Director, Fibrinogen Launch

Would you like to join an international team working to improve the future of healthcare? Do you want to enhance the lives of millions of people? Grifols is a global healthcare company that since 1909 has been working to improve the health and well-being of people around the world. We are leaders in plasma-derived medicines and transfusion medicine and develop, produce and market innovative medicines, solutions and services in more than 110 countries and regions.

**We believe that diversity adds value to our business, our teams and our culture. We are committed to equal employment opportunities that foster an inclusive environment.**

Help us lead one of the world’s largest pharmaceutical companies. We are a world leader in plasma-derived medicines with a presence in more than 100 countries, and a growing global team of over 20.000 people. That’s why we need a Director Fibrinogen Launch like you.

**Mission**

The Director Fibrinogen launch is responsible for formulating strategy together with the Senior Director, and executing the action plan for a successful global launch of a fibrinogen concentrate, while keeping oversight of the overall cross-functional launch readiness efforts. Will be required to communicate and represent the launch strategies and plans at different levels within the organization. He/she leverages exceptional advocacy, communication and negotiation skills to co-create strategies and plans.

**What your responsibilities will be**

Launch management:

- Participates in all aspects of launch strategy and planning from proof of concept (clinical) to Launch, contributing to the success of launch in all the geographies.
- Responsible for driving alignment across Marketing, Market Access and Medical leads on overall launch strategy which shall inform all tactics/deliverables which Marketing, Market Access and Medical shall be accountable for delivering against.
- Participates in strategic launch decision-making for deliverables requiring cross-functional collaboration.

Global Collaboration:

- Co-creates launch strategy with the local product teams that accounts for market specificities.
- Works with local teams to prepare for all launch scenarios and, in partnership with the Launch Sr. Director, ensure that the respective teams execute on those.

Team Management:

- Contributes to challenging the extended launch team to design innovative approaches to launch preparation with the goal to improve patient care.
- Actively contributes their expertise and input in the development and execution of launch strategies.
- Leads or participates in launch sub teams workstreams, to the extend appropriate, to ensure alignment with overarching strategy.
- Ensures inclusion of legal and compliance representatives in decision making.
- Manages Product Manager role for designated projects.

Planning:

- Accountable for strategic business planning related to the asset.
- Undertakes discussions with colleagues at the strategic level during business planning cycles leading to long term forecast. Off-cycle, accountable for leading strategic discussions to escalate budget requests to respective functional leadership.
- May aggregate budget for reporting purposes to senior leadership.
- During the business planning cycle participates in the alignment on key investments at a strategic level.
- Ensures budget and resourcing will effectively support pre-launch activities.

Execution:

- Together with the Senior Director, creates and establishes a flexible launch plan with the that will enable the product to be successfully launched on time.
- Responsible of delivering upon launch metrics.
- Monitoring of timelines and deliverables, workstream interdependencies, risk management.
- Monitoring joint launch KPIs and overseeing mitigation strategies, to the extent appropriate.

**Who you are**

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skills, education, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions).
- Bachelor's degree in business, science or related field; MBA or science-related graduate degree preferred.
- Recent launch experience in Europe and/or US. Experience working within a global team is preferred.
- (7-10) years of experience in the pharmaceutical and healthcare industry in disciplines such as marketing, sales, consulting, product development, business development, market access, government affairs or related experience.
- Deep Target Audience knowledge and experience of activities required to launch.
- Knowledge of both the EU&US environment, the global organization and an understanding of how it works.
- Experienced in commercialization, including a working understanding of patient and market access as well as specialty distribution models.
- Knowledge of clinical development proces