Senior Manager: Launch Excellence PMO (Product Management Office) at Pharma Dynamics (Pty) Ltd

Key Responsibilities

• Lead cross-functional initiatives to accelerate time to market of new products
• Manage and oversee the launch portfolio, ensuring prioritisation of initiatives in alignment with business objectives.
• Analyse and improve existing processes and ways of work to remove bottlenecks and barriers to success, promote timely decision-making, and increase overall process efficiency and speed
• Develop and maintain trackers and executive reporting mechanisms.
• Strengthen governance efficiency through standardised processes and accountability frameworks.

Integrated Launch Planning: Cross-functional collaboration

• Coordination, knowledge and influence spanning cross-functionally: Regulatory activities, manufacturing readiness, market access, Supply Chain, Quality, and commercial execution.
• Ensure alignment, accountability and ownership of deliverables across workstreams.
• Manage dependencies between functional teams and drive resolution of barriers to progress.

Critical Path & Timeline Management

• Drive initiatives to compress timelines where feasible without compromising quality or compliance.
• Improve milestone predictability and overall launch cycle time.
• Develop mitigation strategies and contingency plans.
• Ensure unresolved high-impact risks are escalated.

Process Improvement & Launch Excellence

• Develop, standardise and continuously improve launch methodologies, templates and governance frameworks.
• Establish repeatable launch processes that support scalability and efficiency.
• Capture lessons learned and maintain a launch excellence repository.
• Drive continuous improvement initiatives to improve launch predictability, performance and outcomes.

Requirements

PRE-REQUISITES

Education

• Bachelor’s Degree, Postgraduate Degree or Master’s Degree in project management or a related field.
• Proven track record in Project Management Office (PMO) leadership and governance.

Experience

• 5 – 10 years’ experience in pharmaceutical industry
• Experience in pharmaceutical product lifecycle management.
• Experience in cross-functional programme leadership and launch execution.
• Strong exposure to regulatory, supply chain, commercial and operational functions within the pharmaceutical industry.
• Experience managing complex portfolios, governance structures and strategic programmes.