Senior Launch Operations Architect

Jobtailor; Dublin; On-site; EUR 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Jobtailor in Ireland is seeking a senior Program Manager to lead integrated launch plans across cross-functional teams, ensuring milestones, owners, dependencies, and decisions are well-governed.

You will drive launch readiness, Day 0 planning, governance forums, and executive reporting, while translating strategic priorities into actionable execution and maintaining RAID discipline across complex pharmaceutical initiatives.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree required; advanced degree preferred
• 8+ years of program / project management experience, preferably across complex pharmaceutical launches, commercialization initiatives, product launches, or large cross-functional business transformations
• Experience managing multiple workstreams, senior stakeholders, and launching critical milestones preferred
• Strong preference for experience managing pharmaceutical launch teams, launch readiness programs, governance forums, cross-functional planning, and execution management in complex commercial or medical environments
• Professional PM training or certification preferred, such as PMP or Agile
• Proficiency with launch planning systems such as Launch Hub, Smartsheet, MS Project, AI-enabled productivity tools, and executive reporting tools
• Ability to lead large cross-functional teams without direct authority, influence senior stakeholders, drive accountability, manage ambiguity, and convert strategic priorities into structured execution

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain integrated launch project plans across workstreams, milestones, deliverables, owners, dependencies, and decision points
• Define launch roadmaps, critical paths, readiness gates, and cross-functional interdependencies through post-launch transition
• Run the Launch Hub / launch operating system as the integrated plan of record
• Translate functional plans into integrated cross-functional execution plans
• Design and manage launch operating cadence, governance forums, decision points, escalation pathways, and action tracking
• Align functional SPOCs and sub-team leads on priorities, ownership, interdependencies, and outputs
• Coordinate cross-functional resource planning and capacity trade-off discussions
• Identify, manage, and resolve cross-functional dependencies
• Track commitments, decisions, action owners, due dates, escalations, and follow-through
• Assess launch readiness, maintain readiness trackers, and surface gaps, trade-offs, and risks
• Maintain RAID discipline across risks, assumptions, issues, and dependencies
• Drive contingency planning, scenario readiness, and Day 0 / Day 0+ planning
• Convert LRR, IPST, and governance outputs into actionable execution plans
• Synthesize complex inputs into decision-ready recommendations for senior leadership
• Maintain visibility to asset status, readiness, risks, dependencies, milestones, and decisions
• Prepare executive reporting and reinforce enterprise alignment
• Support launch execution, Day 0 readiness activities, go-live simulations, and post-launch action tracking
• Lead post-launch debriefs, lessons learned, and transition planning
• Identify process improvements and reusable standards for future launches

Skills

Program Management

Pharmaceutical Launch Experience

Cross-Functional Planning

PMP Certification

Launch Planning Systems

Education

Bachelor's degree

Advanced degree preferred

Tools

Launch Hub

Smartsheet

MS Project

AI-Enabled Productivity Tools

Job description

Jobtailor in Ireland is seeking a senior Program Manager to lead integrated launch plans across cross-functional teams, ensuring milestones, owners, dependencies, and decisions are well-governed.

You will drive launch readiness, Day 0 planning, governance forums, and executive reporting, while translating strategic priorities into actionable execution and maintaining RAID discipline across complex pharmaceutical initiatives.