Launch Excellence Strategist

Takeda; Zürich; Vor Ort; CHF 169.000 - 233.000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

Takeda in Zürich, Switzerland seeks a Launch Excellence Lead to guide planning, readiness, and continuous improvement of launch processes across global and local teams. You will tailor frameworks to asset needs and lead readiness workshops.

You will collaborate with Medical, Market Access, Strategy and Marketing to align priorities, track milestones, and escalate risks, ensuring consistent, best-practice launch execution.

Qualifikationen

• Significant experience supporting and leading multiple pharmaceutical product launches.
• Experience building launch capabilities within pharma.
• Ability to codify and share key launch learnings across regions.
• Strong strategic communication across global and local teams.

Aufgaben

• Lead the development, execution, reporting, and ongoing enhancement of the Launch Excellence process in collaboration with peer Launch Excellence Leads, relevant Global and International Business Unit stakeholders, and Launch Excellence leads within local teams.
• Act as a steward of best practices for launch planning and readiness, helping reduce variability, improve execution consistency, and ensure a unified launch framework.
• Provide hands-on support for key markets, including preparing launch plans, onboarding teams to the launch readiness platform, facilitating launch readiness workshops, and enabling cross-functional orchestration.
• Design and lead launch readiness workshops, leveraging examples from early-launch markets to illustrate best practices and lessons learned.
• Foster strategic collaboration among local teams and cross-functional partners, including Medical, Market Access, Supply Chain, and Global functions, to enable best-practice sharing and the transfer of launch excellence knowledge and capabilities across regions.
• Develop and lead a robust network of Launch Excellence points of contact within Marketing & Commercial Excellence and local teams to drive consistent launch practices and facilitate the exchange of best practices and learnings.
• Own and maintain a comprehensive launch tracker covering key launch milestones and timelines for upcoming and ongoing launches, enabling visibility and proactive issue management.
• Develop and monitor internal and external launch readiness indicators that measure readiness, execution quality, and organizational confidence, providing transparent visibility into progress and launch readiness status.
• Support local teams in preparing Launch Activation Workshops and Launch Readiness Reviews, ensuring thorough evaluation and continuous improvement of launch strategies.
• Coordinate participation of International Business Unit and Global functional stakeholders in key Launch Activation Workshops and Launch Readiness Reviews, capturing actions and next steps while ensuring clear ownership and follow-through.
• Orchestrate International Business Unit cross-functional teams and deliverables through the launch readiness platform and quarterly launch team meetings.
• Partner with Marketing & Commercial Excellence leadership and key stakeholders to design and implement tailored training and enablement programs that strengthen launch excellence capabilities across local teams and regional teams.
• Enable a self-sufficient Launch Excellence approach through a brand-agnostic launch framework that can be applied consistently across launch scenarios, including inline and lifecycle launches that do not receive direct support from a Launch Excellence Lead.
• Provide input into the ongoing evolution of the launch readiness platform, working in close partnership with internal partners.
• Drive and enable adoption of the launch readiness platform as the primary platform supporting the Launch Excellence approach.
• Each Launch Excellence Lead will be accountable for one or more priority pipeline assets, with final asset allocation aligned across the Launch Excellence team. In addition to asset ownership, each Launch Excellence Lead contributes to the evolution of the overall Launch Excellence framework and the development of harmonized approaches across the organization.
• Asset and task allocation remains flexible, allowing teams to adapt to changing priorities, workload demands, and business... needs.

Kenntnisse

Extensive Launch Expertise

Launch Capability Development

Knowledge Codification

Strategic Communication

Interpersonal Effectiveness

Decision-Making

Positive and Collaborative Leadership

Strategic Project Leadership

Patient and Customer Focus

Jobbeschreibung

Takeda in Zürich, Switzerland seeks a Launch Excellence Lead to guide planning, readiness, and continuous improvement of launch processes across global and local teams. You will tailor frameworks to asset needs and lead readiness workshops.

You will collaborate with Medical, Market Access, Strategy and Marketing to align priorities, track milestones, and escalate risks, ensuring consistent, best-practice launch execution.