Associate Director, Portfolio

The Associate Director, Portfolio & NPL Head, North/East/South/West Europe Hub is responsible to deliver business growth through strategic and operational management of the entire Portfolio & New Product Launch (NPL) strategy and activities within the hub in close alignment with EMENA Portfolio Director and Countries. The scope of the role includes:

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• Development and execution of hub portfolio and new launch strategy, initiatives and projects.
• Leading portfolio growth, optimisation and life cycle management initiatives supporting the growth of Accord across different businesses/verticals.
• Driving the new product launch team, cross functional workstreams (commercial, medical affairs, product development, regulatory affairs, R&D and marketing) and processes to successfully launch new generics and speciality brands in the region within timescales and right first time

Specific Job Responsibilities:

• In close alignment with BD and NPL, evaluate new opportunities for addition into hub pipeline, track developments and propose/evaluate suitable opportunities for financial assessment via business cases (BC).
• Deliver BC financial assessments for new pipeline opportunities, providing quantitative and qualitative feedback plus market intelligence when necessary and within agreed timescales.
• Identify new business opportunities (with support from stakeholders) incorporating In-House, In-License, acquisition, distribution or local deals where relevant.
• Deliver business growth by providing recommendations for pipeline candidates and new business opportunities via the Make It Better process.
• Analyse portfolio by completing optimisation reviews, delivering clear recommendations and outcomes.
• Collaborate cross functionally (commercial, medical affairs, product development, regulatory affairs, R&D and marketing) ensuring alignment on portfolio growth, optimisation strategies and commercial opportunities.
• Responsible for understanding portfolio strengths, weaknesses, external opportunities and threats.
• Align with hub head, country directors and stakeholders, ensuring optimal portfolio expansion by market.
• Maintain efficient workflows by keeping accurate portfolio records including existing products, pipeline candidates and new product launches.
• Optimize portfolio by identifying underperforming products and initiate relevant life cycle management activities in accordance with the MA & Launch Cancellation process.
• Ensure cost savings are achieved and all CRF and regulatory activities completed within timescales to ensure MAs are cancelled where approved or saved if sunset clause applicable.
• Drive continuous process improvement plus life cycle management via Make It Better and COGs improvement requests.
• Prepare budget launch date recommendations and ensure adherence for all pipeline products including relevant SKUs in budget templates.
• Provide recommendations on launch timelines for budget forecast and long range plans.
• Lead any ad-hoc projects required to support business growth and profitability.
• Central point of contact between EMENA Portfolio team and the hub regarding portfolio and pipeline.

New Product Launch:

• Lead development, maintenance and revision of launch excellence program ensuring launch success.
• Lead new product launch team and cross functional workstreams from opportunity assessment to execution of launch plans right first time.
• Understand market objectives of each launch, identifying risk and critical success factors, develop, align and execute launch and market access plans.
• Create launch plans employing detailed analysis of critical success factors, understanding market requirements, regulatory, quality, supply limitations and opportunities.
• Align launch plans with relevant stakeholders and update plans according to changes in market condition or product readiness ensuring execution according to plan.
• Ensure readiness in market for each product launch including system set up, local regulatory / pricing / quality activities.
• Identify any market specific requirements and ensure these are communicated back to the central NPL team.
• Identify bottlenecks, dependencies and key decisions points in launch process and take required actions to mitigate risks.
• Track launch milestone status, elevate bottlenecks and foster clear communication with commercial, pharmacovigilance, quality, regulatory and supply chain, ensuring all team members understand required actions and responsibilities.
• Evaluate implications, opportunities or changes and mitigate risk or maximize ea