Job Description
Executive Director, PCV & RSV International Franchise Lead
The position can be based at any of our European locations but will require frequent international travel to Switzerland HQ and to markets under your area of responsibility.
This exciting role leads a key Vaccine Franchise for our Human Health International Marketing Organisation (HHI IMO) Vaccines group and manages a team dedicated to ensuring launch preparation and execution for in-line and new product launches within the franchise.
The HHI International Franchise Lead is a strategic commercial leader and problem solver responsible for supporting the HHI markets and regions with executing their launch planning efforts for key vaccine products, competitive readiness activities, and commercial implementation of the global brand strategy, including their go-to-market model. This individual works with the key HHI Markets and Regions, and Global Marketing, and Cross-Functional Teams such as Access, Medical, Policy, and HHDDA to frame business needs and execute strategies that grow the business and contribute to launch success.
Key Responsibilities
Responsibilities for the HHI International Franchise Lead are focussed on commercial and marketing launch of new vaccine products, ensuring the translation of global strategy into commercial execution.
Market Engagement
- Work closely with local cross-functional teams in priority markets as well as regional teams to ensure alignment to the global brand strategy
- Represent the needs of the markets within key cross-functional global teams and drive action at the global level to enable regional and local success
- Prepare markets and provide support for anticipated competition, including leading competitive simulation workshops and implementing commercial strategy with the markets to defend against competition
Support Launch Readiness and Execution
- Drives standardization of launch plans across key HHI markets and regions.
- Supports refinement of forecasting assumptions and sharing across enterprise teams to inform supply allocation
- Supports the markets and regions with the development of launch plans and go-to-market strategy
- Creates strong alignment across regional and local cross-functional teams to ensure readiness for product approval and launch, driving uptake of our vaccines in partnership with key stakeholders.
- Partners with key markets and regions to ensure all commercial activities that unlock full potential of our vaccine are in place and well tracked
- Develops Objectives and Key Results to ensure commercial activities are on-track to achieve our business aspiration.
Leadership Excellence
- Forges deep relationships across the enterprise and quickly becomes an integral, well- respected partner across the broad vaccines and commercial organization, including global, HHI, key markets and regions.
- Manages a team of International Marketing Leads (Director-level) and supports their growth and development.
- Serves as coach and mentor to key vaccine franchises colleagues including leads in the key markets and regions.
- Embraces new ways of working including Agile, collaboration technologies, and embed analytics into decision making.
- Models positive mindset and behavior for others, and serve as a champion for diversity, equity, and inclusion.
Required Experience and Skills:
- Minimum of 10 years local, regional, and/or global commercial functions including marketing, product management, or market access (or equivalent roles) with P&L responsibility
- Demonstrated leadership and management skills across diverse stakeholders, including those without direct reporting relationship
- Strategic, innovative thinker with a learning orientation and desire for personal excellence
- Business acumen and willingness to act even when uncertain of the outcome
- Exceptional communicator with strong verbal, written and presentation skills
- Ability to process, integrate, and succinctly communicate large amounts of information, including comfort with data analytics and data-driven decision making
- Strong organizational and project management skills
- Proven ability to drive results while demonstrating the highest standards of ethics & integrity
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Job Posting End Date:
02/21/2025
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