ViatrisVI

Lifecycle Group Leader – Viatris Innovation, Basel

Viatris Inc. is a global healthcare company dedicated to empowering people worldwide by providing access to quality medicines.

Viatris

Employee count: 5000+

Switzerland only
VIATRIS INNOVATION GMBH

At VIATRIS, we see healthcare not as it is but as it should be. We act courageously and are uniquely positioned to be a source of stability in a world of evolving healthcare needs.

Viatris empowers people worldwide to live healthier at every stage of life.

We do so via:

Access – Providing high quality trusted medicines regardless of geography or circumstance;
Leadership – Advancing sustainable operations and innovative solutions to improve patient health; and
Partnership – Leveraging our collective expertise to connect people to products and services.

Our global portfolio includes best-in-class, iconic brand-name products as well as global key brands; generics, including branded and complex generics; and other offerings across a wide range of therapeutic areas. We are committed to helping create healthier communities worldwide through education, outreach and better access to treatment.

For those driven to live their lives with purpose, Viatris helps employees realise their full potential by creating a collaborative culture that fosters courage and resilience. Viatris is more than just a place to work. This is a place to make a difference in the world.

Make an Impact That Matters
Join Viatris as a Lifecycle Group Leader and play a key role in bringing transformative medicines to patients globally leading strategy, innovation, and cross-functional collaboration at every stage of the product journey.

Role Purpose

As a Lifecycle Group Leader at Viatris, you will shape and drive the global strategy for late-stage development programs, leading cross-functional teams to deliver innovative therapies to patients worldwide. You will be responsible for steering assets from development through launch, ensuring scientific, regulatory, and commercial success. This role is pivotal in aligning internal and external stakeholders, managing strategic partnerships, and contributing to business development efforts in a dynamic, high-impact environment.

The Role & What You Will Be Doing

Every day, we rise to the challenge to make a difference and here’s how the Lifecycle Group Leader will make an impact:

  • The job holder has global responsibilities to define the overall strategy for compound development, through life cycle and implementation of such strategy including supporting business development.
  • The Lifecycle Group leader will have such responsibilities over one or more late-stage development programs.
  • Ensure timely execution of the development plan across the different divisions of Viatris.
  • Managerial responsibilities over 6-8 program team members representing strategic functions from preclinical, CMC, clinical pharmacology, clinical science, biometry, regulatory, market access and program management.
  • Present the Life Cycle Team strategy and recommendations to the Viatris Management Boards (Development and Executive Committees)
  • Represent the Life Cycle Team or Life Cycle Group in Business Development activities.
  • Supervise Alliance/Partnership activities of his/her asset(s) under co-developments.
  • Maintain close working contacts with all stakeholder functions.

About Your Skills & Experience

For this role, we’re looking for a candidate who has an effective combination of the following qualifications, skills and experiences:

  • University degree (preferable MSc, PhD or MD) or equivalent
  • Strong managerial and excellent leadership skills
  • At least 15 years of experience within the pharmaceutical industry
  • Excellent understanding of global drug development from entry-into-man to post-approval activities, including regulatory & market access environments, marketing & commercial aspects
  • Proven experience as successful leader in strategic cross-functional environment and matrix environment
  • Has worked on a project that required activity/milestone achievement to 'file' the compound and/or prepare/launch the product.
  • Has managed complex projects with ambitious milestones in high-pressure circumstances.
  • Strong people management and leadership skills, demonstrated success in fostering team collaboration.
  • Strong strategic planning and priority setting capabilities, ability to initiate, develop, and implement changes at the product and group level.
  • Ability to accurately monitor and analyse market trends, competitive landscape, and proactively derive insights to inform decision making.
  • Fluent in English (German and French would be advantage)
  • 3 days per week is required in the Allschwil Office, Basel.

At Viatris, we are dedicated to building a truly diverse, inclusive and authentic workplace, so if you’re excited about this role but your past experiencedoesn’t fully align with every requirement, we still encourage you to apply. You may just be the right candidate for this or other roles.

Why Viatris?

At Viatris, we offer competitive salaries, benefits and an inclusive environment where you can use your experiences, perspectives and skills to help make an impact on the lives of others.You will also have the opportunity to access excellent career progression opportunities and work-life balance initiatives.

Diversity & Inclusion at Viatris

At Viatris, diversity and inclusion are essential to our mission. The diversity we foster in all aspects of our business can be one of our greatest strengths in redefining healthcare not as it is, but as it should be. If you would like to know more about what diversity, equity and inclusion means to us, please visithttps://www.viatris.com/en/Careers/Diversity-and-Inclusion

Sustainability at Viatris

Corporate social responsibility is fundamental to the Viatris mission. We work to advance responsible and sustainable operations and leverage our collective expertise to empower people to live healthier at every stage of life, recognizing that our actions affect the stakeholders and communities we serve. To learn more about our efforts, please visit https://www.viatris.com/en/about-us/corporate-responsibility

At Viatris, we offercompetitivesalaries, benefitsandan inclusive environment where you can use your experiences, perspectives and skills to help make an impact on the lives of others.

Viatris is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

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At Viatris, we believe in healthcare as it should be—empowering people worldwide to live healthier at every stage of life. Formed in November 2020 from the combination of Mylan and Upjohn, our mission is to provide high quality medications to patients, regardless of geography or circumstance. With a comprehensive product portfolio that includes brands, generics, and biosimilars, we strive to ensure that the medicines patients need are accessible to them.

Our name, Viatris, reflects our commitment to providing a path to achieving three critical goals: expanding access to medicines, leading through innovation to meet patient needs, and being a trusted partner to the healthcare community. We operate in more than 165 countries, leveraging our global scale and deep understanding of local markets to deliver quality healthcare solutions. As a partner of choice for businesses and patients, we connect our collective expertise to address emerging global health challenges while advancing sustainable operations to improve patient outcomes.

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