Therapeutic Area Biomarker Lead Director

24 hours ago


Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States Novartis Group Companies Full time

Job Summary

We are seeking a highly skilled Director Therapeutic Area Biomarker Lead to join our team at Novartis Group Companies. As a key member of our team, you will be responsible for leading project matrix teams of Biomarker Leads and subject matter experts to develop biomarker strategies for disease and/or assets across the Research-Development-Commercial continuum.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Acting as BMD's strategic and scientific leader of the DAx, renal or Global Health disease areas to lead fit for purpose clinical biomarker strategies and plans, translational sciences, data, and precision medicine approaches for their portfolio in partnerships with key stakeholders including clinical development, research, and other translational medicine functions.
  • Leading efforts to identify, develop, and drive disease, mechanistic and compound biology that serves the clinical and precision medicine approaches for the multi-indication portfolio. Is responsible for the contextualization and interpretation of the biomarker data.
  • Leading a dedicated matrixed group of biomarker leads (leading at project level) and Subject Matter Experts, as well as key program partners, to together develop biomarkers strategies for disease and/or assets across the Research-Development-Commercial continuum.
  • Acting as Biomarker Lead on clinical projects to drive biomarker and precision medicine strategy at the compound level.
  • Representing BMD on decision boards meetings, and clinical protocol review for their projects.
  • Developing deep understanding of the translational biomarkers for a project, focused on compound, disease, target, and pathway biology.
  • With our data science leads, leading strategic translational data efforts centered on integrating and analyzing large-scale patient muti-modal data sets (omics, imaging, digital, etc.).
  • Providing thought leadership with other BMD therapeutic area TABLs to identify alignments and drive innovation across assets, indications, and therapeutic areas.
  • Reporting to Therapeutic Area Biomarker Head (TABH) and cooperating closely to enable the development of disease are/indication/project level biomarker strategy and plans, implementation, contextualizing, and interpretation.
  • Acting as an enterprise partner and strategic leader in a matrix environment; integrating and representing projects in the internal/external scientific discussions and initiatives.
  • Staying up to date on clinical, disease, biology and scientific literature for their respective disease areas or indications.

Requirements:

  • Minimum 10 years of experience with deep understanding of any of the following biological areas: renal biology, immunology, infectious and tropical diseases or related areas.
  • Pharmaceutical industry experience
  • PhD, MD, PharmD, MD/PhD, or MSc degree with relevant experience
  • Scientific excellence supported by academic and/or industry career track, and/or high-quality publications; clinical and/or biological expertise in renal biology, immunology, infectious and tropical diseases or related areas.
  • Experience and familiarity with quantitative research and data is strongly preferred, including expertise in omics profiling, clinical imaging, machine learning, genetics or data science.
  • Proven success in leading and partnering in multidisciplinary matrix teams across Pharma/biotech, academic institutions, or commercial business functions.
  • Well-developed interpersonal and leadership skills with strong presence and ability to influence and navigate large organizational structures.

Novartis Group Companies is an Equal Opportunity Employer

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