Commercial Operation Lead

At Pierre Fabre Pharmaceuticals Inc. our mission is to deliver breakthrough therapies in oncology and rare diseases to patient populations with high unmet needs and limited treatment options. Our belief is that every time we care for a single person, we make the whole world better. We are the US pharmaceutical subsidiary of Pierre Fabre Laboratories Worldwide, a foundation-owned company with 7 decades of impact.

Pierre Fabre Laboratories is a truly global healthcare company, established in 43 countries, with products distributed in 119 territories across the globe. Pierre Fabre's foundation ownership enhances our ability to focus on creating long-term value for patients.

Building on the legacy of Pierre Fabre Laboratories, innovation is our life blood and patient experience drives everything we do. We aspire to design and develop therapeutic solutions inspired by patients and healthcare professionals; draw on science and nature as perpetual sources of inspiration; develop long-term partnerships with researchers and innovators worldwide; and place pharmaceutical ethics and climate transition at the heart of our action.

Pierre Fabre Pharmaceuticals is headquartered in Secaucus, NJ alongside Pierre Fabre USA Inc., a Pierre Fabre Laboratories subsidiary focused on dermatology and cosmetics.

The Commercial Operations Lead will serve as a strategic and operational partner to the Head of Commercial, helping enhance local operations, transfer best practices, and build stronger alignment between global and local teams, as well as optimizing efficient cross-functional collaboration.

This role offers a unique opportunity to gain broad cross-functional business exposure, build enterprise perspective, and accelerate professional growth through close partnership with senior leadership.

• Act as central orchestrator of PFP commercial organizational priorities across functions including leading the definition and tracking of launch KPI’s, strategic planning, new hire on-boarding, Commercial org. culture, senior leadership reporting, coordination of forecast preparation, slide presentation preparation for Senior leadership reviews, etc.
• Lead priority Commercial activities, coordinating commercial team alignment, execution and performance tracking against strategic priorities, including regular reporting to PFP LT and HQ partners in France
• Work collaboratively with PFP LT on cross-functional execution of key business initiatives, leading or supporting coordination, execution and tracking
• Ensure visibility and tracking of critical initiatives and risks, report on those to the Head of Commercial and CLT

• Exceptional learning agility with the ability to rapidly grow, adapt, and take on increasing responsibility, serving as a strategic thought partner and operational lead to the Head of Commercial.
• Coordinate Commercial Leadership Team (CLT) agenda, priorities, and follow-up: monthly onsite, weekly Round Robin
• Serve as interface with HQ on Commercial operational topics, including monthly HQ/PFP Cross-Team Governance meetings.

• Manage Commercial Budget including Finance submissions ensuring timely input and alignment form commercial stakeholders (open POs, review of YTD actuals, Forecasting, Budget planning, etc)

• Team player with self-awareness, emotional maturity, low ego, strong work ethic, courage to speak up and appropriately challenge status quo including the Head of Commercial
• Operate with high autonomy and ownership
• Able to influence and drive outcomes without formal authority, partnering positively and effectively with leaders and cross-functional teams
• Coordinate closely with functional leads and required PFP stakeholders

• Clear, concise, structured communicator ensuring alignment leading to efficient successful operational execution
• Strong analytic acumen and ability to effectively communicate (verbal and written) complex concepts to non-experts

• Strong operational acumen, establish appropriate level of process to deliver against commitments, ensuring efficient operational execution while striking a balance with flexibility, time to completion and quality
• Demonstrate structured, fact-based, analytic decision support
• Proactively communicate, anticipate issues, taking the initiative in generating and effectively…