Viatris

Global pharma selling generics and biosimilars

Director, Global Commercial Strategy & Launch Planning

Corporate StrategyConfirmed live in the last 24 hours

Full-timeRemote in SwitzerlandNo salary listed

About the Job

Requirements

A bachelor's degree in Life Sciences, Business, or a related field is required; an advanced degree such as an MBA, MSc, PharmD, or equivalent is preferred.
A minimum of 10 years of pharmaceutical or biotechnology commercial experience, including global or regional leadership roles, is required.
A minimum of 5 years of experience in new product planning, portfolio strategy, commercial strategy, launch planning, or a related role is required, 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 is required.
Strong understanding of how pricing, reimbursement, affordability, healthcare-system dynamics, and country-execution realities shape commercial strategy is required.
Strong business acumen, financial management, resource prioritization, and executive communication are required.
Experience working in complex matrix organizations and influencing cross-functional stakeholders without direct authority is required.
A high standard of integrity and commitment to compliance and ethical conduct are required.
Fluency in English is required.
Willingness to travel internationally approximately 20–30% is required.
The candidate should be strategic and analytical, with strong commercial architecture skills and the ability to simplify complexity into clear choices.
The candidate should be enterprise-minded, balancing global strategy with country-level impact, execution realities, and business priorities.
The candidate should be pragmatic, structured, and outcome-oriented, with the ability to establish new ways of working and translate strategy into execution.
The candidate should be collaborative and influential, able to pressure-test assumptions, constructively challenge stakeholders, and align teams without direct authority.
The candidate should be independent and hands-on, able to drive progress in a fast-moving environment.
The candidate should be focused on creating value for patients, healthcare systems, markets, and the business.

Responsibilities

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 translate payer-value strategy, pricing scenarios, economic models, the Global Value Dossier, payer communications, and access insights 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, partnering with New Product Planning and Business Development to identify future internal and external growth opportunities where relevant.

Desired Qualifications

Additional languages are a plus.
Cardiovascular experience is preferred.
Experience with first-in-class or novel therapies is preferred.
Experience building new commercial processes, launch-planning frameworks, or team operating models is preferred.

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; andotherofferings 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.

TheRole& WhatYouWillBeDoing

Every day, we rise to the challenge to make a difference,andhere’show 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.

AboutYourSkills &Experience

For this role,we’relooking 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 ifyou’reexcited about this role but yourpast experiencedoesn’tfully align with every requirement, we still encourage you to apply. You may justbethe right candidate for this or other roles.

Why Viatris?

At Viatris, we offercompetitive salaries, benefits,andan inclusive environment where you can use your experiences, perspectives,and skills to help make an impact on the lives of others.You will alsohave the opportunity toaccessexcellent career progression opportunities and work-life balance initiatives.

Diversity & Inclusion at Viatris

At Viatris,diversity and inclusion are essential toourmission. 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 visithttps://www.viatris.com/en/Careers/Diversity-and-Inclusion

Sustainabilityat 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 aboutour efforts, please visithttps://www.viatris.com/en/about-us/corporate-responsibility

At Viatris, we offercompetitivesalaries, benefitsandan 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.

About the Company

Viatris

Global pharma selling generics and biosimilars

Viatris is a global pharmaceutical company that provides access to medicines through a diverse portfolio of branded drugs, generics, complex generics, and biosimilars, serving patients in more than 165 countries. Medicines are produced and distributed via Viatris's extensive global supply chain and commercial network, making therapies available across cardiovascular, infectious diseases, immunology, and oncology. The company differentiates itself with a large, diversified product mix, broad international reach, and a focus on access and public health rooted in the Mylan-Upjohn lineage. Its strategy combines organic growth with partnerships and acquisitions to expand patient access while pursuing sustainable operations.

Company size: 10,001+
Company stage: IPO
Headquarters: Canonsburg, PA
Founded: 1961

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