Therapy Area Director (Oncology) - Datamonitor Healthcare Company: Norstella Location: Remote, United Kingdom Date Posted: Feb 13, 2025 Employment Type: Full Time Job ID: R-887 **Description** Why Norstella? Norstella unites market-leading companies that all have a shared goal of improving patient access. Each organization (Evaluate, MMIT, Panalgo, The Dedham Group) delivers must-have answers for critical strategic and commercial decision-making. **Together, we help our clients:** + Assess the market need and competitive landscape + Know precisely which drugs to prioritize in their portfolios + Find out where the launch difficulties will be—before they’re difficulties + Track and improve market access post-launch By combining the efforts of each organization under Norstella, we can offer an even wider breadth of expertise, cutting-edge data solutions and expert advisory services alongside advanced technologies such as real-world data, machine learning and predictive analytics. At Norstella, we don’t just deliver information and insights. We deliver answers you can act on. **The Role:** The Therapy Area Director - Oncology is responsible for overseeing the production and maintenance of a portfolio of high-quality competitive analysis. Core objectives include developing Oncology portfolio plans to meet client needs, and managing a team of analysts to deliver them, liaising with colleagues across the business to support commercial targets, and maintaining therapy area and industry knowledge. Drawing on their deep therapy area expertise and experience in analyzing and forecasting disease markets, the Therapy Area Director will have responsibility for scoping and prioritizing all projects within their portfolio. This is a management role with 3-5 direct reports. The Therapy Area Director will have line management responsibility for a team of analysts, and will seek to develop their team, providing training, monitoring performance, and identifying opportunities to enable professional development. **Responsibilities:** + Define strategy and direction for the Oncology content area using industry expertise to decide upon areas of focus. + Review client queries and user stats to prioritize projects. + Execute strategy for the successful completion of the content portfolio through coordination of analyst team. + Serve as franchise owner with final responsibility for content portfolio on the site (resource & time management/checking published content/ensuring accuracy). + Anticipate and track developments in content area so to identify the resources required to deliver timely updates to content in response to key market events. + Determine scope and prioritization of future indication coverage within Oncology based on knowledge of recent and upcoming catalysts. + Author and update content and analysis as needed to ensure core therapy area portfolio is maintained and up to date. + Monitor news sources on a daily basis to identify key events within disease markets, and comment on such events in the Biomedtracker platform, if warranted. + Continuously seek to improve product offering. Remain abreast of competitor offerings and use knowledge of trending topics and clients’ needs to further develop content offering. + Work with other therapy area directors to allocate primary research (KOL) budget and prioritize usage across portfolio. **People Management and Development** + Project manage a team of professionals who are responsible for delivering a range of high value content. + Line manage team of analysts. Conduct regular performance reviews and actively support career development. Provide open, honest and constructive opinions and feedback at all times. + Coordinate and deliver training for Analysts and Senior Analysts including training on best practice, writing style, and methodologies (e.g. forecasting). Monitor individual analyst performance and deliver training on additional topics as needed. Identify opportunities to enable professional development of team members. + Communicate relevant information to direct reports in a timely manner. + Document performance related feedback (positive and negative). + Flag and escalate performance related issues in a timely manner. + Communicate with other project managers regarding progress of Analysts and what support they will need. + Discuss progress of team with other therapy area directors and offer support and advice based on own experience. + Operate within Citeline values and develop and lead a team culture that is aligned with these values. + Seek to develop own management skills utilizing available L&D resources. **Client Support** + Serve as the key point of contact for client and sales queries within the therapy area. + Possess and maintain deep knowledge of the Citeline solutions and their key personas, and be able to direct clients/sales teams to the most appropriate solution for their needs. + Confidently defend analysis and assumptions as needed, and be able to clearly explain methodologies to a variety of audiences, demonstrating the value of Datamonitor Healthcare content. + Identify where ATA could be a lead for other Citeline products or consulting and liaise with appropriate individuals to pass on the lead. + Accompany the sales team on client calls and visits as needed, in order to showcase analysis and methodologies, and gather feedback. Identify client needs and ways to better serve clients. Disseminate feedback to product team where relevant. + Assist and train direct reports on ATA best practice, developing team members to enable them to answer queries independently to