TA Head New Products, Medical Affairs (m/f/x)

TA Head New Products, Medical Affairs (m/f/x)

Date: 30 Oct 2024

Passion for Innovation. Compassion for Patients.

With over 120 years of experience and more than 17,000 employees in over 20 countries, Daiichi Sankyo is dedicated to discovering, developing, and delivering new standards of care that enrich the quality of life around the world. In Europe, we focus on two areas: The goal of our Specialty Business is to protect people from cardiovascular disease, the leading cause of death in Europe, and help patients who suffer from it to enjoy every precious moment of life. In Oncology, we strive to become a global pharma innovator with competitive advantage, creating novel therapies for people with cancer. Our European headquarters are in Munich, Germany, and we have affiliates in 13 European countries and Canada.

The Position:

The Head TA New Products (Medical Affairs) is responsible to proactively screen and evaluate new potential assets to be in-licensed to DSE SBD from a medical perspective, together with a x-functional team at DSE (Market Access and Commercial) and other global partners (especially BD, global medical affairs, global marketing, global strategy).

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Matrix lead of a x-functional team at Daiichi Sankyo Europe, driving in-licensing activities.
• Lead of a small medical team with 1 to 2 direct reports.
• Planning, leading, and executing the multi-discipline, multi-location, product verification aspect of new candidates.
• Lead the search, triage and evaluation of in-licensing opportunities from biotech and peer-pharma, including early research projects, new modality platforms, pre-clinical and clinical stage assets and Life Cycle Management (LCM) opportunities.
• Active participation and contribution into highest global R&D board, i.e. Global Portfolio and Asset Decision Committee (G-PAD).
• Establish and lead Due Diligence teams at DSE and process to drive the detailed scientific evaluation of potential assets to support recommendations at governance.
• Prepare materials for senior management briefings of recommended opportunities.
• Ensure effective communication during BD process with key internal partners and cross-functional teams.
• Building and maintaining a broad network of internal and external partners.
• Leveraging relevant database and analytics tools to curate technology and disease (target) biology maps in support of opportunity identification and prioritization, and anticipation of new entry points.
• Support the evaluation of new database/analytics to improve upon curation of insights.
• Conduct primary and secondary research in support of due diligence and/or strategic projects which may include, but is not limited to: KEE interfacing, medical/scientific congress attendance, review of scientific literature, and analyzing/tracking key competitors.
• Producing a landscape assessment to give an idea of the current, and future, competitive dynamics of the disease space.
• Continuously analyzing data to provide a medical judgment of the new candidates on the success of an approval.
• Responsible for the entire medical assessment of the new candidate including the target product profile establishment and the review of the competitive landscape.
• Provide recommendations for product improvements and enhancements.

Education & Professional Experience:

• MD preferred, University degree in natural sciences (medicine, pharmacy, chemistry, biotechnology, biology or equivalent) followed by 15+ years of experience in relevant roles/positions.
• Deep scientific and medical expertise in a broad field of disease areas, focus on cardiovascular and immunological diseases is a plus.
• Previous experience in R&D throughout all phases and experience in planning a product life cycle management program.
• Experience in Marketing Authorization Applications.
• Experience on active participation in Due Diligence activities and processes is a plus.
• Experience ideally in evaluating new candidates for pipeline in cardiovascular-metabolic area in defining target product profiles and evaluating risk benefit profiles in relation to current and anticipated future landscape.
• Demonstrate creativity and practice change management in order to guarantee a continuous improvement.
• Proven leadership skills in a matrix environment.
• Show empathy, respect and fairness.
• Live a culture of cooperation and team-work and take action to prevent and solve conflicts.
• Ability to work independently and as part of a team.
• Work proactively and encouraging others, show assertiveness and strong resilience.
• Strong communication, negotiation and presentation skills.
• Effective planning und review of projects.
• Analytical and systematic thinking, problem solving and ability to drive medical decisions.