Senior Manager, Strategy

Strategy Sr. Manager

Averon is a joint venture between CVS Health and Cardinal Health with a vision of transforming the landscape of biosimilars and simplifying the channel for specialty products. Our mission is: together, we will lower the cost of specialty products for our customers.

The Strategy Sr. Manager will collaborate to help shape the biosimilar sourcing strategy for Averon, by conducting industry and portfolio analysis; providing innovative, creative, and strategic thinking; and managing internal and external stakeholder communications. This role primarily manages the biosimilar innovator-to-biosimilar pipeline and other identified products but also supports a wide array of ongoing and ad hoc projects and analysis both strategic and quantitative in nature. The Sr. Manager will work with Averon's leadership and cross-functionally to help inform both daily biosimilar sourcing strategy and long-term decisions made by the leadership team.

Location: We are ideally targeting individuals based in Portland, Oregon (or surrounding areas), as it is our preference that this individual be willing/able to come into the office once a week to work directly with our VP/GM.

Responsibilities

Identify new revenue streams:

• Identify and evaluate emerging revenue opportunities by analyzing market trends, customer needs, and internal data assets to inform product innovation and commercialization strategies.
• Leverage cross-functional insights to uncover high-value data streams and align them with scalable product offerings that drive incremental revenue and competitive differentiation.
• Develop and execute strategies to monetize proprietary data and digital assets, translating complex datasets into actionable business models and new revenue-generating initiatives.
• Lead cross-functional initiatives to assess product-market fit and revenue potential of new offerings, integrating data-driven insights with strategic business objectives.

Support market intelligence and cross-departmental projects:

• Strategic partnership: Collaborate cross-functionally and across Averon using information sources both external (e.g., earnings insights, press releases, interviews, etc.) and internal.
• Pharma intelligence and market research: Improve and maintain repeatable solutions for providing manufacturer intelligence to the organization, prioritizing automated, self-serve approach. Monitor triggers (e.g., quarterly earnings, press releases, news reports, roadshows, completion of negotiation cycles) for information updates and own end-to-end responsibility for each kind of update.
• Gather information from internal and external sources to update manufacturer knowledge such as IPD Analytics, Evaluate Pharma, IQVIA, Medi-Span, FDA Orange and Purple Books, and more.
• Conduct secondary research (e.g., earnings calls and call transcripts, interviews and press releases) on manufacturers. Ensure cross-functional partners contribute information as aligned.
• Analyze manufacturer information and extract key insights to inform Manufacturer specific strategy.
• Formulary and market intelligence: Monitor benefit designs (e.g. formulary coverage, direct-to-health plan models) to provide the Trade Relations team with market updates on biosimilars and other identified products, supporting trade strategy and budgeting activities.
• Respond to out-of-cycle requests: Respond to ad hoc leadership requests about manufacturers and products.
• Executive presentations: Consolidate information into high-quality presentations or memos with meticulous attention to detail. Demonstrate the ability to tell a compelling story through impactful visuals and drafting notes for others to use within their meetings.

Manage biosimilar innovator-to-biosimilar pipeline portfolio:

• Oversee product and supplier-level pipeline research, industry knowledge, and report generation.
• Understand brand-to-biosimilars conversions, FDA regulatory dynamics (e.g., drug application submissions and approvals), and other market intelligence to identify pipeline opportunities.
• Collaborate with the Leadership Team to support budgeting and forecasting activities.
• Partner with Trade Relation colleagues to manage database (Salesforce) of pipeline information including building out clinical product deep dives in conjunction with product overviews.
• Compile data and information from multiple sources and translate into meaningful insights and effective communication with proposals for recommended action.
• Support research to maintain a pulse on product, supplier, regulatory, and market dynamics; understand how industry trends may impact Averon; and help develop insights for strategic action.

Qualifications

• Background as a clinician (holding an RN, MSN or PharmD - highly preferred)
• Ideally targeting individuals that also bring 2-5+ years of experience in the Pharmaceutical industry with expertise in (but not restricted to) strategy, competitive intelligence, market research, market access, corporate analysis, etc.
• Experience in consulting, strategy, business development, R&D, and/or project management (a plus)
• Demonstrated experience with competitive intelligence in the pharmaceutical sector
• Demonstrated proficiency in creating high quality executive presentations
• Results driven with proven ability to perform in a fast-paced, ever-changing environment
• Strong forecasting and analytical skills
• Excellent written and oral communication skills
• Ability to work collaboratively in a remote team environment at different organizational levels and experience working with upper-level management
• Intellectual curiosity and the hunger to be a proactive problem solver

Candidates who are back-to-work, people with disabilities, without a college degree, and Veterans are encouraged to apply. Cardinal Health supports an inclusive workplace that values diversity of thought, experience and background. We celebrate the power of our differences to create better solutions for our customers by ensuring employees can be their authentic selves each day. Cardinal Health is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, ancestry, age, physical or mental disability, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, pregnancy, veteran status, marital status, creed, status with regard to public assistance, genetic status or any other status protected by federal, state or local law.