Executive Life Cycle Management Director

About this role

Who We Are: Neurocrine Biosciences is a leading biopharmaceutical company with a simple purpose: to relieve suffering for people with great needs. We are dedicated to discovering, developing and commercializing life-changing treatments for patients with under-addressed neurological, psychiatric, endocrine and immunological disorders. The company's diverse portfolio includes FDA-approved treatments for tardive dyskinesia, chorea associated with Huntington's disease, classic congenital adrenal hyperplasia, hyperphagia in Prader-Willi syndrome, endometriosis* and uterine fibroids*, as well as a robust pipeline including multiple compounds in mid- to late-phase clinical development across our core therapeutic areas. For more than three decades, we have applied our unique insight into neuroscience and the interconnections between brain and body systems to treat complex conditions. We relentlessly pursue medicines to ease the burden of debilitating diseases and disorders, because you deserve brave science. For more information, visit  neurocrine.com , and follow the company on  LinkedIn ,  X , Facebook and YouTube . ( *in collaboration with AbbVie )

About the Role: Provides strategic leadership for the lifecycle management of assigned commercial-stage and near-launch products, with a primary emphasis on maximizing the long term patient and business value of launched brands.

Leads the development and advancement of an integrated, multi-year lifecycle strategy that connects Commercial, Medical Affairs, Clinical Development, Regulatory Affairs, Market Access, Health Economics and Outcomes Research, and other relevant functions.

Establishes the strategic context, creates shared ownership of the total lifecycle plan, and ensures that cross-functional perspectives are translated into clear priorities, investment choices, and coordinated execution. Works particularly closely with Commercial and Medical Affairs leadership to ensure that market, patient, healthcare professional, payer, scientific, clinical, and competitive insights are foundational to lifecycle decisions. _ Your Contributions (include, but are not limited to): • Leads the development, alignment, and ongoing evolution of the integrated lifecycle strategy and long-range plan for assigned launched and near-launch brands

• Serves as the senior matrix leader for the cross-functional Lifecycle Team, establishing the team’s vision, strategic context, priorities, decision framework, operating model, and measures of success

• Creates shared ownership of the total product strategy across functions while maintaining clarity regarding functional roles, responsibilities, deliverables, and decision rights

• Partners closely with Commercial and Medical Affairs leadership to connect annual brand and medical plans with the broader, multi-year lifecycle strategy

• Ensures lifecycle decisions incorporate relevant patient, caregiver, healthcare professional, payer, scientific, clinical, regulatory, competitive, market, operational, and financial insights.

• Identifies, evaluates, and prioritizes opportunities to maximize patient benefit and sustainable product value, which may include: • New indications or patient populations

• Label expansion opportunities

• New formulations, dosing approaches, routes of administration, or delivery systems

• Clinical, medical, health economic, and real-world evidence generation

• Product differentiation and competitive response strategies

• Market access and reimbursement opportunities

• Patient identification, treatment initiation, adherence, or persistence initiatives

• Geographic expansion, strategic partnerships, or external innovation opportunities

• Leads development of an integrated evidence strategy across Clinical Development, Medical Affairs, HEOR, Real-World Evidence, Market Access, and Commercial to address the evolving needs of patients, healthcare professionals, payers, health systems, and other stakeholders

• Brings commercial and medical perspectives into relevant clinical development, regulatory, evidence-generation, and product-development decisions while ensuring that activities remain consistent with applicable legal, regulatory, and compliance requirements

• Partners with Commercial Analytics, Forecasting, Finance, and functional leaders to develop business cases, evaluate strategic options, test key assumptions, assess value and risk, and recommend investment priorities

• Translates the lifecycle strategy into an actionable roadmap with clearly defined objectives, milestones, deliverables, dependencies, resource requirements, budgets, risks, and performance measures

• Monitors brand performance, the treatment landscape, competitor activity, scientific developments, stakeholder needs, policy changes, and other external factors that may affect the lifecycle strategy

• Maintains accountability for the quality, timeliness, and strategic coherence of integrated lifecycle recommendations and cross-functional deliverables

• Establishes effective governance, communication, and escalation pathways to ensure that material opportunities, risks, decisions, and changes are visible to appropriate senior leaders

• Communicates the lifecycle vision, priorities, progress, risks, and decisions clearly across functions and organizational levels, including executive leadership

• Anticipates and addresses misalignment, unclear ownership, competing priorities, and team performance challenges before they affect program delivery

• May lead, coach, and develop employees, contractors, program leaders, or project teams depending on organizational design

• Partners with functional leaders to assess resource and capability requirements and to ensure that appropriate expertise is engaged at the right time based on the needs and maturity of the program

• Influences without direct authority and develops trusted relationships across Commercial, Medical Affairs, Development, Regulatory, Market Access, Tech

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