Associate Director – Launch Strategy and Operations
| Company | Inventing for Life |
|---|---|
| Location | North Wales, PA, USA, Linden, NJ, USA |
| Salary | $139600 – $219700 |
| Type | Full-Time |
| Degrees | Bachelor’s |
| Experience Level | Senior |
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Business, Marketing, Biotechnology, or a related field.
- Minimum of 5 years of commercial experience in the biopharmaceutical or life sciences industry, with a focus on marketing, sales, or commercial operations.
- Proven ability to lead cross-functional teams, influence stakeholders, and drive strategic initiatives in a matrixed organization.
- Strong project management skills with a track record of executing complex plans across diverse functions.
Responsibilities
- Lead the creation of holistic, integrated launch plans that align with organizational objectives and market dynamics, ensuring best-in-class execution.
- Develop and implement robust market readiness frameworks, monitoring key indicators and proactively addressing challenges to ensure successful launches.
- Collaborate with global, marketing, sales, operations, market access, patient and customer experience, manufacturing, and other key functions to ensure alignment and connectivity across all launch activities.
- Establish governance structures for launch planning, tracking milestones, and escalating issues to ensure accountability and ownership of launch performance.
- Oversee the execution of launch readiness activities within our company’s launch planning tool, ensuring adherence to timelines, budgets, and resource allocation.
- Identify potential risks and interdependencies across launch workstreams, developing mitigation strategies to ensure seamless execution.
- Drive initiatives focused on enhancing launch execution processes, leveraging innovative tools and methodologies to improve efficiency and outcomes.
- Capture lessons learned and best practices from previous launches to inform future strategies and enhance US Human Health and business unit capabilities.
Preferred Qualifications
- Demonstrated success in launching new products or brands within the pharmaceutical industry, particularly in Immunology or related therapeutic areas. Experience collaborating and leading workstreams involving core capabilities a plus, immunology patient experience, go-to-market strategy, etc.
- Proficiency in utilizing data and insights to inform decision-making and optimize launch strategies.
- Familiarity with Agile practices and frameworks to enhance launch readiness and execution.