Responsibilities

• Cross-Functional Collaboration & Planning: Help the Sr Dir to foster early strategic alignment across cross-functional teams including marketing, market access, and medical teams and to ensure a cohesive approach to early product commercialization. Collaborate with global commercial teams and ensure input to asset planning across other key NNI stakeholders
• Early Commercialization Strategy: Contribute to early commercialization strategy development to maximize asset value and market penetration, leveraging global products and insights, insights from clinical trials, and market research. Collaborate with marketing, market access, and medical affairs teams to develop early brand positioning, priority customer segments, messaging, and go-to-market strategies and input into evidence generation plans before the product is transitioned to the launch team
• Market Assessment and Opportunity Analysis: Assist completion of thorough market assessments and opportunity analyses to identify target patient populations, unmet needs, and competitive positioning strategies
• Target Product Profile (TPP) Development Support: Provide support for clinical trial strategy, regulatory development, and the development of Target Product Profiles (TPPs) to ensure alignment with commercialization goals. Gather input from clinical and regulatory teams to understand clinical data / patient outcomes, identify market opportunities, address regulatory requirements, and help to shape product development strategies
• Regulatory Compliance: Ensure early commercialization strategies comply with regulatory guidelines and industry standards, working closely with regulatory affairs teams to address any compliance-related issues
• Commercialization Transition: Support facilitation of the smooth transition of products from clinical development into commercialization at the time the launch planning process begins. Ensure continuity of market research and therapy area knowledge, decision processes, and early strategy from early development phases to commercialization efforts, maintaining alignment with overarching brand strategies
• Knowledge Transfer and Pull-Through: Assist in facilitating knowledge transfer between early commercial and marketing brand/therapy area teams, ensuring key insights, learnings, and strategic considerations are effectively communicated and incorporated into commercialization plans. Work with cross-functional teams to pull through clinical insights, patient profiles, and early competitive positioning strategies into launch commercialization efforts to maximize product potential
• Project Management and Coordination Support: Assist project management efforts to coordinate transition between clinical development and commercialization teams, ensuring milestones are met. Identify and flag potential risks or challenges during the transition process, proactively addressing issues to minimize disruptions and ensure continuity of product development efforts
• Continuous Improvement and Optimization: Aid continuous improvement initiatives to optimize the product transition process, implementing best practices, tools, and methodologies to streamline workflows and enhance efficiency

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree
• 7+ years of experience, including product marketing, product management, or market research / insights & analytics within the pharmaceutical industry
• Demonstrated success in early commercial planning, launching, and managing products
• Knowledge of pharmaceutical regulatory requirements and experience interacting with regulatory agencies
• Proven knowledge of the pharmaceutical industry, including competitive market dynamics, and trends, especially within preferred
• Strategic mindset with ability to develop and execute innovative commercial strategies aligned with NNI objectives and market opportunities
• Strong planning and organizational skills with high attention to detail and proven track record of results and follow up
• Ability to manage complexity, including the management of work across competing priorities
• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills, with ability to influence senior leaders and collaborate with cross-functional teams across the organization
• Project management skills, with the ability to lead and coordinate complex initiatives involving multiple stakeholders

Preferred

• Master’s degree preferred

Benefits

• Employees are also eligible to participate in Company employee benefit programs including medical, dental and vision coverage; life insurance; disability insurance; 401(k) savings plan; flexible spending accounts; employee assistance program; tuition reimbursement program; and voluntary benefits such as group legal, critical illness, identity theft protection, pet insurance and auto/home insurance. The Company also offers time off pursuant to its sick time policy, flex-able vacation policy, and parental leave policy.