Vice President, New Product Planning & Launch Excellence

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United As One for Patients, our purpose in Healthcare is to help create, improve and prolong lives. We develop medicines, intelligent devices and innovative technologies in therapeutic areas such as Oncology, Neurology and Fertility. Our teams work together across 6 continents with passion and relentless curiosity in order to help patients at every stage of life. Joining our Healthcare team is becoming part of a diverse, inclusive and flexible working culture, presenting great opportunities for personal development and career advancement across the globe.
This role does not offer sponsorship for work authorization. External applicants must be eligible to work in the US.
Your Role:
The Senior Director, US New Product Planning & Launch Excellence will shape the commercial foundation for future pipeline launches and strengthen the organization’s launch excellence capabilities. This high-impact role requires a strategic, commercially minded leader with experience in both US Commercial and global teams.
The role will define the strategies, capabilities, operating models, resourcing approaches, and organizational priorities needed to successfully introduce new assets into a growing US market.
Represent the US Commercial perspective on global asset teams and shape asset and pipeline strategy.
Translate strategy into actionable, scenario-based US launch plans, covering market development, positioning, access, evidence, engagement, patient support, capabilities, resourcing, field force, and investment.
Partner across global and US functions to identify launch risks, gaps, dependencies, and misalignment—and develop practical solutions.
Establish launch governance, plans, and decision processes; support executive forums with clear recommendations, trade-offs, and risk assessments.
Build the talent, processes, capabilities, and infrastructure needed for launch, including specialty and institution-based commercialization models.
Lead cross-functional initiatives and guide assets from early planning through launch readiness and in-market execution.
Who You Are
Minimum Qualifications:
Bachelor’s degree in business, science, or a related field required; MBA or advanced degree preferred.
At least 10 years of relevant experience in the pharmaceutical or biotechnology industry, with a focus on commercial strategy, new product planning, marketing, launch strategy, or related disciplines.
Preferred Qualifications:
Demonstrated US Commercial and product launch experience.
Experience with specialty medicines, rare disease, or oncology preferred.
Strong knowledge of the US pharmaceutical market, commercialization processes, and product lifecycle.
Proven ability to build or scale commercial infrastructure.
Experience developing and refining resourcing plans, operating models, and capability roadmaps.
Demonstrated success influencing senior stakeholders in a highly matrixed organization.
Strong cross-functional collaboration skills and the ability to build alignment across diverse teams.
Excellent written, verbal, presentation, and storyboarding skills, with the ability to translate complex information into clear, concise, high-impact messages.