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Board Opportunity for Senior Leaders, join the Board of a Trailblazing Biotech Company

A dynamic, innovation-driven biotech company at the forefront of combatting infectious diseases is seeking to strengthen its Board of Directors with an additional member. Following a successful funding round and strategic partnerships, the company is poised for its next phase of global impact.

How you can benefit from talking to us:

  • Salary comparison, current salary to market salary
  • Understanding your career options
  • Identification of development and promotion potential
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Why This Opportunity Is Interesting for You

The Opportunity

  • We invite distinguished C-level executives and experienced board members to join our Board as a strategic partner to our leadership team. In this non-operational role, your expertise, insight and network will be vital in guiding our global strategy and ensuring our continued success in bringing transformative therapies to market.

Growth

  • As a Board member, you will play a pivotal role in shaping the company’s global growth trajectory. By providing strategic oversight and leveraging your market access expertise, you will help guide the organization as it scales its impact in combatting antimicrobial resistance and expands into new markets.

Purpose

  • Your commitment to addressing urgent global health challenges will help ensure the company remains focused on its mission to deliver transformative therapies for patients worldwide. As an advocate for patient-centric innovation, you will support the leadership in maintaining the highest standards of ethical responsibility and societal impact.

Innovator

  • Drawing on your experience in digital health, data-driven decision-making, and commercialization, you will advise on the adoption of innovative approaches and technologies. Your insights will help the company stay at the forefront of scientific and market developments, maximizing the effectiveness and reach of its therapies.

Stability

  • Your governance expertise and experience with successful funding and partnerships will be instrumental in safeguarding the company’s financial health and long-term sustainability. You will provide independent oversight on risk management, compliance, and strategic alliances, ensuring robust foundations for future growth.

Agility

  • By fostering a culture of collaboration and pragmatic decision-making at the Board level, you will help the company remain agile and responsive to evolving opportunities and challenges. Your ability to bridge diverse perspectives will support efficient, transparent governance and empower the leadership team to act decisively.

Responsibility

  • In this non-operational capacity, you will serve as a strategic partner to the executive team - offering, gravitas, strategic insights, guidance on global strategy, organizational development, and market positioning. Your influential network and advisory skills will help unlock new opportunities, while your commitment to governance excellence will uphold the company’s integrity and mission.

Your Profile

  • Board & C-Suite Experience: You have held senior executive or board positions within leading pharmaceutical or biotech organizations, ideally with a focus on anti-infectives or infectious diseases. 
  • Clinical Development, Commercialization & Market Access Leadership: You bring a proven track record of Clinical Development & launching and commercializing therapies in major markets (focus on EU), with deep expertise in pricing, reimbursement, and payer engagement.
  • Business leadership roles, including full P&L, (Licensing, M&A, strategic alliances with major Pharma Players)
  • Influential Network: You are well-connected with key decision-makers in healthcare, payers, and policy, particularly across Europe.
  • Digital Health & Data Insight: Experience with digital health, real-world evidence, or data-driven approaches in healthcare is highly valued.
  • Governance Excellence: You have a strong background in corporate governance, risk management, and have served on audit or strategy committees.
  • Personal Qualities: You are collaborative, pragmatic and motivated by the mission to address urgent global health challenges.

Ideal Backgrounds

  • C-level executives and board members from global pharmaceutical or biotech companies ideally with anti-infective portfolios.
  • Leaders in market access, or commercial strategy, or product development within innovative healthcare organizations.
  • Board directors or advisors with deep experience in infectious diseases, market access, or digital health transformation.
  • Senior partners or executives from PE/VC, M&A -or Strategy- Consulting Firms focusing on Pharma, Biotech and/or public health.

Why Join Us?

This is a rare opportunity to shape the direction of a company with a bold vision and the potential to deliver lasting impact on global health. You will become part of a passionate, high-performing team comprised of leading industry experts, renowned subject matter specialists, and influential funding partners, guided not just by economic considerations, but above all by a philanthropic mission to address the most urgent challenges in modern medicine.

 

Ready to Make a Difference?

If you are a strategic, engaged leader with a passion for innovation and a commitment to advancing healthcare, we invite you to explore this unique board opportunity.

Application & Contact

Erik Wirz
Erik Wirz
Managing Partner
wirz phone +41 44 515 02 60 wirz email erik.wirz@w-gruppe.com
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Yvonne Thoma
Yvonne Thoma
Partner
wirz phone +41 44 515 02 60 wirz email yvonne.thoma@w-gruppe.com
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*Recruitment process

In an initial interview, we will give you a detailed insight into the role, the company, the corporate culture and your development opportunities.

After an initial exchange with the partner (headhunter), you will receive further information about the role and our client's expectations. If you are interested, please send us your documents. Wirz & Partners will draw up a longlist, which will be discussed with the client. From this longlist, 4-6 candidates are selected for the shortlist.

Time to feedback: 2-3 weeks

If you make it onto the shortlist, it's on to the next round. In the interview with Wirz & Partners, we get to know you professionally and personally. You will receive further information about the client, the offering, the services, the team and the KPIs. Based on all the interviews and documents, we prepare a complete dossier about you for the client, including an executive summary. These documents form the basis for the structured interview process with the client. We prepare you for the interview.

Duration until the interview with the client: Up to two weeks.

The first meeting with the customer is about getting to know each other as equals and experiencing the gut feeling, the people and the corporate culture. This interview takes place in person at the customer's premises and lasts an average of one hour.

The second interview is about deepening professional expertise and management topics. In this exchange, you get to know the team, the strategy and the operational goals. 

You will then receive a salary proposal and an overview of the entire offer.

Duration until feedback: 1-2 weeks

Following the final meeting, a de-briefing takes place with you and the customer.

We support you in the contract negotiations and clarify further details. The contract is drawn up and we accompany the on-boarding at the customer's premises.

Duration until feedback: Up to one week

*We describe the standard process, which may vary depending on the customer.

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