What are the responsibilities and job description for the Executive Director, Pipeline and New Product Planning position at Vera Therapeutics?
About Vera Therapeutics
Vera Therapeutics is a late clinical-stage biotechnology company focused on developing treatments for serious immunological diseases.
Our mission is to advance treatments that target the source of immunologic diseases, changing the standard of care for patients.
Our Lead Product Candidate
Atacicept, a fully humanized fusion protein, is self-administered at home as a subcutaneous weekly injection. It blocks both B-cell Activating Factor (BAFF) and A Proliferation Inducing Ligand (APRIL), which stimulate B cells to produce autoantibodies contributing to certain autoimmune diseases, including IgA nephropathy.
We are also evaluating the role of atacicept in other immunologic disorders.
Additional Developments
We are developing VT-109, a novel, next-generation dual BAFF/APRIL inhibitor in preclinical development.
MAU868, a monoclonal antibody designed to neutralize infection with BK virus, a polyomavirus that can have devastating consequences in certain settings such as kidney transplant.
Our Values
Our values inspire us every day and guide everything we do.
From how we hire great people, to advancing our mission together, to achieving our ultimate goal to improve medical treatment for patients suffering from immunological diseases.
Job Summary
The Executive Director will report to the Vice President of Commercial Strategy.
This person will lead the design and execution of new-indication and disease level strategies to advance atacicept within multiple future Glomerular Nephropathy indications.
Responsibilities
- Provide commercial opportunity assessments related to possible new indications.
- Function as the commercial champion on program teams to ensure customer needs are incorporated into the target product profile.
- Drive early brand messaging development, including collaboration with Medical Affairs and Medical Communications.
- In collaboration with internal advocacy partners, define and develop both professional and patient advocacy plans.
- Ensure key customer and patient perspectives are included in the drug development process.
- Monitor competitive intelligence for relevant new indications.
- Derive and share key customer insights with the product development team.
- Develop early lifecycle management initiatives, including follow-on indication analyses and global launch opportunities.
- Develop early pre-launch strategic commercialization plans.
- Participate in company-wide portfolio planning.
- Manage an annual budget to target.
- Create and present regular updates in various company forums.
Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree required; advanced degree in a related field preferred.
- 12 years of pharmaceutical/biotech experience, with a minimum of 5 years in global launch, market access, or marketing experience.
- Experience with global marketing or market access.
- Strong negotiating skills and the ability to develop relationships and appropriately influence all partners.
- Ability to make clear business arguments and strategic recommendations leveraging both quantitative and qualitative evidence.
- Excellent communication, negotiation, presentation, and influencing skills while addressing the needs of multiple stakeholders.
- Ability to work on multiple projects simultaneously and effectively prioritize work with a sense of urgency.
- Ability to work in a rapidly changing environment.
- Highly skilled in partnering with teams in cross-functional matrix environments.
