Product Manager - France
PTC Therapeutics is a global commercial biopharmaceutical company. For over 25 years our team has been deeply committed to a unified purpose: Extending life’s moments for children and adults living with a rare disease.
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Job Description Summary:
The Product Manager – France is a key role in supporting the French commercial teams in achieving sales excellence. This includes, but may not be limited to, driving marketing strategy, cross-functional projects, enabling the field force, and ensuring smooth execution of sales strategies.
Job Description:
The role focuses on enhancing the effectiveness of the marketing and sales organization, focused on these pillars:
Marketing: Identify the key market drivers, develop promotional materials leveraging available global resources, and craft the key messages for the field teams.
Commercial project leadership: Support the development and execution of strategy and collaborative commercial projects.
Sales effectiveness: Coordinate and execute activities with hospitals and pharmacies, train the team on the promotional messages, and coordinate the implementation and follow-up of account plans.
Marketing:
- Analyze market trends, customer insights, competitor activity, and the healthcare environment to identify opportunities and risks.
- Define and support the brand strategy for the French market in alignment with global and local priorities.
- Develop promotional materials adapted to local needs, while ensuring consistency, relevance, and compliance.
- Build clear and impactful key messages for the sales force to support effective customer engagement.
- Train and support field teams to ensure strong execution and consistent brand positioning in the market.
Commercial project leadership:
- Identify and prioritize commercial projects based on market knowledge and insights gathered from HCPs.
- Lead and coordinate cross-functional commercial projects to ensure strong collaboration, timely delivery, and effective implementation.
- Monitor project progress, manage key deliverables, and help ensure successful rollout of collaborative commercial programs.
Sales effectiveness:
- Coordinate and execute activities with hospitals and pharmacies to support commercial objectives and strengthen customer engagement.
- Train the team on promotional messages to ensure a clear, consistent, and impactful communication in the field.
- Coordinate the implementation of account plans in line with business priorities and local market needs.
- Monitor the follow-up of account plans, track progress, and support the team in delivering key actions effectively.
- Work closely with cross-functional stakeholders to ensure alignment, operational excellence, and successful execution of commercial initiatives.
Requirements for the role include:
- A Bachelor's degree in a relevant discipline is preferred, together with 5+ years of experience in pharmaceutical marketing and field roles, as well as demonstrated experience in external stakeholder management, and building collaborative relationships with key opinion leaders, OR an equivalent combination of education and professional experience.
- Proven experience working in fast-paced, dynamic, multicultural, and matrix environments, ideally within marketing and commercial roles in France.
- Strong ability to lead cross-functional initiatives, manage multiple priorities, and drive execution in collaboration with internal and external stakeholders.
- Strategic and analytical mindset, with the ability to identify business opportunities, interpret market and business data, and translate insights into actionable plans.
- Excellent communication, presentation, and influencing skills, with the ability to engage stakeholders at all levels and act as a change agent without direct authority.
- Proactive, adaptable, and results-oriented, with strong project management, problem-solving, organizational skills, and the ability to work independently while handling confidential information with discretion.
- Fluency in English.
- Experience working in a small but fast-growing, cross functional team environment.
* Travel requirements.
Up to 50%
EEO Statement:
PTC Therapeutics is an equal opportunity employer. We welcome applications from all individuals, regardless of race, color, national origin, gender, age, physical characteristics, social origin, disability, religion, family status, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, disability, veteran status or any unlawful criterion under applicable law. We are committed to treating all applicants fairly and avoiding discrimination.