Job Title:  Associate Directo Portfolio & NPL South

Role Details

The Associate Director, Portfolio & NPL Head,South Europe Hub is responsible to deliver business growth through strategic and operational management of the entire Portfolio & New Product Launch (NPL) strategy and activities within the hub in close alignment with EMENA Portfolio Director and Countries. The scope of the role includes:

• Development and execution of hub portfolio and new launch strategy, initiatives and projects.
• Leading portfolio growth, optimisation and life cycle management initiatives supporting the growth of Accord across different businesses/verticals.
• Driving the new product launch team, cross functional workstreams (commercial, medical affairs, product development, regulatory affairs, R&D and marketing) and processes to successfully launch new generics and speciality brands in the region within timescales and right first time.

Portfolio:

• In close alignment with BD and NPL, evaluate new opportunities for addition into hub pipeline, track developments and propose/evaluate suitable opportunities for financial assessment via business cases (BC).
• Deliver BC financial assessments for new pipeline opportunities, providing quantitative and qualitative feedback plus market intelligence when necessary and within agreed timescales.
• Identify new business opportunities (with support from stakeholders) incorporating In-House, In-License, acquisition, distribution or local deals where relevant.
• Deliver business growth by providing recommendations for pipeline candidates and new business opportunities via the Make It Better process.
• Analyse portfolio by completing optimisation reviews, delivering clear recommendations and outcomes.
• Collaborate cross functionally (commercial, medical affairs, product development, regulatory affairs, R&D and marketing) ensuring alignment on portfolio growth, optimisation strategies and commercial opportunities.
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New Product Launch:

• Lead development, maintenance and revision of launch excellence program ensuring launch success.
• Lead new product launch team and cross functional workstreams from opportunity assessment to execution of launch plans right first time.
• Understand market objectives of each launch, identifying risk and critical success factors, develop, align and execute launch and market access plans.
• Create launch plans employing detailed analysis of critical success factors, understanding market requirements, regulatory, quality, supply limitations and opportunities.
• Align launch plans with relevant stakeholders and update plans according to changes in market condition or product readiness ensuring execution according to plan.
• Ensure readiness in market for each product launch including system set up, local regulatory / pricing / quality activities.

• Responsible for successful development and execution of hub portfolio and new launch strategy, operations and initiatives.
• Lead, manage and develop direct reports to deliver on organisational targets.
• Represent Portfolio and NPL within the hub management team.
• Ensure systems are used, all trackers are updated correctly and all relevant processes are followed, suggesting opportunities for continuous process improvement.
• Deliver non-silo cross-functional working across multiple teams, assisting with ad-hoc requests and supporting hub head to deliver world class Portfolio and NPL business.
• Ensure constant reporting and progress updates are provided to Hub LT, BD, EMENA Portfolio and NPL

The Role

• Drive for Results: Can be counted on to exceed goals successfully; is constantly and consistently one of the top performers; very bottom-line oriented; steadfastly pushes self and others for results.
• Managerial Courage: Doesn't hold back anything that needs to be said; provides current, direct, complete, and "actionable" positive and corrective feedback to others; lets people know where they stand; faces up to people problems on any person or situation (including direct reports) quickly and directly; is not afraid to take negative action when necessary.
• Process Management: Good at figuring out the processes necessary to get things done; knows how to organize people and activities; understands how to separate and combine tasks into efficient workflow; knows what to measure and how to measure it; can see opportunities for synergy and integration where others can't; can simplify complex processes; gets more out of fewer resources.
• Decision Quality: Makes good decisions (without considering how much time it takes) based upon a mixture of analysis, wisdom, experience, and judgment; most of his/her solutions and suggestions turn out to be correct and accurate when judged over time; sought out by others for advice and solutions.
• Matrix Management: Lead alignment and communication on agreed goals and progress across the matrix.
• People Development: Ensure appropriate coaching to direct reports and that individual development plans are in place.

• Substantial experience of 3 - 5 years + in EU and/or Global Pharmaceutical markets.
• A track record of accomplishments in Portfolio, Launch Management, Marketing or Sales at an operational and strategic level demonstrating commercial awareness.
• Demonstrable evidence of project and process management including portfolio maintenance, launch excellence, project lifecycle and requirements analysis alongside use of project planning tools.
• Market access knowledge on at least one of the countries within the hub.

The Person

Pharmaceutical Degree level qualification or a Master’s Degree preferably within Life Sciences and/or Business/International Business.

English fluency is essential.

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