and timely decision-making
• Leads the team in evaluating complex issues, developing scenarios, identifying strategic trade-offs, and preparing decision-ready recommendations for portfolio, executive, and other governance forums
• Ensures lifecycle planning and related activities are conducted in accordance with applicable laws, regulations, industry standards, and company policies and procedures
• Performs other duties as assigned

Job description

Neurocrine Biosciences seeks a strategic leader to own the lifecycle management for launched brands, integrating Commercial, Medical Affairs, Clinical Development, Regulatory Affairs, Market Access, HEOR, and Real-World Evidence.

You will partner with Commercial and Medical Affairs to align annual brand plans with multi-year lifecycle strategy, translate insights into priorities, and drive cross-functional execution.