Sun Pharma - Hawthorne, CA
posted 5 months ago
About the position
The Product Development Associate role is a pivotal position within the OTC Business unit, responsible for facilitating a variety of critical activities that drive innovation and support over 40 Abbreviated New Drug Applications (ANDAs). This role is essential in meeting customer and market requirements, ensuring that all development tasks are completed efficiently and effectively. The associate will work closely with multiple stakeholders, both internally and externally, to keep projects on track and moving forward. In this role, the associate will support the process and documentation of portfolio management, maintaining strong relationships with Contract Manufacturing Organizations (CMOs) both before and after product launches. They will facilitate the procurement of samples and ensure that all meeting requirements from suppliers are met. Additionally, the associate will be responsible for procuring and maintaining OTC product portfolio documents and assets, which are crucial for the development and pre-commercialization of new products. This includes coordinating, providing, and tracking all internal and external data necessary for successful product launches. The associate will also provide analytic support, which includes reporting, product performance analysis, modeling, and forecast analysis. They will coordinate a wide range of business development activities and initiatives, focusing on engagement, assessment, and relationship management. Ensuring new product readiness is a key responsibility, as is liaising with Quality, Drug Safety, Supply Chain, and Legal teams to implement best practices, improve processes, resolve customer issues, and mitigate liabilities. Collaboration with other members of the OTC team is essential to ensure that customer requests and requirements are met, along with any additional responsibilities that may arise.
Responsibilities
- Support process and documentation of portfolio management
- Maintain relationships with CMOs pre-and post-product launch
- Facilitate samples and meeting requirements from suppliers
- Procure and maintain OTC product portfolio documents and assets
- Support development and pre-commercialization of new products by coordinating, providing and tracking all internal and external data
- Provide analytic support including reporting, product performance analysis, modeling and forecast analysis
- Coordinate a broad range of business development activities and initiatives, including engagement, assessment and relationship management
- Ensure new product readiness
- Liaise with Quality, Drug Safety, Supply Chain and Legal teams to ensure best practices, process improvement, customer issue resolution and mitigation of liabilities
- Collaborate with other members of the OTC team to ensure customer requests and requirements are met
- Perform additional responsibilities as needed
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Business, Supply Chain, Project Management or similar field
- Minimum 2 years of relevant experience
- Prior experience in packaging, manufacturing and/or pharmaceuticals preferred
- Knowledge of Microsoft Office and business applications
- Time management, organization, adaptability and communication skills required
- Prior on-site experience in manufacturing plant preferred but not required
