About The Position
Medisca is a global company leveraging strong partnerships to serve healthcare professionals across diverse wellness disciplines. Offering extensive and essential solutions - including pharmaceutical ingredients and service, mixing technology manufacturing, analytical testing, and education – Medisca is bridging the gaps in healthcare with an unwavering commitment to precision, innovation, and societal impact. The Director, Product Strategy – API & Excipient Bases leads product strategy for a specialized portfolio focused exclusively on active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs); Peptides and base excipients used in the pharmaceutical industry. This role drives commercialization priorities, lifecycle decisions, and cross-functional execution alignment to ensure market relevance, operational efficiency, compliance, and sustainable growth.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Business, Marketing, Engineering, or related field; Master's degree preferred.
- Ten (10) years of proven leadership experience in product management, portfolio strategy, or commercial leadership, preferably within pharmaceutical ingredients, excipients, finished dosage forms, or compounding-related categories.
- Deep understanding of product lifecycle management frameworks, with a track record of establishing and optimizing processes for enhanced efficiency.
- Exceptional strategic thinking, analytical skills, and successful experience in product launches and commercial strategy execution.
- Strong leadership, communication, and team-building capabilities, enabling effective collaboration and motivation across cross-functional teams.
- Strong knowledge of the API, excipient, and compounding market, including customer needs, competitive landscape, and applicable quality and regulatory considerations.
- Hands-on experience in the pharmaceutical industry, including exposure to finished dosage products, product launches, lifecycle management, and cross-functional coordination across regulatory, quality, supply chain, and commercial teams.
- Knowledge of the Microsoft Office suite (Word, Outlook, Teams and Excel) required
Responsibilities
- Drive the development and execution of commercial strategies for the API, excipient, and base portfolio used in compounding, ensuring alignment with organizational objectives, market needs, and revenue targets.
- Apply technical competence and knowledge base gained from past experiences to generate new ideas that lead to innovative and proprietary products.
- Stay abreast of industry trends, competitor activities, and market changes. Leverage this intelligence to position our products competitively in the market.
- Translate portfolio strategy into executable plans that align commercial priorities with regulatory requirements, supply readiness, and operational constraints.
- Define and manage the portfolio of APIs and excipient bases for compounding, overseeing the assessment of existing products and identifying opportunities for expansion, rationalization, or innovation.
- Create category vision and product roadmaps for APIs, excipient and bases in the compounding segment; lead lifecycle management from concept and evaluation through launch, optimization, and portfolio maintenance.
- Establish and continuously improve scalable product lifecycle and commercialization frameworks to enhance speed, accountability, and cross-functional coordination from concept through lifecycle management.
- Collaborate closely with R&D, quality, regulatory, supply chain, marketing, and sales to optimize the API, excipient and base portfolio for compounding applications and ensure market relevance, quality, and compliance.
- Drive cross-functional alignment across key stakeholders to ensure timely delivery of portfolio initiatives and resolution of operational bottlenecks.
- Act as a senior point of alignment for cross-functional execution barriers, facilitating timely resolution of issues impacting product development, launch, or lifecycle decisions through stakeholder engagement and leadership escalation when required.
- Develop and implement forecasting models to predict market demand, sales trends, and inventory needs. Collaborate with supply chain and production teams to optimize inventory levels and meet customer demand.
- Collaborate with the sales, marketing, and training teams to develop tools, training, and resources that empower the sales force to effectively communicate product value propositions.
- Conduct in-depth market analyses, gather insights, and leverage market trends to drive product innovation and improvement initiatives.
- Establish and monitor key performance indicators (KPIs) to evaluate the effectiveness of commercial initiatives. Make data-driven recommendations for continuous improvement.
- Continuously evaluate product performance, pricing strategies, and market positioning to drive revenue growth and market share expansion.
- Monitor and optimize portfolio and commercialization performance through KPI governance, stakeholder accountability, and resolution of execution barriers to support revenue and market share growth.
- Lead and mentor a high-performing team, fostering a culture of innovation, collaboration, and excellence.
Benefits
- 37.50 hour workweek with early Fridays all year long
- PTO and vacation policy
- Choice of modular health plans
- Health spending account
- Free Telemedicine
- Hybrid work schedule
- Home office reimbursement program
- Opportunities to learn and grow within Medisca
- Medisca contributes to a deferred profit sharing plan (DPSP) when you invest in RRSPs
- Employee Referral Program
- Free parking/accessible by public transportation
- Company events throughout the year
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Director
