Senior Director Commercial Operations
Date:
Dec 18, 2025
Location:
Haarlem, Netherlands, 2031 GA
Company:
Teva Pharmaceuticals
Job Id:
65106
Who we are
Together, we’re on a mission to make good health more affordable and accessible, to help millions around the world enjoy healthier lives. It’s a mission that bonds our people across nearly 60 countries and a rich, diverse variety of nationalities and backgrounds. Working here means working with the world’s leading manufacturer of generic medicines, and the proud producer of many of the products on the World Health Organization’s Essential Medicines List. Today, at least 200 million people around the world take one of our medicines every single day. An amazing number, but we’re always looking for new ways to continue making a difference, and new people to make a difference with.
The opportunity
The Sr. Director Commercial Operations leads product management, pricing strategy, and launch execution across the Medis portfolio, ensuring alignment with the company’s growth objectives. This role collaborates with customers, regulatory and IP teams, and senior leadership to drive successful product strategies, launches, and site transfers.
Possible working locations: Iceland & The Netherlands
How you’ll spend your day
- Organizes the Commercial operations department, defines its yearly work plans and the department routines and infrastructure, and manages the daily work of the department and the planning of the needed resources.
- The Sr. Director Commercial Operations is overseeing the overall product management within Medis for products throughout its lifecycle and the creation and maintenance of product strategies for products including regulatory strategy in collaboration with clusters and management of the available MA’s.
- The Sr. Director Commercial Operations is overseeing the commercial price management for all products both pipeline and in active supply, including establishment of base prices, pricing strategy and handling of low margins. He/she is responsible for reviewing and advising on action plans on low margin products / contracts.
- The Sr. Director Commercial Operations is responsible to build and maintain a firm launch management infrastructure, to define yearly and long term launch work plans, and successfully execute accordingly while collaborating with external and internal key stakeholders
- The Sr. Director Commercial Operations is overseeing the overall project management of client launches and transfers between manufacturing sites.
- Responsible for promoting Medis brand and its unique value propositions and offering through different marketing channels and management of global events or conferences that Medis participates in fx. CPhI.
- Works closely with the Clusters and other functions to add value to organization’s profitability, growth and international reputation and ensure that overall organizational objectives are met.
- Responsible for recruiting, leading, mentoring and developing team members within the cluster.
- In collaboration ensure alignment and full integration with Medis and Teva support functions and provide leadership and support as needed
- Requirement to review and update CV and JD regularly to accurately reflect role.
Your experience and qualifications
- Bachelor’s Degree in Pharmacy, Life Sciences, Business or related field of study
- 10+ Years of related experience
- Deep experience and knowledge of the generic pharmaceutical business
- Experience with commercial management and knowledge of regulatory/compliance requirements essential
- Fluency in the English language
- Strong commercial leadership with ability to lead for success
- Ambitious with a strategic and results oriented mindset
- Critical analytical, planning skills and flexibility to adapt to changes
- Superior process improvement skills
- Strong commercial acumen, interpersonal, collaboration, and communication skills
- Proven ability to build and manage successful teams
- Strong strategical and tactical negotiation skills
- Ability to develop and successfully execute strategy
- Ability to work well in high pressure situations in order to meet deadlines
- Ability to deliver solutions on time and on budget, while generating superior results
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