(Senior) Director Global Product Strategy (m/f/d)

As our (Senior) Director Global Product Strategy (m/f/d) for our Foundational Brands, you will be leading our assigned cross-functional Global Product Team (GPT), overseeing the entire lifecycle management and asset strategy. This pivotal position plays a key role for our company's success, driving strategic initiatives and ensuring the future-readiness of our foundational brands.
YOUR CONTRIBUTION

• Strategic Leadership: Lead the Global Product Team, orchestrating cross-functional collaboration to develop and execute a cohesive asset strategy
• Holistic Planning: Deliver an annual asset strategy and plan, seamlessly integrating commercial and pharmaceutical lifecycle managment
• Strategic Growth Development: Drive strategic growth and development for our established products and brands.
• Visionary Thinking: Develop a vision to evolve our established brands into future oriented strategic products, that are key to the success of our organization
• Lifecycle Management: Oversee and align growth strategies in close collaboration with the related regulatory and commercial functions as well as safeguarding product supply in collaboration with Technical Operations
• Stakeholder Relationship Management: Cultivate effective relationships with key opinion leaders, external partners and stakeholders, ensuring alignment with strategic objectives
• Foster collaboration: Create a unified approach across the entire commercial organization, establishing seamless connections with Tech Ops, Regulatory, Supply, and key regional functions globally
• Data-Driven Decision-Making: Implement a data-driven process for decisions within the GPT, integrating both technical and commercial perspectives
• Risk Management: Identify and manage asset related company risks
  

YOUR PROFILE

• Broad experience in the pharmaceutical or biotechnology industry, with a focus on strategic and global product management
• Effective project management skills, with the ability to prioritize tasks, meet deadlines and manage multiple initiatives simultaneously
• Strong understanding of pharmaceutical technology and quality aspects over the product life cycle
• Demonstratable experience with the development and execution of change management strategies, stakeholder alignment and governance structures
• Strong leadership qualities with the ability to foster collaboration and inspire a team towards common goals and resolve challenging dynamics
• Exceptional communication skills, presentation skills and executive presence with the ability to effectively communicate complex scientific concepts to diverse audiences
• Fluent in English, preferably intermediate German
  

Your Benefits

• Individual career development with the purpose of improving the quality of life of our patients
• Hybrid work model that allows a good work-life balance
• Attractive location with good transport links, modern workplaces and a company restaurants (€3.80,-/menu)
• International family business with flat hierarchies and an open, appreciative corporate culture
• Attractive remuneration with extensive social benefits
• Variety of employer-subsidized benefits such as WellPass (€17.90,-/month), Germany ticket (€ 10,-/month), Corporate Benefits and JobBike
  

About Us
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Welcome to Merz Therapeutics, a leading pharmaceutical company that helps people with movement disorders, neurological diseases, liver diseases and other health conditions regain their quality of life.
We are proud to be a family-owned and value-driven company that has been dedicated to serving the needs of our patients for 110 years and is now a global innovation leader with products in more than 90 countries.
Our goal is to use our products to improve treatment outcomes for patients around the world, thereby reducing the burden of suffering for affected people and their surroundings.
Our dedication and commitment to relentless research and development is to ensure that unmet patient needs are identified and appropriate treatments are provided.
Therefore, become part of our international and motivated Merz Therapeutics family now and help us achieve our goal:
"BETTER OUTCOMES FOR MORE PATIENTS"