Executive Director, Launch Excellence

About the role

The Head of Launch Excellence will be responsible for driving best-in-class launch capabilities and ensuring successful commercialization of pipeline assets. This role will establish and lead Launch Excellence throughout the organization, as well as provide ongoing support/planning for the launches of multiple therapeutic options in the US.

Responsibilities

• Develop agile launch strategies to accelerate launch planning, cross-functional team execution and integrated resource planning in alignment with the global launch ambition.
• Develop and drive the launch management framework for the organization.
• Lead launch reviews with the cross-functional brand team against key launch milestones and objectives by the pre-launch stage.
• Partner with leadership across all functional areas, including medical and marketing leadership to ensure there is strategic alignment across product launch teams.
• Demonstrate leadership by influencing, coordinating, and partnering across core and interfacing workstream leadership to ensure launch readiness.
• Develop and implement launch metrics and tracking mechanisms to monitor progress and impact of product launch, providing insights to support decision-making and drive continuous improvement.
• Ensure teams meet or exceed their launch readiness goals by providing strong cross-functional support and management, driving decision making, facilitating issue resolution, problem-solving, risk management, contingency planning, and decision-making.
• Establish and oversee launch excellence frameworks, tools, and methodologies (including Global and US launch playbook) across the organization to ensure asset, market, and enterprise readiness.
• Establish processes and governance structure to support new launches and market readiness.
• Drive Pre-Launch and Post-Launch performance assessments to gather learnings and drive continuous improvement. Capture lessons learned and best practices to apply to future brands and launches, evolving the launch playbook.
• Proactively raise risks within the brand/launch plan to brand and marketing leads, other functional leaders, and VP. Uses business and launch expertise to inform risk mitigation strategies and assess potential resourcing needs.
• Lead through ambiguity and change management needed within brand and other functions as necessary to overcome obstacles and achieve launch success.
• Serve as a connection point between the Global and Regional launch teams and US launch team, staying engaged with launch progress and risks and sharing launch lessons across groups.

Requirements

You have a BA/BS in Business, Marketing, General Management, Biotechnology, or related field. You also have a minimum 15 years of commercial experience in one or more the following functions within the biopharmaceutical/pharmaceutical, biotechnology or lifesciences consulting industries: marketing, product launches, strategy, commercial operations, or related function.