Hybrid Launch Manager

at Orion

• Job title: Launch Manager
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Senior, Lead
• Salary: Not specified
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Hyderabad, India

About the role

• Launch Manager leading strategic product launches across Generics and Consumer Health portfolio in the pharmaceutical industry. Managing cross-functional teams and ensuring timely delivery of launches.

Responsibilities

• Lead cross-functional launch teams, ensuring alignment and collaboration across all functions.
• Lead scenario planning and development of contingency plans to proactively address potential risks, delays, or shifts in market conditions, ensuring the team is prepared to adapt and respond effectively.
• Identify the optimal momentum to launch. Creating ambitious and realistic timelines and overseeing the entire launch process.
• Ensure achievement of business objectives, evaluating the business case/profitability throughout the launch. Preparing a recommendation for decision making if there are signs that the objectives may not be met, including coordinating a no launch decision when necessary.
• Ensure that launch status and launch-related information are up to date in internal systems. Maintaining active oversight of all launch-related information, ensuring data accuracy and reliability.
• Act as the primary communicator of the launch view, proactively addressing and resolving critical issues.
• Prepare and present proposals for launch-related business decisions to senior management.
• Ensure timely and accurate reporting of launch progress and escalating issues as per internal guidance and requests.

Requirements

• 10 + years of experience in the pharmaceutical industry, with experience in the Generics sector and with at least 8 years in launch management or project management.
• Good understanding of European regulatory processes and solid experience in collaborating with finished-product suppliers (manufacturing partners).
• Experience in leading cross-functional teams across diverse cultural and organizational contexts.
• Ability to understand the big picture and long-term while balancing with details and short-term priorities.
• Strong leadership skills, with the ability to inspire, challenge, and align stakeholders toward shared goals.
• Excellent networking and communication skills.
• Proven ability to manage multiple, simultaneous launch cases/projects with efficiency and strategic oversight.
• A proactive mindset, a strong sense of ownership, and a willingness to continuously learn and adapt.
• The capability to thrive in complex, cross-functional, and international environments, navigating ambiguity with confidence and clarity.
• Strong emotional intelligence and the ability to foster a constructive, solution-oriented team environment.