US Lupus Launch Excellence Lead

Biogen; Cambridge (MA); On-site; USD 164,000 - 226,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

Life insurance

Fitness reimbursement

Paid vacation

Holidays and personal days

Parental leave

401(k) matching

Employee stock purchase plan

Tuition reimbursement

Job summary

Biogen is seeking an Associate Director, US Launch Excellence, Lupus, to lead integrated launch readiness and execution for the US market in a senior program-management capacity. This role sits at the center of cross‑functional collaboration across Marketing, Medical, Market Access, Insights & Analytics, Commercial Operations, IT, and HR to deliver a coordinated, insight‑driven lupus launch.

You will drive governance, planning discipline, and execution across multiple workstreams, ensuring

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree required; advanced degree preferred.
• 8+ years of biopharmaceutical industry experience with significant launch planning, launch readiness, or launch program management experience.
• Demonstrated success leading cross‑functional launch planning efforts for at least one major product launch.
• Deep understanding of launch governance, launch readiness processes, milestone planning, and cross‑functional execution.
• Proven ability to manage complex, multi‑workstream programs with numerous stakeholders and competing priorities.

Responsibilities

• Own and maintain the integrated U.S. lupus launch plan, ensuring alignment across all functional workstreams.
• Lead the U.S. Launch Operations Team and coordinate weekly, monthly, and milestone‑based launch governance meetings.
• Drive accountability for launch deliverables, milestones, and readiness activities across Commercial, Medical, Market Access, Patient Services, Insights & Analytics, Operations, IT, HR, and other enabling functions.
• Monitor progress against the launch plan, proactively identifying risks, dependencies, resource constraints, and critical path activities.
• Facilitate issue resolution and escalation of launch‑critical decisions to appropriate governance forums.
• Maintain launch readiness dashboards, action trackers, risk registers, and decision logs.
• Ensure cross‑functional teams are prepared for key launch milestones and readiness reviews.
• Partner closely with Global and U.S. teams to coordinate timelines, transition points, and interdependencies.
• Continuously improve launch governance, planning processes, reporting tools, and operating cadence.
• Collaborate with launch planning counterparts across Biogen North America to share best practices and maintain consistency in launch planning approaches.
• Develop launch updates, readiness assessments, and strategic recommendations, ensuring key decisions, risks, and opportunities are proactively communicated to leadership.

Skills

Launch planning

Cross‑functional leadership

Project management

Risk management

Stakeholder management

Organizational skills

Influence without authority

Launch tooling

Education

Bachelor's degree

Advanced degree preferred

Job description

Biogen is seeking an Associate Director, US Launch Excellence, Lupus, to lead integrated launch readiness and execution for the US market in a senior program-management capacity. This role sits at the center of cross‑functional collaboration across Marketing, Medical, Market Access, Insights & Analytics, Commercial Operations, IT, and HR to deliver a coordinated, insight‑driven lupus launch.

You will drive governance, planning discipline, and execution across multiple workstreams, ensuring