Senior Director, General Manager

Senior Director, General Manager page is loaded## Senior Director, General Managerlocations: DE - Munichtime type: Full timeposted on: Posted 4 Days Agojob requisition id: JR100990Opportunity awaits those up to the challenge of developing transformative therapies across a broad range of debilitating diseases.**Summary:**In the buildup to the upcoming launch of its groundbreaking treatment for a debilitating retinal disease, Apellis Germany is seeking a visionary General Manager to spearhead this pivotal moment. This is an exceptional opportunity to establish and grow Apellis’ presence in Germany by driving the launch of our first product in the German market, making a profound impact on patients’ lives. As General Manager, you will build and lead a high-performing team across commercial, medical, market access, and support functions. You will shape the local strategy, refine the commercial approach, and execute a robust country launch plan.**Roles and Responsibilities:*** Develop and manage the country organization, including functional leads and sales field force.* With your team, develop strategy for market access, pricing, and reimbursement for German markets in preparation for product launches.* Lead and build strong relationships with customers across the region.* Drive and oversee the affiliate build-out.* Define long-term cross functional tactical plans as well as annual operating plans for the German business in alignment with global organizational and regional strategies and vision.* Ensure Apellis is operating in strict compliance with all local legislation.* Delivery results against agreed targets.* Ownership of P & L.**Education, Registration & Certification:*** Bachelor's degree or equivalent, MBA preferred.**Experience:*** Strong understanding of how the biopharma industry operates across the German region: + Knowledge of and expertise with European and German regulatory frameworks and processes (regional and local). + In-depth knowledge of German market access environment. + Knowledge of pharma-specific regional and local compliance codes.* Previous General Management responsibility within Pharma and/or Biotechnology. Experience in the ophthalmology sector is desired.* A scientific orientation from experience across multiple therapeutic areas within industry.* Proven track record of successful product launch(es) in Germany and willing to put in effort that is beyond normal expectations.**Skills, Knowledge & Abilities:*** **Leadership & People Management**: lead teamwork proactively across a variety of situations. Understand implicitly how to manage and work with different people and various working styles. Cultivate a climate in direct and adjacent areas/units of shared decision-making and shared risk/reward. Build a culture that highlights joint accomplishments, learns from failure and rewards initiative. Provide a sense of direction and purpose.* **Driving results**: translate business goals into well-defined performance plans for the organization. Develop and oversee performance management processes that deliver results far exceeding expectations. Align individual performance goals and measure systematically and consistently and use them to drive performance.* **Stakeholder Management**: develop and lead, on a consistent basis, well-aligned strategies that win commitment for key initiatives, inside and outside the company.* **Customer Orientation**: cultivate a deep, proactive understanding of customers’ requirements and goals across customers’ entire extended value chain. Showcase a customer/ client-centric mentality and a passion for excellence. Tenacity in achieving objectives and deadlines.* **Best Practice Thinking**: scan the business world constantly for technical and business process innovations that may be relevant to the business. Build regional teams that effectively adapt and develop world-class practices from inside or outside the industry to create powerful competitive advantage.This position will suit an individual who is a **low-ego executive** driven by a purpose aligned with patient-centric values. They **lead through influence rather than authority**, effectively leveraging the matrix to achieve results. Highly adaptable and resilient, they can distill complex issues to their essence and present ideas with clarity and conviction. **Comfortable navigating ambiguity and complexity**, they remain focused on delivering an exceptional customer experience.**Other requirements:*** German speaker with fluent English.**Work Arrangement:****Travel Requirements:**1. Travel up to 40% **Education:**Bachelor's Degree**Benefits and Perks:** Apellis offers a comprehensive benefits package, inclusive flexible time off, summer and winter shutdowns, paid family leave and more!**Company Background:** Apellis Pharmaceuticals, Inc. is a global biopharmaceutical company leading the way in complement science to develop life-changing therapies for some of the most challenging diseases patients face. We ushered in the first new class of complement medicine in 15 years and now have two C3-targeting medicines approved to treat four serious diseases. Breakthroughs for patients include the first-ever therapy for geographic atrophy, a leading cause of blindness, and the first treatment for patients 12 and older with C3G or primary IC-MPGN, two severe, rare kidney diseases. We believe we have only begun to unlock the potential of targeting C3 across many serious diseases. For more information, please visit or follow us on and . **Other Duties:** Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities and activities may change at any time with or without notice.