Position Summary
The Project Manager is responsible for supporting key marketing initiatives across various teams, ensuring seamless execution and alignment with organizational goals. This role involves managing timelines, coordinating cross-functional teams, and driving execution for strategic projects such as brand planning, product launches and portfolio projects.
Key Responsibilities
- Develop and manage project timelines, ensuring deadlines are met for brand planning, launch readiness and other strategic initiatives.
- Support end-to-end planning and execution of project and launch readiness, ensuring successful delivery against business objectives.
- Serve as the central point of coordination across teams, facilitating communication and alignment.
- Identify and manage risks, dependencies, and bottlenecks, proactively working to resolve issues.
- Support cross-functional collaboration by organizing meetings, tracking deliverables, and ensuring clear accountability.
- Provide updates and clear communication to project stakeholders and leadership on project status, challenges, and opportunities for acceleration.
Qualifications & Key Competencies
- Bachelor’s degree required.
- 3+ years of project management experience, with the ability to manage multiple initiatives simultaneously.
- Experience in pharmaceutical or healthcare marketing required.
- Strong proficiency in project management tools (i.e., Microsoft Project).
- PMP certification is a plus.
- Knowledge of pharmaceutical marketing processes, including but not limited to promotional material development and regulatory/legal review.
- Launch excellence experience is a plus.
- Ability to navigate complex stakeholder environments and drive execution.
- Experience in brand planning is preferred.
- Excellent communication, organizational and project management skills.
Accountability for Results -
Stay focused on key strategic objectives, be accountable for high standards of performance, and take an active role in leading change.
Strategic Thinking & Problem Solving -
Make decisions considering the long-term impact to customers, patients, employees, and the business.
Patient & Customer Centricity -
Maintain an ongoing focus on the needs of our customers and/or key stakeholders.
Impactful Communication -
Communicate with logic, clarity, and respect. Influence at all levels to achieve the best results for Otsuka.
Respectful Collaboration -
Seek and value others’ perspectives and strive for diverse partnerships to enhance work toward common goals.
Empowered Development -
Play an active role in professional development as a business imperative.
Salary
Minimum $107,718.00 - Maximum $161,000.00, plus incentive opportunity: The range shown represents a typical pay range or starting pay for individuals who are hired in the role to perform in the United States. Other elements may be used to determine actual pay such as the candidate’s job experience, specific skills, and comparison to internal incumbents currently in role. Typically, actual pay will be positioned within the established range, rather than at its minimum or maximum. This information is provided to applicants in accordance with states and local laws.
Application Deadline
This will be posted for a minimum of 5 business days.
Company benefits
- Comprehensive medical
- dental
- vision
- prescription drug coverage
- company provided basic life
- accidental death & dismemberment
- short-term and long-term disability insurance
- tuition reimbursement
- student loan assistance
- a generous 401(k) match
- flexible time off
- paid holidays
- paid leave programs as well as other company provided benefits.
Disclaimer
This job description is intended to describe the general nature and level of the work being performed by the people assigned to this position. It is not intended to include every job duty and responsibility specific to the position. Otsuka reserves the right to amend and change responsibilities to meet business and organizational needs as necessary.
Otsuka is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants are encouraged to apply and will be given consideration for employment without regard to race, color, sex, gender identity or gender expression, sexual orientation, age, disability, religion, national origin, veteran status, marital status, or any other legally protected characteristic.
If you are a qualified individual with a disability or a disabled veteran, you may request a reasonable accommodation, if you are unable or limited in your ability to apply to this job opening as a result of your disability. You can request reasonable accommodations by contacting
Otsuka America Pharmaceutical Inc., Otsuka Pharmaceutical Development & Commercialization, Inc., and Otsuka Precision Health, Inc. (“Otsuka”) does not accept unsolicited assistance from search firms for employment opportunities. All CVs/resumes submitted by search firms to any Otsuka employee directly or through Otsuka’s application portal without a valid written search agreement in place for the position will be considered Otsuka’s sole property. No fee will be paid if a candidate is hired by Otsuka as a result of an agency referral where no pre-existing agreement is in place. Where agency agreements are in place, introductions are position specific. Please, no phone calls or emails.
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