Job Description
Telix Pharmaceuticals is a dynamic, fast-growing radiopharmaceutical company with offices in Australia (HQ), Belgium, Japan, Switzerland, and the United States. Our mission is to deliver on the promise of precision medicine through targeted radiation. At our core, we exist to create products that seek to improve the quality of life for people living with cancer and rare diseases. You will be supporting the international roll-out of our approved prostate cancer imaging agent and helping us to advance our portfolio of late clinical-stage products that address significant unmet need in oncology and rare diseases.
Job Summary
The VP, Novel Asset Advancement will serve as the executive asset owner for Telix’s CD66-targeted hematologyoncology programs, with accountability for the end-to-end strategy, advancement, and value realization of TLX66 diagnostic and therapeutic candidates through clinical development and toward registration. The position is responsible for defining and evolving the integrated asset strategy, including business case ownership, development planning, indication prioritization, and investment recommendations, while ensuring alignment with enterprise portfolio priorities. Operating as a senior individual contributor and peer to functional Vice Presidents, this role will lead cross-functional alignment and drive enterprise-level decisions, ensuring the program is strategically positioned, appropriately resourced, and executed to achieve key development, regulatory, and commercial milestones. This role is critical to advancing Telix’s first hematology-oncology product and directly impacts pipeline value, portfolio strategy, and long-term company growth.
Key Accountabilities
Serve as the executive asset owner for Telix’s CD66-targeted hematology-oncology programs, with full accountability for end-to-end asset strategy, progression, and value realization through clinical development and toward registration.
Define and continuously evolve the integrated asset strategy, including development approach, indication prioritization, target product profile, and long-range positioning aligned to enterprise portfolio priorities.
Own the integrated business case, including financial assumptions, risk-adjusted scenarios, and value inflection points, and lead executive-level recommendations on investment, prioritization, and development pathways.
Act as the primary accountable leader in executive governance forums (e.g., GET), presenting strategic options, trade-offs, and recommendations while driving enterprise decision-making and alignment.
Operate as a peer to functional Vice Presidents, leading cross-functional alignment across Clinical, Regulatory, Manufacturing, Commercial, Finance, and Quality to ensure execution of a unified and optimized development strategy.
Drive enterprise-level trade-off decisions, balancing scientific, clinical, regulatory, operational, and financial considerations to maximize probability of success and long-term asset value.
Maintain accountability for program performance, including milestone achievement, risk profile, timeline integrity, and overall readiness for key development and regulatory inflection points.
Lead identification, evaluation, and mitigation of strategic and operational risks, ensuring proactive management and clear escalation of critical issues to executive leadership.
Provide strategic financial oversight of the program, including investment planning, scenario modeling, and alignment of resource allocation with development priorities and enterprise objectives.
Ensure consistent executive-level visibility into program status, risks, opportunities, and strategic options through structured governance and performance reviews.
Influence broader portfolio strategy and lifecycle planning, including evaluation of expansion opportunities and implications for future hematology-oncology pipeline development.
Drive a high-performance cross-functional operating model, holding stakeholders accountable for delivering against shared objectives while enabling speed, clarity, and disciplined decision-making.
Position Requirements
Education and Experience:
- Advanced degree in life sciences, medicine, pharmacy, or related field required; PhD, MD, or PharmD preferred
- 15+ years of progressive pharmaceutical or biotechnology experience, including significant experience in drug development and strategic program or asset leadership
- Demonstrated experience leading complex, cross-functional development programs or assets, ideally within oncology
- Proven ability to own and advance asset strategy, including business case development, development planning, and governance engagement
- Strong understanding of global regulatory environments (FDA, EMA, APAC) and their impact on development strategy
- Demonstrated success operating as a senior individual contributor influencing executive leadership and cross-functional decision-making
- Experience presenting to and influencing executive governance bodies (e.g., executive committees, portfolio boards)
- Strong financial and strategic acumen, including investment decision support, scenario planning, and risk management
Key Capabilities
- Inclusive mindset: Demonstrate an understanding and appreciation for diversity, and actively work to create an inclusive environment where everyone feels valued and respected
- Creativity and innovation: Possess a willingness to think outside the box and come up with unique and creative solutions to challenges
- Commitment to excellence: Take pride in your work and consistently strive for excellence in everything you do
- Results-oriented: Driven to achieve goals and objectives, with a strong focus on delivering measurable results
- Ethical behavior: Act with integrity and demonstrate a commitment to ethical behavior in all interactions with colleagues and stakeholders
- Adaptability: Comfortable working in a dynamic environment, able to adjust to changing priorities, and willing to take on new challenges
- Strong communication skills: Able to communicate effectively with colleagues and stakeholders at all levels, using clear and concise language
- Collaboration: Work effectively as part of a team, actively sharing knowledge and expertise to achieve common goals
- Resilience: Demonstrate the ability to bounce back from setbacks and persevere in the face of challenges
- Continuous learning: Show a commitment to ongoing learning and professional development, continually seeking out opportunities to expand your knowledge and skills
At Telix, we believe everyone counts, we strive to be extraordinary, and we pursue our goals with determination and integrity. You will be part of an engaged and supportive group of colleagues who all have a shared purpose: to help people with cancer and rare diseases live longer, better quality lives. Being a Telix employee means being a part of a unique, global, interdisciplinary team working to deliver what’s next in precision medicine. We have hybrid and remote employees located all around the world. We offer competitive salaries, annual performance-based bonuses, an equity-based incentive program, generous vacation, paid wellness days and support for learning and development.
Telix Pharmaceuticals is an equal opportunity employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, and other legally protected characteristics.
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