Director, Launch and Commercial Excellence LACan

Novartis AG • East Hanover, NJ

137d • $185,500 - $344,500

About The Position

The Launch and Commercial Excellence lead will champion and gatekeep the launch readiness strategy and commercial excellence regional ambition, leveraging strong commercial excellence capabilities while helping to co-ordinate the execution of commercial plans and growth initiatives across the regional team and region. This role demands a strategic and dynamic leader capable of driving integration of insights into decision making, excellence in execution and enterprise mindset to ensure alignment with the overall regional business objectives.

Requirements

• Experienced in product launches within the pharma industry.
• 10+ years pharmaceutical experience in Commercial and/or Marketing.
• Leading large and/or diverse multi-functional teams.
• Brand Management at country level.
• Project Management.
• Sales / marketing leadership.
• Operations Management and Execution.
• Superior communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to influence and engage stakeholders at all levels.
• Embraces and drives change, continually seeking ways to improve and innovate.
• Results-Oriented: Focused on achieving measurable outcomes and delivering value to the business.
• Strong financial and business acumen.
• Fosters an Enterprise-first culture / mindset.
• Demonstrates high emotional intelligence, connects cross-divisionally to build alignment.

Responsibilities

• Lead patient trackers and commercial metrics at regional level, guiding and coaching Country organizations to achieve the expected outcomes.
• Build strategic functional commercial capability plan and implement within commercial function.
• Deliver tactical and strategic analyses for the portfolio based on business intelligence.
• Oversee regional performance, market share and integrated business insights, strengthening a data-driven decision-making culture.
• Deploy VoC strategy and integration into commercial KPIs.
• Design, coordinate, support commercial business decisions.
• Support countries to strengthen their smart analytics capabilities to enable ICE WoW.
• Establish and harmonize launch excellence WoW across region for both market archetypes (large and midsize).
• Drive the Launch Readiness review agenda across the region.
• Support the NPP community across LaCan.
• Represent LaCan in international launch committee to ensure strategic alignment.
• Lead the One Brand planning governance and implementation.
• Facilitate OBP adaptations to reflect country needs and dynamics while ensuring full compliance to CLS framework.
• Partner with local and regional TAHs to identify opportunities of cross-country collaborations.
• Role model and foster the culture that empowers with accountability, enables collaborations, and drives performance as ONE regional team.

Benefits

• Sign-on bonus
• Restricted stock units
• Discretionary awards
• Full range of medical benefits
• 401(k) eligibility
• Various paid time off benefits, such as vacation, sick time, and parental leave

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Industry: Chemical Manufacturing
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees