Job Purpose
The Associate Director, Marketing Operations & Launch Excellence will own the integrated launch and readiness plan, aligning marketing and cross-functional partners to ensure critical milestones are achieved from BLA through launch. This individual will drive governance and cross-functional execution through a clear tracking system, ensuring timelines, accountabilities, and dependencies are transparent and actively managed. This role will also lead launch readiness meetings and sub-teams, serving as the operational backbone that keeps the organization coordinated and on track through launch. This individual will report to the Vice President, Marketing.
Major Accountabilities- Pre-launch:
- Integrated launch plan ownership: Own the integrated launch and readiness plan, aligning Marketing with Market Access, Medical, Sales, and Regulatory etc to ensure critical milestones are achieved from BLA through launch
- Governance & tracking: Build and maintain a clear governance framework and master tracker, ensuring transparent timelines, accountabilities, dependencies, and risks across all launch workstreams
- Launch readiness reviews: Lead recurring launch readiness meetings and cross-functional sub-teams, driving decisions, escalating risks, and ensuring accountable owners are identified for every open item
- Risk & dependency management: Proactively identify cross-functional risks, bottlenecks, and dependencies
- Resource & capacity planning: Partner with Marketing leadership to ensure adequate resourcing, sequencing, and prioritization of launch-critical workstreams
- Executive reporting: Provide clear, consolidated status reporting and escalation to senior leadership on launch readiness, risks, and mitigation plans
- Post-launch
- In-market execution tracking: Continue governance and tracking discipline through early in-market execution, ensuring post-launch workstreams stay on track
- PRC/MLR governance: Oversee MLR process and governance, ensuring efficient, compliant, and timely review and approval of marketing materials
- Budget & contract management: Manage marketing budget processes, purchase orders, and contract workflows, ensuring fiscal discipline and transparent reporting
- Congress & event logistics: Oversee planning and operational logistics for commercial congress presence and marketing events
- Print & fulfillment: Manage printing, fulfillment, and distribution processes for field and promotional materials
- Speaker bureau operations: Oversee speaker bureau operations — including speaker contracting ensuring programs run efficiently and within regulatory and legal guidelines
Your profile
Job RequirementsEducation:- Bachelor’s degree required
- Advanced degree (MSc, MBA, PhD, PharmD, or MD) preferred.
Experience:- 5+ years of pharmaceutical/biotech experience, with a mix of Marketing and Marketing/Commercial Operations experience
- Direct experience with at least one product launch in a marketing or operations role
- Experience managing MLR and leading large cross-functional meetings
Skills/knowledge/behavioural competencies:- Strong process design and governance skills
- Project management rigor — comfort managing complex, multi-workstream timelines with many interdependencies and stakeholders
- High attention to detail and organizational rigor
Why us?
An exciting job opportunity awaits you!
MoonLake is a dynamic and innovative company pushing the boundaries of possibility, and we are looking for passionate individuals to join our stellar team.
What we offer:
Learning Environment: An opportunity to learn and grow alongside experienced professionals in a supportive and innovative biotech environment.
Impactful Work: Contribute to ground-breaking projects that have the potential to transform global healthcare.
Flexibility and Balance: Enjoy a healthy work-life balance while making meaningful contributions to our team.
Career Growth: A clear path for career progression, with the chance to take on more responsibilities as you develop your skills.
About us
MoonLake Immunotherapeuticsis a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company unlocking the potential of sonelokimab, a novel investigational Nanobody® for the treatment of the inflammatory disease, to revolutionize outcomes for patients.
We continue to make significant progress in our Global Clinical Development Programs. The company’s focus is on inflammatory diseases with a major unmet need, including hidradenitis suppurativa and psoriatic arthritis – conditions affecting millions of people worldwide with a large need for improved treatment options. MoonLake was founded in 2021 and is headquarted in Zug, with hubs in Cambridge & Porto.
Further information is available at www.moonlaketx.com
