New Partner & Product Integration Lead

Medison is a rapidly growing global pharmaceutical company with a strong international footprint operating across 4 continents and more than 24 countries. Our mission is to expand access to highly innovative therapies for patients suffering primarily from cancer and rare diseases across global markets. If you are motivated by impact complexity and building scalable global capabilities we invite you to join our mission.

We are seeking a highly skilled experienced and strategic New Partner and Product Integration (NPPI) Lead to drive endtoend excellence in onboarding planning and operational integration of new strategic partners into Medisons global ecosystem. This role will lead and coordinate all cross-functional activities - including Supply Chain Regulatory Affairs Pharmacovigilance Quality Assurance Finance Legal Medical and Commercial - ensuring alignment with the Medison Partner Integration Playbook. The primary objective is to enable rapid seamless integration of new partners while ensuring all activities remain on track for timely launch-ready product delivery. This role is critical to ensuring readiness alignment coordination and flawless execution across functions and geographies when introducing new partners assets or collaborations.

The NPPI Lead will design lead and continuously enhance Medisons global New Partner and Product Integration Playbook and framework acting as the central PMO and orchestration point across global and regional teams. The role partners closely with the Global Brand & Alliance Lead while owning structured planning risk mitigation governance and performance tracking from deal signing through full operational handover.

This is a global role requiring strong PMO expertise crossfunctional leadership strong business acumen and operational rigor in complex fastmoving environments. The position reports to the Global Head of Commercial Operations. Location is flexible preferably in Central Eastern Europe. Regular international travel is expected.

New Partner and Product Integration Strategy & Framework Development

• Develop refine and implement a standardized global New Partner and Product Integration (NPPI) framework including governance detailed playbooks templates and activity trackers to ensure consistent and high-quality partner onboarding across all regions.
• Design endtoend NPPI roadmaps and integrated plans covering commercial medical regulatory supply quality IT/data and financial readiness.
• Build structured timeline planning dependency mapping and milestone tracking tools to ensure alignment between Medison and partner organizations.
• Define and monitor clear KPIs dashboards and success metrics to track NPI progress readiness risks and value realization across countries and functions.

PMO Leadership & CrossFunctional Coordination

• Act as the central PMO lead for all New Partner Integrations ensuring disciplined planning execution and governance across multiple concurrent initiatives.
• Lead the global NPPI Steering Committees and Working Groups aligning Commercial Medical Market Access Regulatory Supply Chain Quality Alliance Management Finance IT and Legal teams.
• In close collaboration with the relevant global functional lead engage regional or local teams as needed to address specific issues ensuring they are resolved efficiently and promptly.
• Partner closely with Global Launch Excellence and Global Brand & Alliance Lead to translate deal terms into clear executable operational plans including aligned systems and processes supporting the delivery of integrated global go-to-market launch and brand plans with defined ownership and milestones.
• Proactively identify interdependencies resource constraints and critical path items driving timely decisionmaking and issue resolution.

Partner & Product Integration and Readiness Execution

• Lead structured partner onboarding transition and integration activities ensuring clear alignment on operating models systems and processes ways of working decision rights and escalation pathways.
• Lead the cross-functional NPPI Taskforce - including Tech Ops Finance and Commercial teams - to ensure the necessary infrastructure systems and processes are in place to successfully transition new products and enable commercial teams to execute their launch plans.
• Support local markets and global functions during preparation and execution phases to ensure readiness for asset transfer launch activities or ongoing collaboration.
• Facilitate formal readiness reviews risk assessments and challenge sessions at key NPI milestones.
• Anticipate gaps challenge assumptions and drive mitigation plans to protect timelines compliance and business objectives.

Process Systems & Governance

• Design implement own and continuously improve NPI processes templates digital tools and governance mechanisms to streamline planning reporting and execution.
• Ensure consistent adoption of PMO standards documentation and reporting across regions and functions.
• Drive a culture of accountability transparency and execution excellence enabling early escalation and datadriven decisionmaking.
• Capture lessons learned and translate them into continuous improvements and bestpractice standards for future partnerships.

Stakeholder Management & Communication

• Partner closely with Global Launch Excellence and Global Brand & Alliance Lead ensuring clarity empowerment and alignment throughout the NPI lifecycle.
• Build strong collaborative relationships with global functional leaders Regional Vice Presidents (RVPs) and Country Managers (CMs) and act as a trusted senior point of contact for both internal leadership and external partners on NPI progress risks and strategic matters.
• Serve as a trusted senior interface for internal leadership and external partners on NPI progress risks and strategic topics.
• Deliver concise highquality updates to executive leadership including status summaries scenario assessments and recommended actions.

Requirements:

• Proven expertise in leading complex multicountry crossfunctional initiatives within the pharmaceutical or biotech industry with strong exposure to partnerships alliances or asset inlicensing.
• Advanced PMO and program management capabilities including planning risk management dependency tracking and executive reporting.
• Strong analytical and structural thinking skills with the ability to synthesize complex information into clear insights and recommendations.
• Global mindset with experience operating across diverse geographies (e.g. EU/CEE APAC LATAM).
• High resilience and ability to navigate ambiguity evolving deal dynamics and competing priorities.
• Excellent communication and influencing skills capable of aligning senior stakeholders across functions and organizations.
• Strong business acumen problemsolving orientation and proactive mindset.
• Highly collaborative leader who constructively challenges assumptions and manages conflict professionally.
• Demonstrated ability to lead without formal authority and drive alignment in decentralized matrixed organizations.
• Highest ethical standards fostering trust integrity and respectful crossfunctional and external collaboration
• University degree in life sciences medicine pharmacy business or a related field; advanced degree strongly preferred.
• Minimum of 15 years experience in the innovative pharmaceutical or biotech industry with a strong focus on New Product Introduction and Partnership Integration operating as a global PMO across multiple functions including Technical Operations (Regulatory Affairs Supply Chain Quality Assurance Pharmacovigilance) as well as Medical Commercial Operations and Finance.
• Track record of successfully leading complex global or regional programs involving multiple stakeholders and external partners; strategy consulting background strongly preferred.
• Strong project and portfolio management expertise managing multiple workstreams simultaneously.
• Fluency in English; additional languages (particularly European or Asian) are an advantage.
• Ability to thrive in a fastpaced highgrowth global organization.
• Willingness and flexibility to travel internationally as required.