Launch Manager
Orion
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Hyderabad • India
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About the role
- Lead cross-functional launch teams, ensuring alignment and collaboration across all functions.
- Lead scenario planning and development of contingency plans to proactively address potential risks, delays, or shifts in market conditions, ensuring the team is prepared to adapt and respond effectively.
- Identify the optimal momentum to launch. Creating ambitious and realistic timelines and overseeing the entire launch process.
- Ensure achievement of business objectives, evaluating the business case/profitability throughout the launch. Preparing a recommendation for decision making if there are signs that the objectives may not be met, including coordinating a no launch decision when necessary.
- Ensure that launch status and launch-related information are up to date in internal systems. Maintaining active oversight of all launch-related information, ensuring data accuracy and reliability.
- Act as the primary communicator of the launch view, proactively addressing and resolving critical issues.
- Prepare and present proposals for launch-related business decisions to senior management.
- Ensure timely and accurate reporting of launch progress and escalating issues as per internal guidance and requests.
Requirements
- 10 + years of experience in the pharmaceutical industry, with experience in the Generics sector and with at least 8 years in launch management or project management.
- Good understanding of European regulatory processes and solid experience in collaborating with finished-product suppliers (manufacturing partners).
- Experience in leading cross-functional teams across diverse cultural and organizational contexts.
- Ability to understand the big picture and long-term while balancing with details and short-term priorities.
- Strong leadership skills, with the ability to inspire, challenge, and align stakeholders toward shared goals.
- Excellent networking and communication skills.
- Proven ability to manage multiple, simultaneous launch cases/projects with efficiency and strategic oversight.
- A proactive mindset, a strong sense of ownership, and a willingness to continuously learn and adapt.
- The capability to thrive in complex, cross-functional, and international environments, navigating ambiguity with confidence and clarity.
- Strong emotional intelligence and the ability to foster a constructive, solution-oriented team environment.
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
launch managementproject managementscenario planningcontingency planningdata accuracyreportingbusiness case evaluationprofitability analysisregulatory processescollaboration with suppliers
Soft Skills
leadershipcommunicationnetworkingstrategic oversightproactive mindsetemotional intelligenceadaptabilityproblem-solvingteam alignmentcultural sensitivity