a high standard. + Participate in sales training initiatives as required. **Collaboration** + Work with other Therapy Area Directors, as well as the Epidemiology Director and Lead Editor, to develop overall portfolio, manage resources, and ensure consistency. + Support sales, marketing, GTM, and custom intelligence as needed to assist with renewals, business development, and campaigns. + Proactively network with colleagues across Citeline to coordinate content production, identify opportunities to improve efficiencies, and support cross-product collaboration. + Maintain productive working relationships both within the DMHC content team and across the wider Citeline team, and encourage members of your team to development these relationships. + Possess and maintain detailed knowledge of the roles and responsibilities of team and overall organizational structure of Datamonitor Healthcare and the wider Citeline team. + Provide commentary for the Insights teams using therapy area expertise. **Requirements:** + Bachelor’s degree in Life Sciences/Biomedical sciences is preferred, but other degrees will be considered + At least 4-5 years experience at a pharmaceutical/biotech company or healthcare consulting/research firm + Substantial previous experience in producing SWOT analyses and drug/market forecasting + Deep knowledge of the drug development process and associated pharmaceutical markets + Previous experience in analyzing specific therapy area highly preferred but not required – opportunity to move across therapy areas + Previous experience of project management and development of more junior team members + Ability to influence and motivate team members + Considerable experience of presenting to clients and defending conclusions + Previous experience with data visualization and data analytics software (e.g. Tableau, Alteryx etc.) is an advantage + Excellent written and verbal English skills + Impeccable attention to detail and accuracy + Experience of collecting and curating quality data from multiple sources to produce robust and defendable conclusions. + Good organizational, time management and priority setting skills, and the flexibility to multi-task in a fast-paced environment + Ability to work collaboratively within a team both in the office and off site + Ability to perform complex data manipulations in Excel (e.g., VLOOKUP, macros) **Our guiding principles for success at Norstella** 01: Bold, Passionate, Mission-First We have a lofty mission to Smooth Access to Life Saving Therapies and we will get there by being bold and passionate about the mission and our clients. Our clients and the mission in what we are trying to accomplish must be in the forefront of our minds in everything we do. 02: Integrity, Truth, Reality We make promises that we can keep, and goals that push us to new heights. Our integrity offers us the opportunity to learn and improve by being honest about what works and what doesn’t. By being true to the data and producing realistic metrics, we are able to create plans and resources to achieve our goals. 03: Kindness, Empathy, Grace We will empathize with everyone's situation, provide positive and constructive feedback with kindness, and accept opportunities for improvement with grace and gratitude. We use this principle across the organization to collaborate and build lines of open communication. 04: Resilience, Mettle, Perseverance We will persevere – even in difficult and challenging situations. Our ability to recover from missteps and failures in a positive way will help us to be successful in our mission. 05: Humility, Gratitude, Learning We will be true learners by showing humility and gratitude in our work. We recognize that the smartest person in the room is the one who is always listening, learning, and willing to shift their thinking. **Benefits:** 25 days annual leave, 4 days for volunteering and a personal day 5% pension match Group Life Assurance (100% employer funded) Group Income Protection (100% employer funded) Other voluntary benefits such as: Dental, Cash Plan, PMI Excess Cover, Health Screening & Critical Illness Norstella is an equal opportunity employer. All job applicants will receive equal treatment regardless of race, creed, color, religion, alienage or national origin, ancestry, citizenship status, age, physical or mental disability or handicap, medical condition, sex (including pregnancy and pregnancy-related conditions), marital or domestic partner status, military or veteran status, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, genetic information, reproductive health decision making, or any other protected characteristic as established by federal, state, or local law. Sometimes the best opportunities are hidden by self-doubt. We disqualify ourselves before we have the opportunity to be considered. Regardless of where you came from, how you identify, or the path that led you here- you are welcome. If you read this job description and feel passion and excitement, we’re just as excited about you. Norstella is an equal opportunity employer. All job applicants will receive equal treatment regardless of race, creed, color, religion, alienage or national origin, ancestry, citizenship status, age, physical or mental disability or handicap, medical condition, sex (including pregnancy and pregnancy-related conditions), marital or domestic partner status, military or veteran status, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, genetic information, reproductive health decision making, or any other protected characteristic as established by federal, state, or local law.