Launch Excellence Lead – Rare Disease

Mission 

As a Launch Excellence Lead, your mission is to lead and orchestrate the launch of high-impact products, acting as the primary point of contact for the assigned launches to ensure that every product is fully prepared for successful market launches.

You will act as the main bridge between global and local teams, translating global strategies into actionable country launch plans and making sure execution is consistent, timely, and effective.
Your role is key to embedding a robust launch framework, sharing best practices across affiliates, and driving cross-functional collaboration so that every launch achieves maximum reach and impact.

Responsibilities

• Lead,  planning & execution Strategic Launches: Drive the planning and execution of high-priority, complex, and strategic product launches, serving as the main liaison between global and local teams and optimizing resouce allocation.

• Ensure Strategic Alignment: Guarantee that global strategies are effectively translated into local execution plans, fostering consistency and excellence across markets and aligning launch objectives with corporate priorities.

• Implement Governance Frameworks: Deploy a clear governance model for each launch to ensure the right stakeholders are engaged, enabling timely decision-making, and focus on value delivery based on a standarized launch framework. Establish and continuously refine the governance model that guides all product launches, ensuring that stakeholders are aligned on principles, cadence, and decision rights.

• Facilitate Launch Coordination: Organize and lead cross-functional launch meetings to ensure effective governance and execution, fostering information accessibility, maintaining accurate and up-to-date information in planning tools and systems, and driving the cadence and discipline of governance forums to ensure that critical decisions, risks, and learnings are captured efficiently.

• Manage Timelines: Lead the development and maintenance of integrated launch timelines, incorporating inputs from R&D, Regulatory Affairs, Market Access, Marketing, Patient & Cx, Supply, DDAI, Commercial teams, etc. ensuring alignment and accountability across all stakeholders.

• Drive Cross-functional Collaboration: Coordinate efforts across global and local stakeholders to secure cohesive and efficient launch execution, fostering a culture of shared ownership and ensuring information flows seamlessly across all functions.

• Identify and Mitigate Risks: Anticipate potential risks or bottlenecks, implementing proactive mitigation strategies to minimize impact on timelines and deliverables.

• Foster Continuous Improvement: Capture learnings and best practices from each launch and facilitate knowledge transfer to continuously enhance launch readiness framework and performance across markets, generating knowledge-sharing practices and embedding insights into the Launch Excellence framework for future launches.

Your role will be pivotal in shaping and evolving the Launch Excellence function itself, embedding governance frameworks, building organizational knowledge, and driving cross-functional collaboration so that every launch delivers maximum value and sustainable impact.

Why Ferrer?

• Make a positive impact in society
• Participate in volunteering activities
• Grow in a culture of trust, responsibility, and constructive feedback
• Enjoy a flexible working model & collaborative office experience to enable innovation and teamworking
• Make a real difference to the team and to yourself
• Take advantage of opportunities for development & learning
• Discover a range of benefits to support your physical, emotional and financial wellbeing
• Customize your remuneration and benefit