Executive Director, Clinical Development & Operations, Cardio Renal Metabolic

Description

Building on our legacy of innovative treatments for a range of cardiovascular, renal and metabolic conditions, our R&D strategy takes a holistic view of the needs of people with metabolic diseases such as diabetes, who often have multiple, related conditions. We are pursuing the next wave of innovative medicines for obesity, kidney and liver diseases – including metabolic dysfunction-associated steatohepatitis (MASH). We are looking for a senior leader with clinical development and operational experience who can drive our strategy to transform lives of patients with cardio-renal-metabolic diseases and impact on generations.

Head, Clinical Development & Operations – Cardio Renal Metabolic (Head CD&O CRM) are value creators, innovator & developer of world-class clinical program execution paths across the entire Therapeutic Area (TA) and moderator & facilitator for ensuring clinical execution excellence within a given TA. The Head CD&O-CRM is nominated for each of the Therapeutic Areas as a bridge connecting strategy with execution excellence. The Head CD&O-CRM reports into Medicine organization and is member of the TA Medicine Leadership Team providing operational input into the TA Medicine strategy. Head CD&O-CRM acts as functional manager for Clinical Development Operations Lead (CDOL) nominated at program level.

As an employee of Boehringer Ingelheim, you will actively contribute to the discovery, development, and delivery of our products to our patients and customers. Our global presence provides opportunity for all employees to collaborate internationally, offering visibility and opportunity to directly contribute to the companies' success. We realize that our strength and competitive advantage lie with our people. We support our employees in several ways to foster a healthy working environment, meaningful work, diversity and inclusion, mobility, networking, and work-life balance. Our competitive compensation and benefit programs reflect Boehringer Ingelheim's high regard for our employees.

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Duties & Responsibilities

Head CD&O-CRM is accountable for proactive development of operational strategy for accelerated and efficient execution of clinical development programs within CRM focusing on being above industry benchmark for key performance indicators.

Accountable for the governance of clinical program execution within CRM In alignment with CRM Medicine and Global Medical Affairs drives opportunities for engagement and collaboration with partners relevant for CRM that includes but not limited to professional societies, academic institutions, site networks, patient groups and suppliers. Head CD&O-CRM participates in governance or steering committee meetings with strategic partners and is responsible for resolving complex problems related to clinical delivery. Head CD&O-CRM is responsible for maintaining high level of visibility of operational topics among TA strategic partners. Head CD&O-CRM is responsible for leading and representing Boehringer Ingelheim as a clinical operational counterpart for alliance partner, in-licensing partners and collaborators.

Support cross-functional team in Medicine, TA and Translational Medicine and Clinical Pharmacology in creating processes or standards that are necessary at therapeutic area-level for improving execution efficiency and quality. Fosters inclusion of technology and digital tools that enables implementation of clinical programs with speed and value. This includes proactively supporting CRM in building an integrated platform to gather evidence from various sources such as RWE, claims data, registry, etc. Head CD&O-CRM challenges trial assumptions from clinical delivery team and ensures data-driven trial planning, country and site selection, patient and customer-centricity and build by design into clinical programs.

Requirements

• MD or PhD degree is desirable. The minimum is a degree in life sciences with more than 15 years of experience in clinical development and operations or Bachelor’s degree in health sciences with a minimum of twenty (20) years of experience.
• Experience within the TA of Cardio Renal Metabolic

Capabilities:

• Commitment to high ethical standards and desire to transform lives of patients with unmet needs;
• Leadership mindset with ability to lead by example, attract and develop talent;
• Strong commercial and business acumen;
• Very strong strategic mindset and excellent communications and negotiation skills;
• Proven ability to build internal relationship and exert influence in a matrix and virtual environment and external relationship with thought leaders, industry bodies, etc;
• Ability to create a culture of collaboration and being able to reach out beyond organizational boundaries for constructive solution finding;
• Be able to drive decision making with organizational flexibility across Global TAs, Corporate Medicine and Global Regions;
• Proven track record in the creation/execution of digital innovation projects in healthcare
• requires comprehensive/deep knowledge of the Medicine strategy and vision as well as comprehensive/deep knowledge or understanding of the TA strategy and vision.
• In-depth knowledge of the strategy of competitors and of developments/trends in the market.

Skills:

• Strong negotiation skills: Demonstrates the ability to obtain maximum results from meetings in which interests conflict both in terms of content and maintaining good relations
• Strategic planning and forecasting skills
• Ability to create, manage and cultivate change
• Visionary: Ability to step back from one’s daily routine, explore ideas for the future, regard the facts from a distance and see them in a broader context or in the longer term
• Develops(& discovers)individuals & builds effective teams
• Customer orientation: Ability to actively and truly engage with customers, building strong customer relationships and delivering customer-centric solutions
• Stakeholder management: Ability to effectively build and manage relationships with many different (internal & external) stakeholders, engaging with them in a planned and meaningful way in pursuit of our strategic objectives, and feeding intelligence back across BI to deliver maximum
• (Agile) Project Management: Ability to initiating, plan, executing, controlling and closing projects including reporting on results and/or lessons learned
• Effective Communication & Influencing Skills: Ability to have a positive impact on others, to persuade or convince them in order to gain their support
• Solid Medical/Scientific understanding, incl. general understanding of Pharma industry, rules and regulations
• Financial acumen: Ability to interpret and apply understanding of key financial indicators to make better business decisions
• Effective cross-functional collaboration: Ability to develop and maintain relations, alliances and coalitions within and outside the organization and to use them in order to obtain information, support and cooperation
• Curiosity, innovative thinking: Ability and a strong desire to know or learn something, inquisitiveness, interest, curiousness

Desired Skills, Experience and Abilities

Additional Requirements:

• Digital savviness: Displays the ability to use technologies to access information, be creative, innovative, solve problems, communicate, navigate, learn & apply in a digital environment.
• Integrity and Compliance Mindset: Adherence to the standards, values and rules of conduct associated with one’s position and the culture in which one operates.
• Pro-active result driven behavior: Ability to take direct action to attain or exceed objectives.
• Outcome orientation: is driven by outcomes and results.
• Data-driven insights generation: Ability to take decisions based on data analysis and interpretation.
• Efficiency: Discipline & accountability; decision taken based on Real World Clinical Outcomes, Health Economic Value, Quality of Care & Efficiency and patient preference.

Eligibility Requirements:

• Must be legally authorized to work in the United States without restriction.
• Must be willing to take a drug test and post-offer physical (if required).
• Must be 18 years of age or older.

Additional Duties and Responsibilities

Participate as core member of Clinical Evidence Committee (CEC)on behalf of CD&O. Participate in Therapeutic Area Leadership Committee (TALC) and Human Pharma Leadership Committee (HPSC) meetings on invitation to discuss and update operational delivery of clinical programs. Proactively contribute to development of TA strategy. Guide Evidence Leads on operational aspects and challenge medical/scientific assumptions with goal to achieve speed and value.

Support Head CD&O-Therapeutic Areas in developing the functional discipline through (i) functional-area leadership, (ii) keeping abreast with latest functional development in the pharma industry, (iii) supporting consistency, coherence, and compliance, (iv) establishing area-relevant standards, (v) encouraging innovation. Is responsible for providing the various CD&O functions, Regions Clinical Operations Leaders and study teams with thorough, current knowledge of diseases in assigned TA, including sharing and explaining applicable clinical development plans, details of competitive landscape, treatment practices and thought-leading investigators or groups.

Compensation Data:

This position offers a base salary typically between $273,000 and $420,000. The position may be eligible for a role specific variable or performance-based bonus and or other compensation elements. For an overview of our benefits please click here.