arGEN-X

Senior?Director, Commercialization Strategy & Operations Enablement

arGEN-X$236K — $324K *
Pharmaceuticals & Biotech
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Advanced degree (Master or MBA) in business or health-related discipline
  • Significant experience in strategic operations, business operations, or consulting supporting senior executives
  • Proven track record leading complex cross-functional strategic projects
  • At least 5 years of Project Management experience in a Pharmaceutical or Biotech environment
  • Strong understanding of commercialization in biotech or pharma, ideally across multiple value chain parts
  • Deep understanding of the US market with at least 10 years of Biopharma commercialization experience
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills including executive-ready narratives.

Responsibilities

  • Serve as a trusted thought partner to the CCO, translating strategic priorities into an operating agenda
  • Maintain an integrated view of priorities, decisions, and organizational needs
  • Anticipate issues and help determine what requires CCO/CLT attention
  • Design and improve the CLT meeting cadence and follow-through processes
  • Ensure leadership focuses on the most important cross-functional topics
  • Build and manage an integrated Commercialization strategic agenda across milestones and risks
  • Establish efficient systems for managing priorities and communications.

Benefits

  • Comprehensive benefits package including retirement savings plans and health benefits
  • Eligibility for short-term and long-term incentive programs subject to terms
  • Opportunities for professional development and further training
  • Flexible location options ideally Boston-based, with the ability for East Coast-based candidates.
  • Regular travel to key argenx locations, fostering broad operational exposure.
Full Job Description

argenx is scaling a global commercialization engine to reach more patients across indications and geographies. This role creates leverage for the Chief Commercialization Officer and Commercialization Leadership Team by translating strategy into focus, decisions, execution, and scalable ways of working.

The Senior Director willoperateat the intersection of strategy, operations, communications, and organizational effectiveness. They will help the CCO prioritize the highest-value work, leadtheCommercializationleadershipteam (CLT)operatingrhythm,connect cross-functional efforts, and advancecritical commercializationd prioritieswhile preserving the empowered, entrepreneurial argenx Way.

Location:IdeallyBoston-basedbut can be flexible withEast Coast-based(with the ability to regularly travel to Boston and other key argenxlocations, inclusive of Ghent)

Key Responsibilities

Strategic partner to the CCO

  • Serve as a trusted thought partner to the CCO, translating strategic priorities into a clear operating agenda.

  • Maintain an integrated view of priorities, decisions, commitments, risks, and organizational needs.

  • Anticipate issues, surface trade-offs, and helpdeterminewhat requires CCO/CLT attention versus local decision-making.

  • Bring structure and sound judgment to ambiguous, high-stakes topics.

Lead the CLT operatingrhythm

  • Design and continuously improve the CLT cadence, agendas, pre-reads, decision forums, action tracking, and follow-through.

  • Ensure leadership time is focused on the most important cross-functional, cross-geography, and enterprise topics.

  • Partner with topic owners to frame decisions clearly, including the recommendation, inputrequired, decision owner, and desired outcome.

  • Capture decisions, actions, owners, and timing; ensure accountability through closure.

  • Strengthen alignment and collaboration across Commercialization leaders, regions, functions, and communities.

Drive strategic priorities and execution

  • Build and manage an integrated Commercialization strategic agenda across priorities, milestones, dependencies, decisions, and risks.

  • Lead or support high-priority,commercializationinitiativesfrom problem definition through implementation.

  • Connect work across Commercial, Medical Affairs & Evidence Generation, Market Access, regions/countries,asset/indicationteamsand enterprise partnerssuch asDevelopment.

  • Identifyduplication, unclear ownership, bottlenecks, and misalignmentand help resolve them quickly.

Build scalable digital and AI-enabled ways of working

  • Establish simple, effective systems for managing priorities, decisions, communications, and follow-through.

  • Apply digital tools, data, automation, and AI to improve synthesis, meeting preparation, knowledge flow, reporting, and organizational learning.

  • Champion adoption of approved digital and AI tools in ways that improve speed, clarity, quality, and productivity whilemaintainingappropriate governance.

  • Build capability in others and reduce reliance on manual, leader-dependent processes.

Qualifications

  • Advanced degree (Master or MBA) in business or health-related discipline

  • Significant experiencein strategic operations, chief of staff, business operations, program leadership, commercial strategy, or top-tier consulting supporting senior executives

  • Proventrack recordleading complex cross-functional strategic projects end-to-end, leading without authority in a complex, fast-growing, network of empoweredteamsorganization.

  • Ideallyat least 5 years of Project Management experience in a Pharmaceutical or Biotech environment.

  • Strong understanding of commercialization in biotech,pharma, rare disease, immunology, specialty care, or similarly complex healthcare environments - ideally across multiple parts of the value chain (Commercial, Medical Affairs, R&D).

  • Deep understanding of the US market withat least 10 years of Biopharma commercialization experience, preferred.

  • Strong business understandingand prioritization judgment - able to tell what truly needs CCO/CLT attention and what should be decided closer to the work.

  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to shape executive-ready narratives, pre-reads, Board materials, and leadership communications.

  • Strong facilitation and meeting-design skills, witha track recordof making seniorleaders timemore productive and driving discussions to clear actions.

  • Demonstrated ability to translate strategy into operating rhythm, leadership agendas, decision forums, and follow-through mechanisms.

  • Strong organizational navigation skills, with the ability to build trust and influence without relying on hierarchy.

  • Proven ability to manage confidential, sensitive, and high-stakes information with discretion.

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For applicants in the United States: The annual base salary hiring range for this position is $236,000.00 - $324,500.00 USD. This range reflects our good faith estimate at the time of posting. Individual compensation is determined using objective, inclusive, and job-related criteria such as relevant experience, skills, demonstrated competencies and internal equity. This means actual pay may differ from the posted range when justified by these factors. Because market conditions evolve, pay ranges are reviewed regularly and may be adjusted to remain aligned with external benchmarks.

This job is eligible to participate in our short-term and long-term incentive programs, subject to the terms and conditions of those plans and applicable policies. It also includes a comprehensive benefits package, including but not limited to retirement savings plans, health benefits and other benefits subject to the terms of the applicable plans and program guidelines.

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