Senior Director, Commercialization Partnerships Europe, CNE

Revolution Medicines, Inc.; Basel; On-site; CHF 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Revolution Medicines is seeking a senior leader to coordinate its European network of commercialization partners, distributors, and alliances. You will report to the VP, GM, CNE and build a high-functioning team focused on partner operations, scalable models, and cross-functional execution across external partners and regional/global leads.

The role requires strategic thinking, hands-on leadership, and the ability to drive launches across multiple markets, with up to 50% travel.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree required; advanced degree in business, life sciences, pharmacy, or medicine preferred, with at least 12+ years of progressive biopharmaceutical leadership experience.
• Significant experience managing international commercialization partners, distributors, licensing relationships, or alliances.
• Demonstrated success developing and executing European commercialization strategies and supporting product launches across multiple markets.
• In-depth experience developing, negotiating, and operationalizing commercialization, distribution, licensing, or alliance agreements.
• Exceptional leadership and influencing skills to build strategic alignment and drive cross-functional decision-making.
• Strong leadership, with the ability to build teams, lead highly matrixed organizations, and influence global, regional, and external stakeholders.
• Experience with commercial operations, distribution, customer service, order-to-cash, or related operational capabilities.
• Entrepreneurial mindset, tolerance for ambiguity, and a passion for helping cancer patients.

Responsibilities

• Develop and execute the European commercialization partnership strategy across distributors, commercialization partners, and alliances.
• Serve as the owner of partner governance, relationship management, and operational performance, including executive business reviews and issue resolution.
• Build and lead a team to drive core capabilities and coordinate regional partner management, commercialization operations, and scalable support for launches and new countries.
• Develop, negotiate, implement, and manage commercialization agreements in partnership with Legal, Finance, regional leadership, and global functions.
• Champion the operating model by aligning external partners, regional and global leads accountable for access, pricing, commercial and medical strategy, around consistent execution.
• Drive launch readiness across partner markets by ensuring the operational infrastructure, distribution, supply, financial processes, training, and cross-functional support are in place for successful execution.
• Coordinate commercial operational capabilities across partner markets, including distribution, customer service, order-to-cash, third-party logistics, and related execution processes.
• Partner with Supply Chain, Finance, Regulatory, Quality, Legal, Medical Affairs, Marketing, and Market Access to ensure coordinated execution and compliance.
• Establish performance standards, KPIs, dashboards, and governance forums that enable data-driven decision-making, enhance partner experience, and drive continuous improvement.
• Anticipate commercialization risks, resolve cross-functional challenges, and ensure partner execution aligns with global strategy and local market requirements.
• Provide coaching and development to build a highly effective, accountable, and patient-focused team.
• Up to 50% travel required.

Skills

Leadership

Cross-functional collaboration

Strategic planning

Negotiation

Education

Bachelor's degree

Advanced degree in business, life sciences, pharmacy, or medicine

Job description

Revolution Medicines is a global, commercial-state oncology company dedicated to discovering, developing and delivering innovative medicines for patients with RAS-addicted cancers. Leveraging its differentiated RAS(ON) tri-complex inhibitor platform, the company is advancing a broad, integrated portfolio of oral RAS(ON) inhibitors designed to directly target the active, cancer-driving state of RAS. Founded on rigorous scientific inquiry and a willingness to challenge long-held assumptions, Revolution Medicines is committed to changing the trajectory of disease for patients with RAS-addicted cancers worldwide.

Our people are united by a shared way of working: follow the science, challenge assumptions, act with urgency and hold ourselves to a high standard of rigor—all in service of patients.

The Opportunity:

This newly created role will coordinate Revolution Medicines' European network of commercialization partners, distributors, and regional alliances. This position will report to the VP, GM, CNE and will build a high-functioning and high-efficient team focused on partner operations and active relationship management, establish scalable operating models, and coordinate execution across external partners, regional cross-functional leads, and global functions. Candidates should be strategic, highly collaborative, and willing to operate hands-on in a growing organization.

Key responsibilities:

• Develop and execute the European commercialization partnership strategy across distributors, commercialization partners, and alliances.
• Serve as the owner of partner governance, relationship management, and operational performance, including executive business reviews and issue resolution.
• Build and lead a team to drive core capabilities and coordinate regional partner management, commercialization operations, and scalable support for launches and new countries.
• Develop, negotiate, implement, and manage commercialization agreements in partnership with Legal, Finance, regional leadership, and global functions.
• Champion the operating model by aligning external partners, regional and global leads accountable for access, pricing, commercial and medical strategy, around consistent execution.
• Drive launch readiness across partner markets by ensuring the operational infrastructure, distribution, supply, financial processes, training, and cross-functional support are in place for successful execution.
• Coordinate commercial operational capabilities across partner markets, including distribution, customer service, order-to-cash, third-party logistics, and related execution processes.
• Partner with Supply Chain, Finance, Regulatory, Quality, Legal, Medical Affairs, Marketing, and Market Access to ensure coordinated execution and compliance.
• Establish performance standards, KPIs, dashboards, and governance forums that enable data-driven decision-making, enhance partner experience, and drive continuous improvement.
• Anticipate commercialization risks, resolve cross-functional challenges, and ensure partner execution aligns with global strategy and local market requirements.
• Provide coaching and development to build a highly effective, accountable, and patient-focused team.
• Up to 50% travel required.

Required Skills, Experience and Education:

• Bachelor's degree required; advanced degree in business, life sciences, pharmacy, or medicine preferred, with at least 12+ years of progressive biopharmaceutical leadership experience.
• Significant experience managing international commercialization partners, distributors, licensing relationships, or alliances.
• Demonstrated success developing and executing European commercialization strategies and supporting product launches across multiple markets.
• In-depth experience developing, negotiating, and operationalizing commercialization, distribution, licensing, or alliance agreements.
• Exceptional leadership and influencing skills to build strategic alignment and drive cross-functional decision-making.
• Strong leadership, with the ability to build teams, lead highly matrixed organizations, and influence global, regional, and external stakeholders.
• Experience with commercial operations, distribution, customer service, order-to-cash, or related operational capabilities.
• Entrepreneurial mindset, tolerance for ambiguity, and a passion for helping cancer patients.

Preferred Skills:

• Oncology commercialization and launch experience.
• Legal background.
• Prior experience in a smaller, rapidly growing biotechnology or pharmaceutical company.
• Knowledge of pharmaceutical distribution, GDP, ERP-enabled commercial processes, quality systems, and pricing governance.

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