SPD Launch Excellence Lead
$154,400–$242,550 year
On-siteCambridge, Massachusetts, United States
Job Summary
Harmonize and update enterprise launch excellence frameworks, processes, and templates to reflect evolving stakeholder and market needs. Oversee the release schedule for the Launch Excellence Platform, prioritizing features across multiple stakeholders to ensure an industry-leading tool. Lead training, rollout, and onboarding for the platform while managing operational components of the Brand Planning process, including technology, logistics, and repositories. Own the SPD Brand Planning Process to ensure robust strategies for pipeline assets and lead the Launch Readiness Review forum. Build relationships with key stakeholders across SPD, IBU, and USBU while developing an external network to benchmark industry approaches to Brand Planning and Launch Excellence.
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree
- 5+ years in pharmaceutical, biotech, or life sciences strategy consulting industry
- inclusive of at least two different types of cross-functional roles/experience
- 3+ years' experience within the commercial space of pharmaceutical, biotech, or life sciences strategy consulting industry
- inclusive on both pre-launch and in-line experience
- Track-record of working on successful launches within the pharma/biotech space (1 or more)
- Experience leading complex projects requiring global and local alignment
- Knowledge of marketing strategy and new product commercialization
- inclusive of pre-launch activities
- Strong ability to simplify complex concepts & strategies and to 'tell a story' orally and in writing
- Strong influencing skills
- the ability to exercise tact and diplomacy in stressful situations
- Proficient with MS Office Suite
- Teams
- SharePoint
- project management software
- Understanding of pharmaceutical development
- regulatory requirements
- commercial launch excellence
- Understanding of essential global launch activities across key areas in cross-functional program team
- Exceptional planning and organizational abilities to manage competing priorities
Desired Qualifications
- Advanced degree, i.e., MBA, PhD, MA
- Multilingual capabilities
- Global Experience
- Experience with global launches
- Brand Management at country level
- Project Management Certification
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