# Head of Portfolio Strategy & Management, CVRM

**Company**: Biopharmaceuticals Portfolio & Project Management
**Location**: Gaithersburg, Maryland, United States of America
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Healthcare

**Apply**: https://astrazeneca.eightfold.ai/careers/job/563877690008835
**Canonical**: https://yubhub.co/jobs/job_3f1ff6a2-654

## Description

As the Head of Portfolio Management for the Cardiovascular, Renal and Metabolism (CVRM) Therapeutic Area, you will work collaboratively with the Therapeutic Area Leadership team to develop and implement the TA Strategy for the CVRM TA team within BioPharma.

You will proactively drive strategic engagement with senior leaders across R&D and Commercial to ensure an end-to-end approach from research through early and late-stage development in delivering a compelling and differentiated strategy for our CVRM portfolio, which covers ~50 projects across 6 core areas of focus.

Key responsibilities include partnering with the cross-functional Therapeutic Area Leadership Team to drive development of the overall CVRM strategy for AstraZeneca, ensuring the portfolio is prioritized and scenarios around prioritization, risk, and value are considered.

You will also develop deep understanding of key issues within the TA and ensure the CVRM project and portfolio team effectively uses decision-making tools and portfolio assessment/analytics to clarify complex project, product, and portfolio issues.

In addition, you will work directly with GPT and commercial brand teams as needed to enhance strategic plans and support portfolio perspective, understanding governance expectations, technical/risk reviews, helping teams to have successful interactions with TALT and corporate governance.

The ideal candidate will have a BA/BSc degree or equivalent, significant experience (8+ years) in healthcare consulting, banking, or other strategic roles in the biopharma industry, a passion for science, and strong strategic thinking, decision-making, and problem-solving skills.

You will be required to understand and apply a broad range of decision-making and data analytics tools, plus look at opportunities to optimise ways of working in alignment with the broader enterprise.

At AstraZeneca, you will be supported by individuals who possess outstanding knowledge and work in close partnership with one another. Agile and collaborative, we work cross-functionally to succeed as one.

This is a place of great passion and pride where we build successful, inclusive, and diverse teams that collaborate across the enterprise and beyond.

We strive for better by encouraging new ideas and embracing failure as part of our innovation process.

Our culture of recognition and reward means we feel supported and empowered to take initiative.

With all the tools you need to succeed, including constructive coaching, there’s no better place to take ownership of your career.

Ready to make a difference? Apply now!

## Skills

### Required
- strategic thinking
- decision-making
- problem-solving
- enterprise leadership
- influencing
- communication
- analytical skills
- organisational skills
- teamwork
- data analytics