Pharma Commercial Launch Manager

Role
Background
The Launch
Project Manager will play a critical role in supporting cross‑functional
pharmaceutical product launches by enabling strong execution discipline,
operational rigor, and transparent reporting. This position serves as the day‑to‑day
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 cross‑functional 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 decision‑making and issue resolution.
The ideal
candidate brings hands‑on experience supporting pharmaceutical Commercial
launches and thrives in an execution‑oriented environment that values
organization, follow‑through, and clarity. This role is well suited for a
highly detail‑oriented project professional with a strong understanding of
launch dynamics, cross‑functional 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 late‑stage 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 cross‑functional meetings, prepare agendas, capture action‑oriented minutes, and drive follow‑up
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
Hands‑on 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, detail‑oriented, and comfortable operating in fast‑paced, high‑visibility launch settings

Work arrangement
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