Pharmaceutical Commercial Specialist (Contract) 900 in Toronto

Job Description

The Commercial Specialist Contractor provides project coordination, commercial operations, and basic data-analysis support to the Canadian Commercial organization. This role supports multiple cross-functional teams, including Commercial Marketing and Patient Support Programs, and reports to the Director, Commercial Analytics & Operations.

The successful candidate will be highly organized, detail-oriented, and comfortable managing competing priorities. They will bring strong project-management fundamentals, operational discipline, and the ability to analyze and communicate basic budget and program data.

Reporting into the Commercial Analytics & Operations Director.

Key Duties and Responsibilities:

• Responsible for supporting the Canada Commercial teams on vendor contracts in Icertis, requesting POs in Coupa and tracking/reconciling the Canadian Commercial OPEX
• Act as the liaison between the Canada Commercial team and any questions related to Contracting, Sourcing, Procurement, Invoicing and OPEX.
• Maintain budget trackers and provide forecast-to-actual insights for Canada Marketing and Patient Support Program teams; identify and elevate budget risks and opportunities to Finance.
• Provide launch support for Commercial Marketing and Patient Support Program teams by partnering with the launch lead to schedule planning meetings, coordinate agendas and slide decks, capture and distribute action items, maintain Teams folders and distribution lists, and monitor project timelines.
• Provide project management support for key internal meetings such as offsite Launch Readiness Meetings (LRM) in preparation for NOC. This includes securing a meeting venue, coordinating accommodation, flights and catering, tracking the meeting attendees and budget, overseeing the day-of logistics
• Support new vendor onboarding by coordinating completion of the Inherent Risk Questionnaire with Third-Party Risk Management through Process Unity.
• Support Patient Support Program data analysis and operations as required

Knowledge and Skills:

• Strong and effective communicator (written and verbal)
• Exceptional Project management, organizational, and project coordination skills required
• Possesses sufficient computer skills to support and maintain department software programs(eg. MS Office, Coupa, certis, Process Unity, Power BI, Excel, power point etc)
• Ability to support meetings, conventions, conferences/exhibitions and the requisite support services across multiple functions
• Comfortable in excel with ability to work with budget trackers, identify basic trends and variance, and create summaries and dashboards if required

Education and Experience:

• Bachelor's degree
• Typically requires 2 year of experience or the equivalent combination of education and experience
• 2-4 years of project coordination, commercial operations, marketing operations or business operations experience

Pay Range

$40-$50/hr CAD

Job Details

This job posting is for a temporary role with a third-party agency partner on assignment at Vertex Pharmaceuticals (“Vertex”). The individual selected for this role will be offered the role as an employee of a third- party agency partner; compensation, medical benefits, fringe benefits and other terms and conditions of employment shall be presented by the third-party agency partner upon offer. The pay rate range provided is a reasonable estimate of the anticipated compensation range for this job at the time of posting. The actual pay rate will be based on a number of factors, including skills, competencies, experience, location and/or being pursued and other job-related factors permitted by law. In addition, this role will be eligible for overtime pay, in accordance with federal and state requirements

No C2C or Third-Party Vendors

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