Director / Manager – Digital Therapeutics

12 months FTC Europe or USA based (Hybrid) Competitive package + Benefits

If you are a professional with experience in Digital Therapeutics (DTx) and regulated healthcare technology,then we want to hear from you!

Join us to help improve peoples’ lives and make healthcare better for everyone!

About Pharmanovia

Pharmanovia is developing a range of digital therapeutics to meet unmet medical needs in the chronic diseases it serves. Pharmanovia’s goal is to enhance the patient experience through providing regulated combinations of medicine and software working together to change behaviours, improve adherence and empower self-care, while better informing doctors with real-time patient data.

Pharmanovia is a dynamic, fast-growing international pharmaceutical company with a portfolio of over 20 brands across more than 140 markets. Our mission is to improve patient health globally through the revitalisation of niche, tried-and-trusted medicines.

Pharmanovia is developing a range of digital therapeutics to meet unmet medical needs in the chronic diseases it serves. Pharmanovia’s goal is to enhance the patient experience through providing regulated combinations of medicine and software working together to change behaviours, improve adherence and empower self-care, while better informing doctors with real-time patient data. An example of this type of collaboration is Pharmanovia’s recent co-development announcement with CLM: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20230517005459/en/Closed-Loop-Medicine-and-Pharmanovia-enter-a-co-development-partnership-for-precision-medicine-combination-therapeutics

Our Core Behaviours Are

• We give back to our communities.
• We reinvest in our future – in our products, our brands and our people.
• We value our heritage and foster an entrepreneurial spirit.
• We keep our promises and do as we say.
• We act decisively but we never compromise on quality.

Since its inception in 2013, Pharmanovia has grown consistently year on year, focusing on delivering high-quality branded prescription medicines to patients, prescribers, and healthcare providers across the world. Our growth has enabled the company to reinvest in its products, brands, people, and to give back to its communities. A people business with a strong, supportive culture that encourages innovation and entrepreneurial spirit, our team comprises over 300 employees and 29 nationalities, operating from offices in the UK, Denmark, Netherlands, Switzerland, U.A.E., India, Singapore, Italy, and South Korea.

We are an agile and imaginative global specialty pharma business and a preferred partner for innovator pharma companies, instigating a paradigm shift in the life cycle management of iconic medicines. We seek to extensively engage with clinical communities to communicate product improvements and prioritise environmental, social, and governance considerations across the business and workforce.

Pharmanovia’s therapeutic areas include Cardiovascular, Oncology, Endocrinology and Neurology.

The Role

This is a new senior leadership role responsible for the delivery of all Digital Therapeutics activities within the Pharmanovia group.

Primary Objectives Of The Role Will Be

• Co-ordination of internal and external experts: e.g. commercial/marketing, scientific affairs and regulatory
• Reimbursement and market access discussions
• Drive delivery across key challenges for the business in Pharmanovia:
• Regulatory conversations and submissions related to first in class digital therapeutics
• Project management of digital therapeutics, regulated software-as-a-medicine and hardware (e.g. wearable integration) patient facing innovations
• Clinical requirements, including bibliographic evidence, real world evidence (RWE) and distributed clinical trials

Secondary objectives of the role will be:

• Co-ordination of early-stage evaluations of potential new technologies and digital health innovator partners, to validate opportunities
• Development and management of clearly articulated product development plans with input from relevant functions
• Developing business cases and commercial go-to-market strategies for digital therapeutics, leveraging internal and external expert resource
• Building and leading a specialised team over time to include a broad skillset for digital therapeutics including digital product development, regulatory (digital and drug), partnering, commercialisation, biostatistics, medical, clinical development (real world evidence/clinical study design and execution), data science, market access, medical writing, and project management
• Attendance at conferences and events to drive perception of Pharmanovia as a thought leader and pioneer in digital health
• Validation of Target Product Profiles with KOLs, payers and/or patient groups in liaison with medical

This role will report into the company’s Chief Digital Officer.

The Digital Therapeutics Team is a new function within the business that the candidate will have the opportunity to create and shape.

You will have an excellent opportunity for cross functional project collaboration covering all areas of our rapidly growing business. Specific development plans will be created to develop the candidate’s project management, technical and managerial skills as part of the role. You will have relevant experience in digital health, and a good working understanding of navigating the complex evolving commercial, regulatory, reimbursement and clinical environment around digital health.

The department has an ethos of continuous improvement, refining systems and creating efficiencies. This, along with the rapid growth of the business, leads to a varied and dynamic working environment.

Main Responsibilities

• Oversight of all digital health projects to ensure delivery in-line with agreed timelines and objectives.
• Act as Subject Matter Expert where required on digital health matters
• Liaise with CDO to support definition & build of strategy in digital health.
• Recruit & manage new team members and provide daily oversight and long-term development plans.
• Reporting of activities to monthly Digital Projects Steering Committee
• Organisation of project-specific meetings and maintenance of appropriate project tracking tools and platforms (RAID Log, Gannt Charts, RAG status etc)
• Plan long-term organisational structure and roadmap for Digital Therapeutics
• Run regular business reviews to understand business issues can be tackled with innovative digital health.
• Ensure knowledge is up to date on latest developments in digital health space that could be applicable to Pharmanovia.
• Implement and maintain robust project assessment process
• Alignment and oversight of digital therapeutics budget and workload to ensure sufficient inter-departmental visibility of upcoming projects to allocate resources (headcount & spend) to meet the forward schedule of change
• Organisation of Change and Release with appropriate SME assignment and collision detection.
• Project owner for all Digital Health innovations, including Digital Therapeutics, Wearables and regulated technology integrations

About you:

• Knowledge of drug / medical device development and common project management methodologies desirable
• High level of spoken and written English
• A strong leader / contributor who can work independently to achieve goals
• Team player who can build rapport with colleagues and partners from around the world
• Scientific rigour in your approach to problem solving
• Experience in regulated digital healthcare, understanding of digital therapeutics
• Great communicator both verbally and in writing
• Demonstrated project management skills
• Strong MS Excel, PowerPoint skills
• Keen interest in new and existing digital technologies

This is a full time, permanent position. There is a requirement to travel for project specific duties.

In Return

We offer a competitive salary plus bonus and rewards package including holiday, health & wellbeing program, employee recognition awards, social events, pension scheme and hybrid working.