What are the responsibilities and job description for the Vice President, Head of Life Cycle Management position at Alkermes, Inc.?
Reporting directly to the Head of Medical Affairs, the VP, Head of Life Cycle Management (LCM) is a highly visible and business-critical role at Alkermes. This role is tasked with understanding the business strategies and drivers underlying our medicines for the treatment of serious mental illness, sleep disorders and our emerging neuroscience pipeline and translating those drivers into data generation plans across our programs and disease areas of interest. This individual will need to effectively collaborate and communicate with colleagues within Medical Affairs and key cross-functional partners (e.g., Commercial, Clinical Development, Clinical Operations, Regulatory Affairs, Safety, Biostatistics, Program Management, Government Affairs, Business Development), and frequently represent the function to senior management and the company to healthcare professionals.
This position is based in Waltham, MA.
Why join Team Alkermes?
Alkermes applies its deep neuroscience expertise to develop medicines designed to help people living with complex and difficult-to-treat psychiatric and neurological disorders. A fully-integrated, global biopharmaceutical company, headquartered in Ireland with U.S. locations in Massachusetts and Ohio, we are committed to pursuing great science, driven by deep compassion to make a real impact in the lives of patients. Alkermes has a portfolio of proprietary commercial products for the treatment of alcohol dependence, opioid dependence, schizophrenia and bipolar I disorder, and a pipeline of clinical and preclinical candidates in development for various neurological disorders, including narcolepsy.
Beyond our important mission of developing medicines to address unmet patient needs, we actively seek to foster a culture of diversity, inclusion and belonging throughout our business. We strive to ensure that all voices are respected and valued, recognizing that our diversity of thought, background and perspective makes us stronger. We are proud to have been recognized as an employer of choice by many national organizations, including being certified as a Great Place to Work in the U.S. in 2024, honored as a Healthiest Employer in both Ohio and Massachusetts in 2023, a Best Place for Working Parents in 2023, and to have received the Bell Seal at the Platinum level for Workplace Mental Health by Mental Health America for three consecutive years (2021-2023).
Alkermes, Inc. is an equal employment opportunity employer and does not discriminate against any qualified applicant or employee because of race, creed, color, age, national origin, ancestry, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender expression and identity, disability, genetic information, veteran status, military status, application for military service or any other characteristic protected by local, state or federal law. Alkermes also complies with all work authorization and employment eligibility verification requirements of the Immigration and Nationality Act and IRCA. Alkermes is an E-Verify employer.
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