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Senior Project Manager Commercial Operations
Job description
MEC 318
Building on the next step in the evolution of Galapagos becoming a fully integrated biopharmaceutical company. We offer the opportunity to support the Senior Vice President Commercial Operations in coordinating projects for the integration of a commercial operations function in a highly dynamic and successful biotech organisation.
Ensuring that each function will work smoothly together on projects with all the different stakeholders (sales, marketing, market access, public affairs, and others) to successfully bring Galapagos’ innovative medicines to patients and society.
- Set-up a roadmap and projects to ensure effective delivery of the commercial operations function; Launch strategies (positioning, segmentation, key messages, branding, etc.)
- Coordinate and support the stakeholders. In this position you collaborate with multiple functions and levels within the company;
- Establish clear, harmonised requirements, delineate roles and responsibilities, and execute deliverables according to plan;
- Clear project communication throughout the organisation of the critical points for a product launch ensuring plans and projects are in place to meet them;
- Contribute to the development of the shape of the to be build organisation, develop and implement strategy in the broadest sense of the word;
- Generate value positioning and pricing policy in collaboration with Market Access and Medical Affairs;
- Manage information diligently by applying project planning methodology, enforce project standards in daily/weekly/monthly execution intervals and create and utilize template;
- Provide forecasts, market assessments for products;
- Identify market opportunities, value propositions, and capture strategies for new products together with co-promotion partners.
In this position you will get the opportunity to:
- Have an impact on the organisation its short- and long term success; Improve outcomes for patients;
- Take on increasing responsibilities;
- Learn about setting-up a commercial operations organisation;
- Work closely with senior executives.
Requirements
Personality Traits:
- Being excited about change: it is not always a comfortable position if you are growing rapidly as a company but it is important to be able to move along, be flexible and triggered in a positive way about the challenges and opportunities that will come ahead.
- Think big: you will work together with a highly ambitious and entrepreneurial group of people that have set the goal to become the biggest biotech in Europe and will have a big impact on people with life improving therapies. - Excel in what you are good at: our people are our biggest strength. We work with professionals that excel in what they are good at, that think out of the box and are passionate.
- Develop your capabilities and be open-minded: you are always looking for opportunities to develop yourself and others.
Job requirements:
- University degree required in science or similar discipline; advanced degree such as MBA preferred;
- Vast experience (5-10 years) with multi-country product launches and pre-launch activities as well as strong exposure to challenges in a commercial or marketing related function;
- Besides being enthusiastic, flexible and pragmatic, you should be able to act independently and demonstrate sound business judgment;
- Manage a large workload in different settings;
The ability and right attitude to (re)balance priorities and assume responsibility in a multi-tasking rapidly evolving biotech environment;
- Demonstrated track record of strategic as well as pragmatic thinking in combination with strong analytic-, scenario planning- and forecasting skills;
- A creative/innovative approach to challenges that will come hand in hand with setting up a new department;
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.