Director, Commercial Program Management

The Position

Arrowhead is looking for an experienced Program Manager at the Director level with the leadership, passion and creativity to bring great medicines for cardiometabolic diseases to patients that need them. The individual will be a self-starter with excellent leadership, communications and project management skills sufficient to build strong rapport across many separately-managed functions.

The successful candidate will be ready for a career-defining experience and have the passion to drive a number of therapeutics to successful commercialization. This position will report to the Group VP Program Management and will act as the Global Product Team (PT) Manager responsible for ensuring effective global launch, life cycle management and product strategy for multiple late stage and commercial products. Experience in late-stage drug development and commercial stage assets is critical.

This role is based in Pasadena, California, with an expectation to be in office 5 days a week.

Responsibilities

• Ensure cross-functional global product teams define effective product strategy, long range planning and life cycle management. 
• Coordinate product team meetings, shape agendas, record meeting minutes, etc. as necessary.
• Ensure coordination with Global partners and vendors, as appropriate, to support ex-U.S. product launches.
• Coordinates the process for the creation, maintenance and execution of the integrated product launch for one or more late stage and commercial pharmaceutical products.
• Works cross-functionally with commercial, finance, clinical, regulatory, medical affairs, CMC and other functions to ensure commercialization success.
• Identify issues and seek resolution through internal negotiation, support, and governance.
• Responsible for ensuring development of the operational plan including realistic timelines, budget and resources planning, cross-functional interdependencies, risk assessment and contingency planning.
• Ensures cross-functional alignment and organizational support for the execution of the operational plan by facilitating internal and external stakeholder meetings.
• Responsible for monitoring and tracking the project against approved timelines and milestones and ensures adherence to agreed-upon team objectives and deliverables.
• Works with key stakeholders to prioritize program team activities to enhance program value.
• Responsible for comprehensiveness and quality of program information in the internal systems and databases.
• Expected to identify bottlenecks, surface issues, and proactively drive for their resolution.
• Challenges assumptions, timelines and expenses on program level.
• Works with functional leaders to manage project variance and root cause analysis, develops risk mitigation / issue management plans with the objective to meet the financial targets.
• Ensures effective, proactive and open communications in order to achieve transparency and clarity of program goals, progress and issues.
• Responsible for high performing and healthy cross-functional program team
• Identifies and helps to resolve conflicts at functional team level
• Maintains strong, collaborative relationships with cross-functional leaders.

 Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in biology, chemistry, business, or related area
• 10+ years in the life-sciences, pharmaceutical industry
• At least 5+ years equivalent multi-/ cross-functional program leadership experience
• Previous work and leadership experience in program management of globally approved medicines.
• Broad operational experience with an understanding of drug development, launch and commercialization process.
• Advanced Project Management skills
• Ability to work collaboratively in a matrixed, team-based environment, with strong organizational and time management capabilities
• Advanced knowledge of regulatory and business requirements
• Understands basic financial aspects, including knowledge of resource planning (headcount and budget) and management
• Expert planning and tracking skills, able to see big picture, well-organized, focused on results, capable of managing multiple projects, excellent time management with respect to priorities and self-management
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills for bridging between scientific and business participants, for negotiating timelines and for effective collaboration.
• Strong verbal communication. Expert in written communications.
• You may be required to travel for up to 10% of your time

Preferred

• Advanced degree (e.g., MBA or Master’s in a related field).
• PMP Certification
• Experience in cardiometabolic therapeutic area