Scientific Director, Cardiovascular Disease

Your impact begins here As Scientific Director, Cardiovascular Disease, you will help shape the scientific strategy and early pipeline across cardiovascular disease. Working in a highly matrixed organisation, you will operate at the interface of Early Discovery, Translational Science and Medical, bringing together expertise across functions to inform portfolio priorities and project decisions.

You will lead selected cross-functional initiatives and contribute to the evaluation of external innovation and business development opportunities. By translating emerging science into clear recommendations and longer-term therapeutic area priorities, you will help advance potential new treatments for people living with cardiovascular and cardiometabolic diseases.

What you’ll bring You bring deep scientific credibility, strategic judgement, strong business acumen and the ability to influence senior stakeholders across a complex global organisation. We expect you to have:

• - A PhD, MD or equivalent scientific background within cardiovascular or cardiometabolic biology, combined with substantial experience from drug discovery, early development, portfolio strategy or related R&D roles.
• - A strong understanding of cardiovascular disease biology and the pharmaceutical value chain, with the ability to connect scientific rationale to project, portfolio and business decisions1 …