Nephrology Launch Lead, International

Job Description

The Nephrology Launch Lead International is responsible for launch readiness and diagnostic strategy in the International region with a main focus on accelerating launch preparation, accurate diagnosis, and patient identification. The role drives cross‑functional execution across Commercial, Medical, Market Access, and external partners to enable timely, compliant adoption of diagnostic pathways, pre‑launch/customer engagement, and launch execution. It establishes scalable frameworks and metrics that translate scientific insights into actionable commercial plans while maintaining high ethical standards and patient‑centricity.

• Own the end‑to‑end international launch roadmap for Nephrology, from disease awareness to patient identification, referral, and appropriate next steps, adapting to country‑specific requirements for all key markets International.
• Develop key stakeholder mapping and engagement plans across nephrologists, pathologists, payers and patient organizations; ensure compliant, fair‑balanced materials and interactions.
• Partner closely with Medical Affairs to align scientific narratives, medical education, and data‑generation priorities; capture field insights to refine strategy and tactics.
• Collaborate with Market Access on evidence needs and value messaging to support reimbursement and funding for diagnostic services where relevant.
• Lead matrix teams across regions; coordinate with affiliates on launch readiness, capability building, and roll‑out of toolkits, training, and metrics.
• Develop and lead cross‑functional, commercial and digital projects across the region.
• Develop and lead the launch roadmap across the region.
• Supervise the Diagnostic Lead nephrology, integrate Diagnostic project as crucial part of the launch roadmap.
• Monitor KPIs and dashboards (e.g., diagnostic access, time‑to‑diagnosis, referral conversion, stakeholder reach/quality of engagement) and drive continuous improvement.
• Operate within all applicable laws, industry codes, and Sobi policies; uphold high standards of integrity, data privacy, and non‑promotional conduct. Ensure a two‑way dialogue with relevant global stakeholders to ensure launch readiness plans, best practices, and global initiatives are communicated appropriately.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of commercial or medical experience within rare diseases; direct experience in rare kidney diseases strongly preferred.
• Proven track record in international launch planning and execution, including diagnostic strategy development with labs/pathology and HCP networks.
• Strong understanding of nephrology care pathways, diagnostic modalities (e.g., complement testing, renal biopsy workflows), and barriers to patient identification.
• Demonstrated ability to lead through influence in a matrix, translate scientific insights into action, and deliver measurable outcomes.
• Excellent stakeholder management and cross‑functional collaboration; strong communication and scientific literacy.
• Confident, day‑to‑day user of enterprise AI productivity tools — Microsoft 365 Copilot (across Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Teams) — able to translate that fluency into faster, better team output.
• Comfortable reading and acting on commercial dashboards (Power BI or equivalent) and standard analytics outputs (segmentation, performance KPIs, omnichannel engagement metrics).
• Ability to scope digital and AI use cases— translating commercial needs into deliverable, compliant solutions and governing the work end‑to‑end.
• Fluent English; additional languages desirable.

Equal Opportunity Employer

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