50844 - Dir Program Leader

Who we are

Together, we’re on a mission to make good health more affordable and accessible, to help millions around the world enjoy healthier lives. It’s a mission that bonds our people across nearly 60 countries and a rich, diverse variety of nationalities and backgrounds. Working here means working with the world’s leading manufacturer of generic medicines, and the proud producer of many of the products on the World Health Organization’s Essential Medicines List. Today, at least 200 million people around the world take one of our medicines every single day. An amazing number, but we’re always looking for new ways to continue making a difference, and new people to make a difference with.

The opportunity

The Senior Program Leader has overall responsibility for leading the global development of their programs, with the objective to maximize the program’s potential. They will represent the best interests of the program and as such will be the point contact within the business.

The Senior Program Leader is accountable for leading delivery of the assigned program/s in accordance to goals and budget, aligned with Teva strategy and priorities. They will ensure team resources are appropriately assigned to deliver the project objectives together with functional management. In addition, the Senior Program Leader will contribute to the overall therapeutic area strategy.

The Senior Program Leader will operate in a balanced matrix environment and will be required to adopt an enterprise mindset in leading their program. They will lead the cross-functional project teams for high value, high cost drug development programs, both early and late stage, and will be responsible for delivering a product development plan approved by governance and securing investment for the development program.

How you’ll spend your day

1. Lead and execute the overall integrated development product plan. This includes integrating cross-functional strategic plans such as the target product profile, the clinical development plan, and the CMC pharmaceutical development plan into an overarching integrated plan.
2. Executive level presentation of programs at the various governance bodies to ensure alignment of approach and deliverables.
3. Lead the cross-functional project team to secure approval and funding for the overall product development plan. Escalate if resource and budget impedes progress according to agreed plan
4. Lead the cross-functional project team through the strategic planning and delivery of the development program, proactively identifying and managing issues and risks and ensuring decisions are made at the appropriate levels and with the appropriate cross-functional input.
5. Collaborate cross-functionally within and outside of R&D to ensure their teams are fully resourced and skilled appropriately to deliver, working expeditiously to highlight any resource gaps that impact the program delivery or quality.
6. Collaborate with all relevant functions to ensure the right level of expertise and quality is built into the programs – including clinical, commercial, regulatory, CMC, operations, pre-clinical, etc. Participate in expert-team discussions as required.
7. Together with the Program Manager, ensure the team has a high quality risk management plan and that significant risks to the programs have planned mitigations and are flagged in terms of likelihood and impact, to the relevant governance body.
8. Ensure all relevant program information is accurate, current, and approved by respective leadership.
9. Provide strong leadership to the cross-functional Program team – ensuring the complexities of development are addressed and, together with the Program Manager, ensure that expert input from all key functions are incorporated into the plans.
10. Stay abreast of industry trends, regulatory changes and scientific developments within relevant therapy areas. Routinely apply insights to active Programs. Share insights to inform R&D/therapy area strategy. Providing mentoring and guidance to the project team members.
11. Follows all Teva policies and procedures.

Your experience and qualifications

1. Bachelor’s level degree in scientific field with required professional experience. Preferred: (i.e. MD, MBA, Pharm D, PhD)
2. Minimum of 15 years experience in the pharmaceutical industry and at least 5 years leading late stage programs.
3. Experience in program lifecycle management
4. Established track record of effective and influential oral presentations – including presenting investment opportunities to senior executive teams. Preferred: Experience delivering MAA/NDA/BLA/JNDAs as well as sNDAs
5. In-depth knowledge of pharmaceutical development (i.e. experience in Phase I – III development programs and submissions).
6. Leadership: The ability to empower, grow, develop, and inspire high performing teams and individuals by providing them with clear direction linked to organizational goals.
7. Results and Performance-Driven: Assumes personal ownership and accountability for business results and solutions; consistently delivers results that meet or exceed expectations; makes the customer central to all thinking; keeps the focus on driving customer value.
8. Strong Interpersonal and People Skills: The successful candidate will have a proven background interacting with individuals at a variety of functional levels with both internal and external personnel, and the ability to perform cross-functionally.
9. Excellent Communication Skills, both Written and Oral: The successful candidate’s communication style should be diplomatic and direct, but not confrontational. He or she must be able to summarize executive level information in an articulate, clear, tangible, manner both in written form and orally.
10. Collaboration and Team Work: Puts interests of enterprise above own; works well across functions and groups; builds teams effectively; inspires follower-ship; instills an enterprise mindset.
11. Sense of Urgency: Proactively senses and responds to problems and opportunities; works to reduce “cycle” time; takes action when needed.
12. Accountability: The successful candidate must be able to effectively assume accountability for their actions. He or she should be a results-oriented team player who leads by example, holds him/herself accountable for performance, and champions all aspects of assigned areas while remaining detail-oriented.
13. Work Ethic and Passion: The successful candidate will be resourceful and innovative at tackling complex challenges with enthusiasm in a timely manner.