Director, Strategic Planning
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Job Description
Responsibilities:
Build enterprise mindset across US Market’s Oncology, Vaccine, Pharma and Rare Disease business units.
Embed consistent launch operation capabilities throughout the organization.
Partner with Global Launch Excellence, Commercial Leadership and Marketing
Leadership to ensure strategic alignment and transparency across enterprise-wide product launch teams.
Strategically partner with New Product Leaders, Marketing Leaders, and BU CMOs to identify critical functional preparation based on launch archetype.
Develop agile launch strategies and methods to accelerate cross-functional team execution.
Lead, manage and develop launch planners.
Partner with senior management, key stakeholders, and teams on how to deliver commercial and customer impact.
Partner with Marketing to develop strategic opportunity spaces and distill strategic opportunities into actionable execution plans.
Co-develop the business unit commercial agility roadmap by partnering with Business Unit Leaders, Marketing Leaders, and interfacing COEs.
Partner with Marketing and cross-functional partners on facilitating Quarter Business Review and Objectives and Key Results.
10% domestic travel required.
Requirements:
Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in Biotechnology, General Management, Business, Marketing, or a related field and 5 years of experience in the position offered or related.
Must have 5 years of experience with the following: working in Pharmaceutical Commercial industry, specifically in either Marketing, Sales, Strategy & Planning, or Commercial Operations; collaborating with senior leaders and across a broad group of stakeholders on complex projects; and executing marketing or commercial business initiatives across a broad group of stakeholders such COEs, strategic partners, marketing leaders and executive sponsors.
Must have worked on at least two (2) pharmaceutical product launches or pharmaceutical indication launches.
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