Director, Project Management, Oncology Business Development and Licensing Job

Director, Project Management, Oncology Business Development and Licensing-PRO015861

Description

Merck & Co., Inc. Kenilworth, N.J., U.S.A. known as Merck in the United States and Canada, is a global health care leader with a diversified portfolio of prescription medicines, vaccines and animal health products. The difference between potential and achievement lies in the spark that fuels innovation and inventiveness; this is the space where Merck has codified its legacy for over a century. Merck’s success is backed by ethical integrity, forward momentum, and an inspiring mission to achieve new milestones in global healthcare.

Merck’s Oncology organization is dedicated to delivering breakthrough innovations that extend and improve the lives of cancer patients worldwide. Our team of dauntless, forward-thinking individuals achieves this through an unwavering commitment to supporting accessibility to medicine, providing new therapeutic procedures, and collaborating with governments and payers to ensure that people who need medicines have access to them. At Merck, our focus is on innovation and launch execution excellence; we translate breakthrough science into innovative medicines that help people with cancer across the globe.

The core responsibility of this senior PM is to work collaboratively with the Oncology/Immuno-Oncology Search&Evaluation Executive Director (Onc S&E ED) to manage the oncology Business Development & Licensing (BD&L) portfolio. Key responsibilities include working with therapeutic area and cross functional stakeholders to drive alignment on licensing strategy, integrating and prioritizing opportunities and activities from discovery through clinical development within oncology BD&L portfolio, and ensuring alignment of the strategy across phases of project execution.

Specific responsibilities include:

- In collaboration with the Onc S&E ED, formulate licensing strategy with preclinical and clinical development leadership and line functions. Ensure robust strategies are communicated and implemented to key internal and external stakeholders.

- Oversee the oncology BD&L portfolio, working closely with search and evaluation leads, transaction leads, and key oncology stakeholders to:

- Track and integrate discussions of internal and external opportunities. Ensure discussion of external landscape and possible fit of assets within the internal portfolio.

- Facilitate prioritization discussions to identify alignment with strategy and relative priority of each asset. Ensure integration of strategy into various stages of execution.

- Effectively oversee time-sensitive items and ensure that preclinical and clinical deals of highest priority are being advanced and executed in a timely fashion

- Work closely with cross functional stakeholders (commercial, preclinical, clinical, BD&L, oncology stakeholders) to ensure comprehensive knowledge of key activities and alignment between activities and needs relating to the early and late stage internal pipeline.

- Work in close partnership with the Keytruda external collaborations team to ensure alignment of the overall oncology BD&L strategy and coordination between oncology collaborations and licensing activities.

- Drive improved awareness, planning, and decision making at key cross-functional licensing evaluation meetings.

- Improve planning timelines for governance-ready projects, communication of governance outcomes, and incorporation of key feedback into portfolio-level planning.

- Communicate and integrate senior management perspectives into internal portfolio discussions and licensing strategies.

- Make recommendations for, and may lead or execute, continuous improvement projects that will positively impact the performance or effectiveness of BD&L, development teams, or Merck. These projects can relate to optimizing BD&L capabilities or to improving the functioning of teams and / or development processes related to licensing projects.

- Based on capability, experience and bandwidth, participate in focused oncology/immuno-oncology S&E projects, e.g. participating in partnering meetings, taking on specific opportunities for triage and cross-functional evaluation

- Help drive incorporation of best practices across the BD&L organization.

This position will sit within Business Development and Licensing and will report to the Oncology/Immuno-Oncology Search&Evaluation Executive Director.

Qualifications

Education:

- Bachelor's degree required with a concentration in a scientific-related discipline strongly preferred.

- Advanced scientific degree (e.g., MS, PharmD, Ph.D.) preferred.

- Project Management certification / training (PMP) and / or coursework & training in Project Management preferred.

Required:

- A minimum of Ten (10) years of experience in PM or related role; expertise in pharma/biotech required.

- Strong knowledge of the drug / vaccine product development and commercialization process with demonstrated ability to translate knowledge and expertise across various situations.

- Well developed and effective facilitation and situational leadership skills; able to establish cooperative team environments and work with diverse stakeholders to drive alignment of approach and/or decision making.

- Is business savvy and results oriented; is able to recognize and prioritize improvements/ opportunities for the business and is flexible to adjust based on those needs to maximize impact.

- Proven ability to analyze, integrate, recommend, contribute to development of conceptual plans for, and lead implement of, strategic, process, and improvement and change initiatives cross-functionally. Can drive creative problem solving within teams.

- Demonstrated effectiveness in change management, including building consensus and communicating vision.

- Impeccable organizational skills, operational skills, and ability to understand the content of and document strategic discussions.

- Strong ability to lead without authority, including influencing and motivating others to drive objectives to completion.

- Effective at energizing others, establishing clear goals, and delegating responsibility.

- Able to understand details, but keep overall broad view of projects, priorities, and strategies in order to ensure appropriate management of the internal portfolio.

- Effective communicator (oral and written) able to work across levels and functions; knows when and how to speak up and appropriately raise issues to team and management.

- Comfortable with ambiguous situations and able to work with others to develop a path forward.

Preferred:

- Business development experience a plus.

- Oncology experience preferred.

Your role at Merck is integral to helping the world meet new breakthroughs that affect generations to come, and we’re counting on your skills and inventiveness to help make meaningful contributions to global medical advancement. At Merck, we’re inventing for life.

If you need an accommodation for the application process please email us at staffingaadar@merck.com.

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Job: Product Dev Proj/Prog Mgmnt

Job Title:Dir, Project Management

Primary Location: NA-US-NJ-Kenilworth

Employee Status: Regular

Travel: Yes, 20 % of the Time

Number of Openings: 1

Company Trade Name:Merck