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Core Competencies
Role fitCore Competencies
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Demonstrates expertise in leading strategic launch planning and execution within the Animal Health sector, with a strong focus on cross-functional collaboration, risk management, and stakeholder engagement. Proven ability to translate product strategy into actionable plans while managing complex programs and ensuring alignment across global teams.
Highest-signal resume keywords
Strategic Launch PlanningCross-Functional Program ManagementStakeholder EngagementRisk Identification and MitigationAnimal Health Industry Experience
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Hard Skills
Launch Excellence BlueprintProduct Lifecycle ManagementKPI MonitoringMilestone TrackingGovernance FrameworksDecision-MakingIssue ResolutionMarket-Readiness RequirementsLaunch Control Tower TrackingComplex Program Management
Soft Skills
Relationship BuildingFacilitationNegotiationCommunicationAnalytical Judgment
Certifications & Qualifications
Advanced DegreeRelevant Professional Certification
Industry Keywords
Animal HealthPharmaceuticalsLife SciencesRegulatory ComplianceGlobal Launch Activities
About the role
Key responsibilities & impact- Develop and maintain product-specific strategic launch plans using the Launch Excellence blueprint
- Translate product strategy into integrated cross-functional milestones, deliverables, decision points, and market-readiness requirements
- Lead launch planning from pre-NPDP approval through one to two years after initial market launch
- Mobilize and lead cross-functional Launch Squads
- Align global, regional, and market stakeholders around a single launch plan
- Establish transparent views of launch readiness and post-launch performance
- Monitor milestones and KPIs, surface interdependencies and risks, drive resolution, and escalate material issues
- Oversee Launch Control Tower tracking and provide decision-focused updates to senior leadership
- Plan and facilitate Launch Squad meetings, ambition-setting sessions, and leadership reviews
- Drive accountability across Launch Squad leads and their teams
- Coordinate global, regional, and market inputs to ensure integrated and realistic launch plans
- Lead launch risk identification, mitigation planning, issue resolution, and escalation
- Build relationships with senior leaders and the Animal Health Leadership Team
- Strengthen launch excellence capabilities, tools, governance, and ways of working
- Provide direction to project managers and contributors supporting Launch Squads
- Serve as a strategic advisor on launch priorities, trade-offs, and issue resolution
Requirements
What you’ll need- Bachelor’s degree in business, science, engineering, veterinary medicine, or a related field required
- At least 10 years of relevant business experience, including experience in Animal Health, pharmaceuticals, life sciences, or another highly regulated industry
- Demonstrated success leading strategic operational plans and complex, cross-functional programs or portfolios
- Experience leading globally dispersed teams through influence and without direct authority
- Strong understanding of the end-to-end product lifecycle and the commercial, technical, regulatory, and supply considerations that shape successful launches
- Ability to travel as required to support global launch activities and stakeholder engagement
- Demonstrated ability to lead through influence in a complex, global, and matrixed organization, including effective engagement with senior executives
- Ability to connect product strategy, science, regulatory requirements, supply considerations, and commercial priorities to shape executable launch plans
- Significant experience supporting or leading product launches, with strong knowledge of launch planning, readiness, governance, and post-launch performance management
- Proven success managing complex, cross-functional programs, milestones, dependencies, risks, and decisions to deliver outcomes on time
- Excellent relationship-building, facilitation, negotiation, and communication skills
- Strong analytical judgment and comfort operating with ambiguity, changing priorities, and incomplete information
- Advanced written, verbal, and presentation skills
- Ability to travel 25%
- No visa sponsorship available
- Advanced degree or relevant professional certification preferred
Benefits
Comp & perks- Annual bonus eligibility
- Long-term incentive eligibility, if applicable
- Medical, dental, and vision healthcare
- Other insurance benefits for employee and family
- Retirement benefits, including 401(k)
- Paid holidays
- Vacation
- Compassionate days
- Sick days
- Relocation: Domestic/International