Associate Director, Franchise Lead – Respiratory Allergy Commercial

We are looking for an Associate Director, Franchise Lead to join our Respiratory Allergy Therapy Area Commercial team. Reporting to the Head of Therapy Area Commercial, you will play a key role in driving performance and enabling markets across the global franchise.

The position
In this role, you will operate with a high degree of independence, translating Therapy Area strategy into clear priorities and tangible impact across markets. You will act as a strategic commercial partner while ensuring executional excellence, working closely with affiliates and cross-functional stakeholders to drive alignment, focus, and performance. 

As an Associate Director, Franchise Lead, you will operate across products and indications, segments and geographies, moving beyond traditional brand management to enable markets, unlock growth, and strengthen our position across the Respiratory Allergy franchise.

You will in this position be responsible for:

• Franchise Strategy: Evolve the global franchise strategy and positioning, translating TA priorities into clear strategic choices.
• Performance & Growth: Drive performance by prioritizing key opportunities and optimization across markets.
• Market Shaping: Enable scalable initiatives to expand the franchise categories and unlock demand.
• Affiliate Enablement: Act as strategic partner to markets, providing direction and frameworks to accelerate performance.
• Cross-Functional Leadership: Represent the commercial TA voice and ensure alignment across functions.
• Business Development: Contribute to potential business cases and evaluations.
• TA Governance: Support Therapy Area planning and prioritization.

Your primary tasks will be to:

• Strategy planning: Develop franchise plans, strategic narratives, and decision materials.
• Analyse market performance to identify opportunities and actions.
• Lead market engagement and strategic alignment forums.
• Build frameworks and tools to support local planning.
• Drive cross-market initiatives and ensure follow-through.
• Facilitate cross-functional alignment and decision-making.
• Support business cases and opportunity assessments.

Your profile
We expect that you have:

• Preferably a master’s degree in business, marketing, Life Sciences, or a related field (MBA or equivalent is an advantage).
• Extensive experience in global pharmaceutical or biotech commercial roles, operating at franchise, therapy area, or cross-brand level.
• Proven track record in translating strategy into performance and driving growth across multiple markets.
• Strong experience working in complex, cross-functional environments (Medical, Market Access, Regulatory, Supply).
• Demonstrated experience partnering with affiliates and enabling global–local alignment and performance acceleration.
• Experience contributing to portfolio strategy, business development, or in-licensing evaluations is an advantage.

We are looking for someone who:

• Has a strong growth mindset and curiosity to learn.
• Is outcome-oriented and focused on impact.
• Maintains a clear ‘patient-first’ perspective.
• Is proactive and willing to challenge the status quo.
• Thrives in collaborative, cross-functional environments.
• Shows ownership and accountability.

Needed competences for being successful in this role:

• Strategic leadership: Translate TA strategy into clear priorities and direction.
• Commercial acumen: Strong understanding of value creation and positioning.
• Planning leadership: Experience leading brand planning and commercial processes end-to-end.
• Market shaping: Ability to identify scalable growth opportunities.
• Cross-functional influence: Strong stakeholder leadership and alignment skills.
• Global–local enablement: Translate global direction into actionable guidance for markets.
• Decision-making: Provide clarity and structure in complex environments.
• Execution oversight: Ensure follow-through and focus on high-impact initiatives.

Become a part of ALK
ALK is a global pharmaceutical company specialized in allergy immunotherapy. We are driven by a high level of professionalism, integrity, an openminded approach and contributing to an inspiring and fun working environment together with our colleagues. We provide an attractive working environment for individuals looking for both personal and professional development. You will be part of an engaged and informal team who values skill and knowledge creation.

Our offices in Denmark offer a green view of the DTU Science Park in Hørsholm. We believe that physical presence enforces strong teamwork and collaboration and creates success, so it is important that you enjoy coming to work at our site with a degree of flexibility to also work from home.

Do you want to learn more about our company, we encourage you to visit us at www.alk.net.

Apply
Apply by attaching your CV and a short letter of motivation, no later than 24 April 2026.  

We commit to an inclusive recruitment process and equality of opportunity for all our job applicants. Hence, we prefer that you do not add images in your application documents. We evaluate applications and call for interviews on an ongoing basis, so don't wait to apply! We reserve the right to take down the advert when we have found the right candidate.

We are looking forward to hearing from you!