MLR Planning Manager

Introduction to role

Orchestrate the Medical, Legal, and Regulatory process so that breakthrough brand messages are approved and ready the moment labels launch. Connect science to market by ensuring every promotional and disease awareness asset is accurate, compliant and on time.

Accountabilities

• End-to-End MLR Orchestration: Lead and coordinate timely review and approval of promotional and disease awareness materials, ensuring medical accuracy and regulatory compliance that enables assets to launch on schedule.
• Stakeholder Leadership: Build strong, proactive partnerships across Marketing, Medical, Legal, Regulatory, Agency and Content Delivery teams to align on brand priorities, resolve issues early and maintain momentum.
• Standards and Governance: Champion adherence to our Marketing Guide, acting as a subject matter expert on approval processes and compliance guidelines; coach teams on what good looks like to reduce rework and cycle time.
• Day 0 Launch Readiness: Define and implement the MLR planning strategy for new product and indication launches, data releases and label updates to ensure assets are ready for immediate deployment upon approval, aligned to brand strategy.
• Campaigns and Events: Set the MLR planning approach for congresses and other major brand activities; translate event objectives into a prioritized asset plan that manages reviewer capacity and protects critical path timelines.
• Team Leadership and Capacity Management: Lead an MLR Planning Associate team responsible for prioritizing assets, balancing reviewer workload, and maintaining visibility of progress and risks across portfolios.
• Consult Process Enablement: Facilitate pre-MLR consults so content owners and reviewers align on guidance upfront, decreasing late-stage changes and improving first-pass approval rates.
• Risk Management and Communication: Use PM platforms to track achievements, surface risks and communicate status clearly to partners; drive decisions that safeguard timelines and compliance.
• Continuous Improvement: Analyze review cycle data to identify bottlenecks, refine operating mechanisms and scale best practices that make the process more efficient and predictable across brands.

Essential Skills/Experience

• Bachelor's degree
• 5 – 7 years of relevant professional experience, with a focus on pharmaceutical marketing operations or healthcare related agency roles
• Demonstrated success in People leadership
• Experience with managing supplier partners
• Independent self-starter with demonstrated program management skillset
• Demonstrated strong oral and written communications
• Ability to effectively work in a cross-functional team environment
• Experience using various PM platforms to plan, manage and communicate project risks / progress
• Ability to lead and influence without formal authority
• Demonstrated success leading program management of strategic and/or business critical initiatives without formal authority

Desirable Skills/Experience

• Knowledge of the MLR process that ensures timely reviews and approval of assets that are accurate and compliant
• Experience with Digital and Omnichannel campaigns
• Understanding of scientific and/or commercial marketplace respective to biopharmaceutical therapeutic area(s)