Vice President Strategic Partnerships

About the Company:

Celltrion USA is Celltrion’s U.S. subsidiary established in 2018. Headquartered in New Jersey, Celltrion USA is committed to expanding access to biologics to improve care for U.S. patients. Celltrion USA will continue to leverage Celltrion’s unique heritage in biotechnology, supply chain excellence, and best-in-class sales capabilities to improve access to high-quality biopharmaceuticals for U.S. patients. Celltrion Healthcare, which suggested a new growth model in the Korean biopharmaceutical industry through biosimilars, is now advancing to new challenges to become a global pharmaceutical provider. Just as it has overcome many obstacles in the past, Celltrion Healthcare will successfully pave the path for global direct selling, which has never been achieved yet by Korean biopharmaceutical companies. As it continues to surpass its current success, Celltrion Healthcare will take a leap forward to become a leading global biopharmaceutical company.

Celltrion Healthcare provides biosimilar and innovative biopharmaceutical medications to help increase patient access to advanced therapies around the world.

POSITION SUMMARY

The Vice President Strategic Partnerships- Commercial Organization serves as a strategic thought partner and trusted operator to the Chief Commercial Officer (CCO) and the U.S. Commercial Leadership Team. This pivotal role sits at the center of the commercial organization’s most critical initiatives — connecting strategy to execution, driving alignment across business units, and ensuring the organization moves with clarity, speed, and purpose.

This is a unique opportunity to play an influential role in shaping how the Commercial organization operates, communicates, and delivers impact.

This role will report to the Chief Commercial Officer and work closely with the VP of Enterprise Strategy & Alignment to ensure commercial departmental input is aligned to enterprise priorities.

KEY ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

• Serve as the right-hand to the CCO of the U.S. Commercial Organization, enabling alignment of strategy to execution, and acting as a bridge between commercial leadership, functional partners, and the VP of Enterprise Strategy & Alignment overseeing the U.S. organization.
• Lead the planning, coordination and tracking of commercial strategic initiatives, including but not limited to annual business planning, long-range planning, product/brand launch readiness, and cross-franchise growth opportunities.
• Facilitate weekly (and ad hoc) meetings for the commercial leadership team: set agendas, prepare for the content for the meetings, manage logistics, capture action items, monitor follow-through and ensure clarity of deliverables.
• Develop weekly and ad hoc commercial performance reports and business reviews for the CCO and senior leadership
• Drive operational excellence across the commercial organization: design and optimize processes, remove execution barriers, coordinate cross-functional workstreams and ensure cross-function collaboration.
• Act as liaison between the Commercial organization and enterprise functions ensuring that commercial plans align with broader enterprise priorities and are executed compliantly.
• Lead special projects and high-visibility initiatives as assigned by the CCO and VP of Enterprise Strategy & Alignment – examples may include launch readiness programs, capability building efforts, commercial transformation initiatives, key commercial meetings/offsites, or sales team support.
• Provide high-quality executive communication: prepare slide decks, briefings, meeting materials for the CCO and senior leadership; ensure consistent messaging and narrative across the organization.

3. WORK EXPERIENCE

• Minimum of 10-15 years of progressive experience in the pharmaceutical or biotech industry, with deep exposure to commercial functions (e.g., marketing, sales, market access, strategic operations).
• Experience in management consulting, structuring and driving success of strategic projects simultaneously and ability to succinctly summarize, deliver insights, and gain executive buy-in strongly preferred
• Demonstrated track record of leading strategic planning, launching or managing brands and driving operational excellence in a commercial organization.
• Strong experience working cross-functionally in a matrix environment; demonstrated ability to influence without direct authority.
• Experience with budget governance, resource allocation, and scenario planning in a commercial context.
• Experience facilitating executive meeting cadence, preparing leadership materials, and managing operational / governance processes.

QUALIFICATIONS

• Financial acumen: understanding of commercial P&L drivers, investment decisions and ROI.
• Exceptional project and program management skills; ability to manage multiple priorities, timelines and stakeholders in parallel.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office (especially PowerPoint and Excel); familiarity with project management tools and business intelligence dashboards a plus.
• Willingness to travel (estimated 15-25%) as required across U.S. commercial hubs and leadership meetings.

EDUCATION

• MBA or advanced degree (e.g., MS, MBA, PharmD) strongly preferred.
• Additional credentials/certifications in business strategy, project / program management or leadership development are a plus.

Celltrion USA is an equal opportunity employer. It is our policy to employ qualified persons of the greatest ability without discrimination against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex (including pregnancy), physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, marital status, status as a protected veteran, or any other legally protected group status.

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