Associate Director SBI Portfolio (Geneva or other locations)

·       Excellent ability to lead strategic programs ·       Excellent strategic thinking and leadership abilities ·       Excellent management, negotiation, and advocacy skills ·       Excellent ability to use initiative, prioritize, multi-task, and work well under pressure to meet deadlines ·       Excellent analytical skills with ability to assimilate data, recognize key variables, analyze complex situations and lead a team to a consensus position. ·       Excellent ability to exercise a high degree of independence to ensure program delivery and explore new areas of activities ·       Very clear and systematic thinking that demonstrates strong judgment and problem-solving competencies ·       Excellent ability to interact with internal and external stakeholders ·       Excellent communication skills in multicultural, multi-lingual environments ·       Excellent communication, and public speaking skills, ability to convince and represent GARDP at high level events ·       Excellent ability to lead and motivate a team for optimum performance ·       Highly organized and structured ·       Knowledge of managing global multicultural teams Closing date for applications: 31.10.2026.

GARDP Foundation is a not-for-profit global health organization driven to protect people from the rise and spread of drug-resistant infections, one of the biggest threats to us all. By forging public and private partnerships that matter, we develop and make accessible antibiotic treatments for people who need them. The Associate Director SBI Portfolio is a key programme leadership position across the GARDP organization. This individual is responsible for the development and coordination of a portfolio of projects focused on the development and delivery of new and existing antibiotics as treatments for priority drug resistant infections aligned with the SBI disease area strategy (DAS). This position provides strategic expertise and insight into an SBI portfolio strategy and the programme and projects within the portfolio. The Associate Director operates as the cross functional Head of the SBI Portfolio with overall accountability for the strategy and execution of the multi-disciplinary R&D projects and ensuring the full alignment of the SBI access projects with the SBI programme and DAS strategies. This individual leads a programme of projects and activities including multi-disciplinary team(s) led by project leads for regulatory development and strategic public health projects with accountability for planning, coordination and oversight of all nonclinical development, clinical development, pharmaceutical and access development activities from defining  development plans through to  execution and delivery at a programme level. This role is also responsible for ensuring access activities related specifically to product availability are aligned with overall portfolio and disease area strategies.  The Associate Director SBI Portfolio as the programme lead will partner with the Head of Medical, SBI (or a Senior Medical Lead), if the the programme lead is not medically qualified, who will develop the medical scientific strategies at a Disease Area and programme level and support translation to  activities for the clinical and access development projects.. Also he/she will coordinate with the Global Access Director to ensure and support  an agreed aligned access strategy at the programme level. The Associate Director SBI portfolio will be responsible with the Directors of Business Development and Partnerships Engagement and Global Access to ensure appropriate transition of project to commercial led status both within GARDP and with our sub-license partners. This role will be the SBI portfolio representative across GARDP supporting external affairs and policy and advocacy activities Key Areas of Responsibilities: SBI  Portfolio Strategy and Development   ·       Develop and maintain a transversal SBI Disease Area strategy and support the translation to an SBI portfolio of programmes, projects and activities across R&D and Access including transition to a commercial model status.. ·       Lead the development and maintenance of respective disease area and programme strategies  with the Medical Head/Lead SBI and Global Access Director to guide both drug and access development and implementation in alignment with GARDP’s mission and objectives.   ·       Define approach to strategic coordination  and strategic decision making at the overall One SBI portfolio level ·       Lead  the cross functional evaluation of new interventions, potential assets and new project concepts for the SBI portfolio. ·       Provide SBI portfolio leadership across GARDP supporting  GARDP policy and advocacy, external affairs, communications activities ·       With the Medical Head communicate and integrate the SBI disease area strategy internally within GARDP and externally with key stakeholders, partners and networks. ·       Support the development of  an external SBI advocacy plan with Head of Medical SBI, Global Access Director, External affairs and Executive office. ·       Agree and implement with respective directors, at a project by project basis, transition points for projects from development led to either access and/or commercial model led. SBI Programme and Project Leadership  ·       Develop drug development and access development (with Global Access)strategies at the programme level   for implementation in specific clinical and access led projects.  ·       Responsible with the Head of Medical for agreeing a scientific strategic direction and oversight of the projects within a programme. ·       Ensure pharmaceutical development to final drug product manufacture strategies are developed and implemented to meet both regulatory  and GARDP access objectives. ·       Support cross-over and synergy across projects where appropriate. ·       Provide a framework for project leaders for successful project planning and execution while providing clarity on level of decision making and accountability for project and programme  governance. ·       Line manage a team of R&D project leaders to design and execute drug/treatment development projects and oversight of Access-Led projects to support objectives agreed with the Global Access Director ·       Ensure the appropriate input from R&D to Access Led SBI projects and review access led project strategies and plans to ensure an integrated access to development model and alignment with agreed SBI disease area and portfolio/programme strategy. ·       Set up and oversee all programme and project leadership, management and reporting  systems with the respective project leader, project managers and Head of Portfolio Management. ·       Accountable for overall programme and specific project governance requests and reviews with GARDP Monthly Performance Review (GMPR) and directly with R&D Director ·       Oversee the programme related preparations and interactions with the Scientific advisory committee (SAC) and ensure project team regular interactions with assigned SAC members ·       Works with Head of Portfolio Management  and finance to forecast,