The Position

Tasks & responsibilities

• As Head of CD&O-CRM you will be accountable for the proactive development of operational strategy for accelerated and efficient execution of clinical development programs within CRM focusing on being above industry benchmark for key performance indicators.
• You will be accountable for the governance of clinical program execution within CRM in alignment with CRM Medicine and Global Medical Affairs and drive opportunities for engagement and collaboration with partners relevant for CRM that include but are not limited to professional societies, academic institutions, site networks, patient groups and suppliers.
• In this role you will participate in governance or steering committee meetings with strategic partners and be responsible for resolving complex problems related to clinical delivery.
• You are responsible for maintaining high level of visibility of operational topics among TA strategic partners.
• Further, you will lead and represent Boehringer Ingelheim as a clinical operational counterpart for alliance partners, in-licensing partners and collaborators.
• Besides this, you will support cross-functional teams in Medicine, TA and Translational Medicine and Clinical Pharmacology in creating processes or standards that are necessary at therapeutic area-level for improving execution efficiency and quality. You will foster inclusion of technology and digital tools that enable the implementation of clinical programs with speed and value. This includes proactively supporting CRM in building an integrated platform to gather evidence from various sources such as RWE, claims data, registry, etc.
• Finally, as Head of CD&O-CRM, you will challenge the clinical team's study assumptions and ensure data-driven study planning, country and site selection, patient and client focus, and clinical program design.

Requirements

• MD or Ph D degree strongly desirable; minimum a degree in life sciences with extensive experience in clinical development and operations or a Bachelor’s degree in health sciences with long-term experience in the respective area
• Successful track record of developing drugs in cardio-renal-metabolism TA

• Commitment to high ethical standards and desire to transform lives of patients with unmet needs
• Leadership mindset with ability to lead by example, attract and develop talent
• Strong commercial and business acumen
• Very strong strategic mindset and excellent communications and negotiation skills
• Proven ability to build internal relationship and exert influence in a matrix and virtual environment and external relationship with thought leaders, industry bodies, etc.
• Ability to create a culture of collaboration and being able to reach out beyond organizational boundaries for constructive solution finding
• Be able to drive decision making with organizational flexibility across Global TAs, Corporate Medicine and Global Regions
• Proven track record in the creation/execution of digital innovation projects in healthcare
• Requires comprehensive/deep knowledge of the Medicine strategy and vision as well as comprehensive/deep knowledge or understanding of the TA strategy and vision
• In-depth knowledge of the strategy of competitors and of developments/trends in the market

• Strong negotiation skills: Demonstrates the ability to obtain maximum results from meetings in which interests conflict both in terms of content and maintaining good relations
• Strategic planning and forecasting skills
• Ability to create, manage and cultivate change
• Visionary: Ability to step back from one’s daily routine, explore ideas for the future, regard the facts from a distance and see them in a broader context or in the longer term
• Develops (& discovers) individuals & builds effective teams
• Customer orientation: Ability to actively and truly engage with customers, building strong customer relationships and delivering customer-centric solutions
• Stakeholder management: Ability to effectively build and manage relationships with many different (internal & external) stakeholders, engaging with them in a planned and meaningful way in pursuit of our strategic objectives, and feeding intelligence back across BI to deliver maximum
• (Agile) Project Management: Ability to initiating, plan, executing, controlling and closing projects including reporting on results and/or lessons learned
• Effective Communication & Influencing Skills: Ability to have a positive impact on others, to persuade or convince them in order to gain their support
• Solid Medical/Scientific understanding, incl. general understanding of Pharma industry, rules and regulations
• Financial acumen: Ability to interpret and apply understanding of key financial indicators to make better business decisions
• Effective cross-functional collaboration: Ability to develop and maintain relations, alliances and coalitions within and outside the organization and to use them in order to obtain information, support and cooperation
• Curiosity , innovative thinking: Ability and a strong desire to know or learn something, inquisitiveness, interest, curiousness

Desired Skills, Experience and Abilities

• Digital savviness: Displays the ability to use technologies to access information, be creative, innovative, solve problems, communicate, navigate, learn & apply in a digital environment
• Integrity and Compliance Mindset: Adherence to the standards, values and rules of conduct associated with one’s position and the culture in which one operates
• Pro-active result driven behavior: Ability to take direct action to attain or exceed objectives
• Outcome orientation: is driven by outcomes and results
• Data-driven insights generation: Ability to take decisions based on data analysis and interpretation
• Efficiency: Discipline & accountability; decision taken based on Real World Clinical Outcomes, Health Economic Value, Quality of Care & Efficiency and patient preference

• Participates as core member of Clinical Evidence Committee (CEC) on behalf of CD&O. Participates in Therapeutic Area Leadership Committee (TALC) and Human Pharma Leadership Committee (HPSC) meetings on invitation to discuss and update operational delivery of clinical programs. Proactively contributes to development of TA strategy. Guides Evidence Leads on operational aspects and challenges medical/scientific assumptions with the goal to achieve speed and value.
• Supports Head of CD&O of other Therapeutic Areas in developing the functional discipline through (i) functional-area leadership, (ii) keeping abreast with latest functional development in the pharma industry, (iii) supporting consistency, coherence, and compliance, (iv) establishing area-relevant standards, (v) encouraging innovation. Is responsible for providing the various CD&O functions, Regions Clinical Operations Leaders and study teams with thorough, current knowledge of diseases in CRM, including sharing and explaining applicable clinical development plans, details of competitive landscape, treatment practices and thought-leading investigators or groups.

Ready to contact us?