Senior CMO Project Manager

Mission

The CMO Project Manager role plays a vital role in driving transformative change and operational excellence for the Global Marketing. It will be responsible of ensuring excellence in all transversal marketing projects, including implementation and performance of them.

It works as a strategic partner to the global brand marketing teams and is the key interface between transversal teams.

Tasks and Responsibilities

• Oversees and coordinate strategic cycles each year: Long Term forecast (15yrs overview), 5Year Forecast Exercise, Budget (+1year) and Brand Plan Process (3 sprints).

• 5-Year Forecast Exercise Process: Oversees the development of the process, incorporating inputs from various stakeholders.

• Global Brand Plan Process: Ensures integrated approach and collaboration to create strong Global Brand Plans.

• Assumption Deck Process: Facilitate interactions with Marketing, Market Insights and Global Medical Affairs teams and data compilation to create yearly assumption decks for decision-making.

• Launch Readiness Review (LRR) Process: Participates in LLR process supporting launch preparation and execution tracking related to Product Strategy (-18/-12m, -6m, +6m).

• Leadership Meetings: Participates in certain LT meetings providing data related to Performance Dashboards or organizing agendas, consolidating presentations as required.

• Dashboard coordination (eg. MOSAIC): Leads dashboard implementation and motivates regular use for presentations and business discussions. Is also responsible for updating o developing dashboards as business partner for IT.
• Coordinate activities between the CMO areas to foster seamless collaboration and efficient workflows.
• Increase responsiveness of existing operations and help define new operational strategies by working with the CMO department and other executives on special projects.
• Identifies optimization opportunities to improve performance and drive efficiencies and support simplicity goals.
• Development opportunity: Supports ad-hoc projects for Market Companies Ex-EU5 as part of Marketing Excellence agenda.

Education

• BA Required; Master’s-level education is a bonus.

Experience

• Candidates demonstrate experiences and capabilities including: the ability to influence and collaborate with peers, oversee, and guide the work of other colleagues to achieve meaningful outcomes and create business impact.
• At least five years of experience in project management. Pharmaceutical industry experience is preferred.  

Skills and competencies

• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills. Excellent English level is required.
• Highly accountable, proactive problem-solver, and able to handle competing priorities.
• Experience in working with diverse markets and cultures.
• Strong project/program management skills, PMI Project Management Certification preferred.
• Demonstrated history of supporting or managing innovation, growth, simplification process to deliver measurable value add and change.

Values

    • Care: we listen & empathize, we value diverse perspectives & backgrounds and we help each other succeed
    • Courage: we challenge the status quo, we take full ownership and we learn from our success & failures
    • Innovation: we put the patient and customer at the center, we create novel solutions and we empower entrepreneurial mindsets
    • Simplicity: we act decisively and avoid over-analysis, we understand why before we act and we are agile & keep things simple.