Director, Global Commercial Strategy & Launch Planning

Job description

BGP Products Operations GmbH Viatris is a global healthcare company uniquely positioned to bridge the traditional divide between generics and brands, combining the best of both to more holistically address healthcare needs globally. With a mission to empower people worldwide to live healthier at every stage of life, we provide access at scale, currently supplying high-quality medicines to approximately 1 billion patients around the world annually and touching all of life's moments, from birth to the end of life, acute conditions to chronic diseases. We have been included on number of award lists that demonstrate the impact we are making. Our global portfolio includes best-in-class, iconic brand-name products as well as global key brands; generics, including branded and complex generics; and other offerings across a wide range of therapeutic areas. We are committed to helping create healthier communities worldwide through education, outreach, and better access to treatment. For those driven to live their lives with purpose, Viatris helps employees realise their full potential by creating a collaborative culture that fosters courage and resilience. Viatris is more than just a place to work. This is a place to make a difference in the world. The Role & What You Will Be Doing Every day, we rise to the challenge to make a difference, and here’s how the Director, Global Commercial Strategy & Launch Planning role will make an impact: Develop and maintain the long-range commercial plan for Selatogrel, integrating patient-flow insights, epidemiology, market sizing, pricing and access assumptions, supply considerations, and investment needs. Design scalable go-to-market models and launch sequencing recommendations that reflect market opportunity, healthcare system dynamics, regulatory, access, supply, and market readiness requirements. Partner with Global Market Access and HEOR to ensure payer value strategy, pricing scenarios, economic models, Global Value Dossier, payer communications, and access insights are translated into brand strategy, launch planning, and affiliate planning tools. Manage the global commercial budget in partnership with Finance, ensuring investment priorities, resource allocation, and budget phasing align with strategic objectives and launch readiness needs. Lead strategic workstreams, business case development, and scenario planning, translating assumptions, risks, trade-offs, investment implications, and business impact into clear executive-level recommendations. Develop, track, assess, and align the organization around key launch performance metrics. Provide commercial input into Strategic Lifecycle Plans for the cardiology portfolio and pipeline, while partnering with New Product Planning and Business Development to identify future internal and external growth opportunities, where relevant. About Your Skills & Experience For this role, we’re looking for a candidate who has an effective combination of the following qualifications, skills, and experiences: Bachelor’s degree in Life Sciences, Business, or related field required; advanced degree such as MBA, MSc, PharmD, or equivalent preferred. Minimum 10 years of pharmaceutical or biotech commercial experience, including global or regional leadership roles. Minimum 5 years of experience in new product planning, portfolio strategy, commercial strategy, launch planning, or a related role, with demonstrated ability to partner cross-functionally, shape strategic plans, and prepare markets for commercialization. Experience developing, integrating, or pressure-testing business cases, forecasts, investment scenarios, country plans, launch assumptions, and launch readiness frameworks. Strong understanding of how pricing, reimbursement, affordability, healthcare system dynamics, and country execution realities shape commercial strategy. Strong business acumen, financial management, resource prioritization, and executive communication. Experience working in complex matrix organizations and influencing cross-functional stakeholders without direct authority. High standard of integrity and commitment to compliance and ethical conduct. Fluent in English; additional languages a plus. Willingness to travel internationally, approximately 20–30%. Strategic and analytical, with strong commercial architecture skills and the ability to simplify complexity into clear choices. Enterprise-minded, balancing global strategy with country-level impact, execution realities, and business priorities. Pragmatic, structured, and outcome-oriented, with the ability to establish new ways of working and translate strategy into execution. Collaborative and influential, with the confidence to pressure-test assumptions, constructively challenge stakeholders, and align teams without direct authority. Independent and hands-on, with the ability to drive progress in a fast-moving environment. Focused on creating value for patients, healthcare systems, markets, and the business. Preferred experience: Cardiovascular experience, experience with first-in-class or novel therapies and experience building new commercial processes, launch planning frameworks, or team operating models. At Viatris, we are dedicated to building a truly diverse, inclusive, and authentic workplace, so if you’re excited about this role but your past experience doesn’t fully align with every requirement, we still encourage you to apply. You may just be the right candidate for this or other roles. Why Viatris? At Viatris, we offer competitive salaries, benefits, and an inclusive environment where you can use your experiences, perspectives, and skills to help make an impact on the lives of others. You will also have the opportunity to access excellent career progression opportunities and work-life balance initiatives. Diversity & Inclusion at Viatris At Viatris, diversity and inclusion are essential to our mission. The diversity we foster in all aspects of our business can be one of our greatest strengths in redefining healthcare, not as it is, but as it should be. If you would like to know more about what diversity, equity, and inclusion means to us, please visit https://www.viatris.com/en/Careers/Diversity-and-Inclusion Sustainability at Viatris Corporate social responsibility is fundamental to the Viatris mission. We work to advance responsible and sustainable operations and leverage our collective expertise to empower people to live healthier at every stage of life, recognizing that our actions affect the stakeholders and communities we serve. To learn more about our efforts, please visit https://www.viatris.com/en/about-us/corporate-responsibility At Viatris, we offer competitive salaries, benefits and an inclusive environment where you can use your experiences, perspectives and skills to help make an impact on the lives of others. Viatris is an Equal Opportunity Employer.