Consultant, Pharmaceutical Development and Commercialization

About IPM

For more than three decades, IPM has partnered with pharmaceutical, biotechnology, and medical technology organizations to successfully lead the execution of strategic portfolios and mission‑critical initiatives. IPM works with clients to improve project, program, and portfolio execution across product development, regulatory affairs, quality, commercialization, launch readiness, lifecycle management, and operational transformation.

IPM is seeking experienced professionals to lead complex pharmaceutical projects across the product lifecycle—from development and regulatory execution through commercialization, launch readiness, and post‑launch management. The ideal candidate combines strong project and program leadership with hands‑on product lifecycle leadership experience and can successfully operate across a wide range of client environments.

This role is designed for professionals who can lead development‑focused initiatives while also bringing commercialization and launch‑readiness experience. Successful consultants will build structure, drive accountability, manage risks, facilitate decision‑making, and deliver executive‑ready outputs that move critical programs forward.

• Lead cross‑functional pharmaceutical development programs across pre‑clinical, clinical, regulatory, CMC, quality, supply chain, commercialization, and post‑approval stages
• Develop and maintain integrated project plans aligned to business objectives, critical milestones, and regulatory requirements

• Lead planning and execution for regulatory submission readiness, inspection readiness, quality system improvements, technology transfer, manufacturing scale‑up, labeling, and supply initiatives.

• Develop integrated launch readiness plans spanning Commercial, Medical Affairs, Market Access, Regulatory, Supply Chain, Patient Services, and Analytics functions.
• Facilitate launch readiness assessments, governance reviews, milestone tracking, and post‑launch stabilization planning.
• Support initiatives involving market access, pricing and contracting, reimbursement, HEOR/RWE, patient access, specialty pharmacy, field readiness, and commercial operations.

• 8–15+ years of experience within the pharmaceutical industry leading: product development lifecycle projects, regulatory, quality and operational readiness initiatives, and commercialization and launch readiness projects
• Minimum 3 years of project or program management experience or equivalent cross‑functional leadership responsibility
• Demonstrated success leading complex initiatives involving senior stakeholders.
• Excellent executive communication, facilitation, documentation, and stakeholder‑management skills

• Diverse projects: we take on a wide variety of project work, ensuring significant exposure to a variety of clients and a broad range of opportunities to grow your professional experience
• Collaborative work environment: we have a well‑structured system to bring support from managers, internal teams, and our Centers of Excellence (CoE), which serve as resources and SME’s for specific services and industry knowledge, tools, and best practices
• Family with engaging culture: we believe in protecting our greatest asset, our people, with a culture that nurtures a caring environment with a transparent communication approach, culture‑building and team‑building events, both regional and company wide
• Professional development: we're committed to your training and development. You’ll get a thorough onboarding to ensure you’re prepared while creating the bandwidth you need to further your career  are IPM’s future; we only promote from within
• High visibility and direct client impact: you’ll have the opportunity to shape how your clients achieve their network strategies through well planned and executed capital projects.
• Comprehensive compensation and benefits program: including 100% employer‑paid health, 401(k) matching, business development incentives, and performance bonus amongst many…