Project Manager (Pharma)

Role Background
The Launch Project Manager will play a critical role in supporting crossfunctional pharmaceutical product launches by enabling strong execution discipline, operational rigor, and transparent reporting. This position serves as the daytoday coordination backbone for launch activities, ensuring workstreams remain aligned to timelines, decisions are tracked through completion, and leadership has timely visibility into progress, risks, and financial status.
The role partners closely with crossfunctional teams—including Commercial, Market Access, Marketing, Medical, Finance, and Operations—to collect routine status updates, maintain integrated trackers, and support structured governance through meetings, workshops, and reporting forums. By consolidating raw inputs into standardized formats and proactively flagging risks, issues, and budget variances, this role enables Vice President and Senior Director leaders to focus on strategic decisionmaking and issue resolution.
The ideal candidate brings handson experience supporting pharmaceutical Commercial launches and thrives in an executionoriented environment that values organization, followthrough, and clarity. This role is well suited for a highly detailoriented project professional with a strong understanding of launch dynamics, crossfunctional collaboration, and financial tracking in a regulated environment.
Project Manager Responsibilities
• Follows up with functional workstreams for routine status updates
• Updates/maintains multiple trackers with raw status inputs (project launch plan, RAID log, dashboards)
• Schedules and coordinates cross-functional meetings and workshops
• Prepares agendas, drafts and distributes action-oriented minutes (co-ownership)
• Follows up on action items and status updates
• Consolidates inputs into standardized formats
• Flags risks/issues for Vice President/Senior Director review
• Assists with special presentation preparation
• Manage budget, budget variance, accruals and overall quarterly spend plan with clear tracking of planned vs actuals
Ideal Candidate Profile
• Minimum of 5 years of experience supporting pharmaceutical product launches, preferably in commercial or latestage launch environments
• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Life Sciences, or a related field
• Commercial (pharma) launch experience
• Demonstrated experience maintaining integrated launch plans, RAID logs, dashboards, and budget trackers
• Proven ability to coordinate crossfunctional meetings, prepare agendas, capture actionoriented minutes, and drive followup
• Experience consolidating inputs into standardized reporting formats for senior leadership review
• Strong capability to identify and escalate risks or issues appropriately to VP/Senior Director leadership
• Handson experience with budget tracking, accruals, variance management, and quarterly spend planning
• Strong experience in Smartsheets, PowerPoint, Excel, creating pivot tables, multiple calendar coordination
• Highly organized, detailoriented, and comfortable operating in fastpaced, highvisibility launch settings

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