Director, Neuroscience Strategy - Corporate Business Strategy Office
Posted Oct 1, 2026 · We last checked this listing on Oct 6, 2026
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About your past
Walk me through a consulting project where your analysis changed a client's direction.
What they are checking: Whether their consulting work has actually changed a client's direction, which shows analysis that drives decisions rather than just reports.
Tell me about presenting a strategy to executives who pushed back hard.
What they are checking: Whether they stay composed and persuasive when executives challenge their work hard, which strategy roles require regularly.
How do you lead a cross-functional team where no one reports to you?
What they are checking: Whether they can lead teams without authority through clarity and trust, since strategy work depends on many contributors outside their control.
What would you do
Discovery and Commercial disagree on which disease area to prioritize. How do you bring them together?
What they are checking: Whether they can bring functions with different priorities to a shared decision, using evidence and facilitation rather than authority.
How do you manage several complex initiatives at once without losing quality?
What they are checking: Whether they have practical ways to manage several complex initiatives at once while keeping quality high and deadlines met.
How do you know when a strategy recommendation is ready to bring to senior leaders?
What they are checking: Whether they have clear standards for when analysis is solid enough to present, since premature recommendations erode credibility with senior leaders.
About the work
How would you build a long-range therapeutic area strategy for neuroscience?
What they are checking: Whether they can build a structured long-range strategy for a whole therapeutic area, connecting science, market and portfolio choices.
What do you see as the biggest opportunities and risks in neuroscience drug development right now?
What they are checking: Whether they have an informed view of neuroscience's risks and opportunities, since the field has high failure rates and real promise.
How would you evaluate an external opportunity, like a licensing deal, against internal programs?
What they are checking: Whether they can compare external opportunities and internal programs on consistent terms, which is central to sound portfolio strategy.
How do you build a disease area strategy that sits above any single brand?
What they are checking: Whether they can think at the disease area level, above individual brands, which shapes long-term direction for the portfolio.
What data sources and analyses would you use to size a neuroscience market?
What they are checking: Whether they know which data sources and methods give a credible market size, since sizing errors can mislead major investment choices.
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