Senior Director, Early Development Team Lead

Senior Director, Early Development Team Lead

The Early Development Team (EDT) Lead is a critical role – working to deliver Otsuka's pipeline and bring differentiated medicines to patients.

The EDT Leader will lead asset focused multi-disciplinary teams from pre-clinical through demonstration of clinical proof of concept through to late stage development. The EDTL will be accountable to Early Development leadership and will lead EDTs to : (i) craft a vision, strategy and development plan for early assets (ii) develop a set of objective progression criteria for each asset advancing through the Otsuka pipeline (iii) deliver the programs to the organization and (iv) evaluate opportunities to build value in the pipeline.

Leads Early Development teams to deliver early phase assets through clinical PoC, that supports go / no-go decisions for further development.

• Engages EDT members and cross company stakeholders to devise and implement an agreed development strategy for early phase portfolio assets through clinical PoC, aligned with late phase Development and Commercial.
• Effectively engages with and utilizes governance and advisory bodies to agree, revise and progress asset development plans proposed by the EDTs.
• Continually analyzes, progresses, and engages EDT members and stakeholders to solve problems and deliver data-driven decisions.
• Ensures that the EDT delivers to Full Development assets that meet robust Target Reimbursable Product Profiles that can achieve pricing, reimbursement, access and puts forward recommendations when these criteria cannot be met.
• Ensures the process and output of the team meets set milestones, within timelines & budget while remaining cognizant of opportunities to streamline development without compromising quality.
• Engages senior leaders and functional area stakeholders to ensure alignment of program strategy and operational plans with functional area capabilities.

Works with EDT to set goals and objectives for asset development; ensures aligned functional and individual objectives (for self and team members) across the matrix to accomplish the asset development plan.

MD, PhD, DVM, PharmD, MBA, or equivalent advanced biology degree