Head of New Product Planning, Air

**Date**:3 Jun 2025

**Department**:AIR Franchise

**Business Area**:Mktg, Market Access, Bus. Excellence & Med. Affair

**Job Type**:Direct Employee

**Contract Type**:Permanent

**Location**:Parma, IT

**_About us_**
- Based in Parma, Italy, Chiesi is an international research-focused pharmaceutical and healthcare group with over 85 years’ experience, operating in 31 countries with more than 7,000 employees (Chiesi Group). To achieve its mission of improving people’s quality of life by acting responsibly towards society and the environment, the Group researches, develops and markets innovative drugs in its main therapeutic areas**:Discover more here**
- We are proud to to have been awarded with **B Corp Certification**, a recognition of **high social and environmental standards**. We are a **reliable** company that adopts and promotes a **transparent and ethical behavior** at all levels.
- We believe that the success of **Chiesi is built and shaped by our people and our strong set of shared Values and Behaviors**. Our people make a critical difference to our success, which is why it is vital that we attract and retain the right talent who will continue to enrich our culture by living and breathing our values and behaviors.
- We are committed to **embrace diversity, inclusion and equal opportunities.** In fact, we are a global family made up of different cultures, different genders, generations, ethnicities, abilities, sexual identities and many other enriching diversities.

**_Air and Care Franchise_**
- Within the three Business Units (Discover more here), Air and Care Franchises are responsible for the development and implementation of the Therapeutic Area Strategies. Each Franchise is organized by stage of development with fully empowered and enhanced teams of: Pipeline Development Team - focused on delivering innovation and programs leadership accountabilities in close collaboration with R&D, Commercial Portfolio Management Team - focused on maximizing the benefit for the patients and the full potential of marketed / close-to-launch assets, including Life Cycle Management strategies.
- Air and Care Franchises are also supported by the Medical Affairs, Value & Access, and Business Excellence & Customer Experience Global functions.

**_Medical Affairs, Value & Access, and Business Excellence & Customer Experience Global functions_**

Within these departments, you will actively support the Air and Care Franchises businesses. These units are responsible for the development and implementation of the Therapeutic Area Strategies. Each Franchise is organized by stage of development with fully empowered and enhanced teams of: Pipeline Development and Commercial Portfolio Management.

**_Who we are looking for_**

**Purpose**
- Reporting to the Vice President Pipeline Development AIR, the Head New Product Planning will lead the New Product Planning team to execute AIR Franchise vision and optimize pre-POC pipeline programs with market and commercial insights and assess external assets.**Main Responsibilities**
- Guided by a patient centric mindset, provide future market vision and treatment landscapes for relevant disease areas in priority markets
- Partner closely with Business Development to execute franchise pipeline strategy
- Oversee all external asset screening and due diligence for the franchise
- Refine commercial assessment and business case development methodology for pipeline assets to enable effective decision making
- Serve as the central integrator of information, insights, and perspectives from global (Marketing, Market access, Competitive intelligence, Medical affair) and regional (Region heads, affiliates) stakeholders to shape early commercialization strategy
- Collaborate with other stakeholders (e.g., Center of Innovation, Digital) to further pipeline development
- Maintain high level of competitive intelligence within responsible disease areas
- Develop team member(s) and continuously improve internal processes and methodology where needed

**Experience Required**
- Approximately 8 years Business/Commercial, Strategy or Corporate Development experience within the pharma/biotech/biopharma space
- Experience in financial modelling is required
- Consulting experience preferred
- Previous people management experience constitues a plus
- Experience in pulmonary diseases and/or rare diseases preferred
- Experience on drug development program teams preferred
- Experience in global strategic marketing highly preferred

**Education**
- BS/BA in a relevant academic field; MBA, MD, PhD, or other graduate degree strongly preferred**Soft Skills**
- Outstanding strategic thinking and problem-solving capabilities
- Proven ability to collaborate cross-functionally and to build relationships with internal and external stakeholders
- Skilled at navigating ambiguity and developing solutions in the absence of complete information
- Excellent verbal, written and executive communication skills; ability to make t