Launch Excellence Partner - London, United Kingdom - Lumanity

Lumanity

Verified Company

London, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

Overview / About us:
Lumanity is dedicated to improving patient health by accelerating and optimizing access to medical advances.

We partner with life sciences companies around the world to generate evidence to demonstrate the value of their product, translate the science and data into compelling product narratives, and enable commercial decisions that position these products for success in the market.

We do this through strategic and complimentary areas of focus:
Asset Optimization and Commercialization, Value, Access, and Outcomes, Medical Strategy and Communications, and Real-World Evidence.

Responsibilities / Position overview:

Our Launch Excellence team lies within the Asset Optimization and Commericialization business and helps our clients achieve their launch goals and provides expertise to launch their assets successfully and support them with frameworks, project plans, launch team ways of working, governance, and project management.

Our core focus is on enhancing the -2 years to +2 years launch period, ensuring launches are implemented across functions and countries in a connected and seamless way.

We are seeking an experienced Launch Excellence Partner to manage our clients commercial launch teams, ensuring they have well thought out cross-functional launch project plans, effective launch team governance and ways of working, and effective processes ensuring launch progress is well monitored, managed, challenges, and communicated.

This role is responsible for building and enabling strong cross functional collaboration across the teams, fostering good discussion, decision making, and the leading and ensuring of continuous best practices.

The Launch Excellence Partner will support our clients to secure timely launch readiness and achieve launch success through:

Acting as a launch excellence champion proactively using you knowledge and experience to constructively challenge launch plans and client thinking
Encouraging use of and compliance with launch excellence frameworks, tools, and best practice project management methodology
Supporting commercial launch leads and their launch teams to agree their accountabilities, ways of working and governance
Preparing and cofacilitating Launch team initiation and project planning workshops
Preparing and facilitating operational launch team / workstream meetings, ensuring rigour in capturing and following up on decisions, actions, risks, and issues
Recording and tracking project plan and KPI progress on our Launch management platformIgnite after gaining updates via onetoone or team meetings
Coaching the client teams on the use of Ignite to ensure good uptake of the platform
Maintaining key launch project documentation such as the team charter and RAID log (Risks, Actions, Issues, Decisions)
Flagging overdue actions, bottlenecks or issues with milestones that may impact the launch impact, quality, or date
Providing feedback, information and status update reports for launch and client leads and senior management
Supporting launch leads/teams prepare for launch readiness reviews
Fostering a culture of continuous improvement by encouraging review and documentation of successes and areas for improvement throughout and after the launch
Supporting the existing client project and account management team with daytoday management of the client partnership, identifying opportunities for account growth, and ensuring client satisfaction and renewal

Qualifications:

5+ years' experience in a pharma commercialisation launch team role at local, regional and/or global level (Europe, US, Japan, and Asia) with solid appreciation of the key milestones and deliverables required across all key functions
Experience of launch requirements across the pharmaceutical value chain with understanding of clinical development, regulatory, marketing, medical, market access, product supply, commercial excellence and sales milestones, activities, and deliverables
5+ years' experience of successful and complex project management (project management accreditation such as PMP or PRINCE 2 would be advantageous)
Experience of pharmaceutical ethics and compliance standards
Degree level education (a life sciences discipline would be advantageous)
Ability to build and advance project plans in ambiguous and often changing environment with strong organisational and time management skills
Ability to multitask and focus on more than one launch or client at a time
Ability to work in a matrix environment and manage / partner with crossfunctional teams
Proactive, pragmatic, and collaborative mindset
Excellent interpersonal, communication and presentation skills with ability to give honest and constructive feedback in an objective nonconfrontational manner
Ability to work with detail and maintain documentation relating to project milestones, activities and KPIs
Strong eye and concern for quality ensuring all outputs and deliverables are professi