Director, Commercial Project Management
Director, Commercial Project Management
The Director, Commercial Project Management is a lead position responsible for managing the day-to-day activities for new product launch projects with the objective to successfully commercialize and launch new products. The incumbent will plan project activities, timelines and identify milestones. He/she will develop end-to-end project plans that detail critical milestones, resources, timing, and roles and responsibilities. This role will work with the cross-functional commercialization project teams to achieve successful product launches. This role will be main point-of-contact between the cross-functional project team and the PMO. This role will create and maintain partnership with Brand and Sales leadership and reports into CEO, North America
Responsibilities
Qualifications
The Director, Commercial Project Management is a lead position responsible for managing the day-to-day activities for new product launch projects with the objective to successfully commercialize and launch new products. The incumbent will plan project activities, timelines and identify milestones. He/she will develop end-to-end project plans that detail critical milestones, resources, timing, and roles and responsibilities. This role will work with the cross-functional commercialization project teams to achieve successful product launches. This role will be main point-of-contact between the cross-functional project team and the PMO. This role will create and maintain partnership with Brand and Sales leadership and reports into CEO, North America
Responsibilities
- Manage all aspects of scope, resources, and timeline for the program.
- Coordinate and lead the Strategic Launch Planning Process with global alignment.
- Develop Launch plan with cross-functional teams while identifying critical gaps that the team needs to address. Understand and proactively recommend improvements in operational and go-to-market processes. Ensure strategic alignment of the plan.
- Ensures timely execution of critical tasks, milestones and deadlines. Follow-up with teams to continuously update the plan and prioritize activities as needed for the successful implementation of the project.
- Lead regularly scheduled cross-functional meetings to ensure functional deliverables are understood and timelines are on track.
- Ensure that performance metrics are defined, tracked, and reported back to leadership teams.
- Member of functional sub-teams to assure deliverables are completed on time, and dependency assessments are conducted regularly.
- Responsible for the preparation of monthly status reports for key brands.
- Lead ad-hoc business projects with global impact.
Qualifications
- Master's degree in Marketing, MIS, or Business Administration or related field required. PMP is a plus.
- 6+ years relevant Project Management experience in new product commercialization with at least 5 years in Pharmaceutical/Healthcare industry handling projects of different complexity and scope is required.
- Understanding of pharmaceutical industry along with new product development and Launch processes
- Strong Microsoft Project and Excel skills
- Product Launch experienced highly desired.
- Ability to manage multi-disciplinary teams.
- Strong organizational skills
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills
- Successful track record of delivering results through leading high performing teams.
- Experience planning multiple work-streams with cross-functional teams identifying the key dependencies, risks and actions.
- Solid understanding of project management methodology, including issue management, risk mitigation, detailed work planning, and monitoring.
- Strong understanding of supply chain process for successful commercial launch of the product.