Country Manager, Australia
Location: Australia
About the Role
The Country Manager, Australia is responsible for establishing and leading Pharming's Australian affiliate and ensuring the successful launch and sustainable growth of the company's rare disease portfolio.
As the senior leader for Australia, you will be accountable for affiliate strategy, commercial execution, financial performance, compliance, and operational excellence. You will build and lead a high-performing cross-functional team while representing Pharming with healthcare professionals, patient organizations, payers, government stakeholders, and industry partners.
This role requires a highly customer-focused and entrepreneurial leader who can balance strategic thinking with hands-on execution to deliver meaningful outcomes for patients.
Key Responsibilities
Leadership & General Management
- Establish and lead Pharming's Australian affiliate.
- Build, coach, and develop a high-performing cross-functional team.
- Foster a culture of collaboration, accountability, compliance, and patient focus.
- Ensure organizational readiness for launch and future growth.
- Lead talent development, performance management, and succession planning.
Launch & Cross-Functional Leadership
- Drive launch readiness and execution across Commercial, Medical Affairs, Market Access, Patient Services, Regulatory Affairs, and Operations.
- Ensure alignment with regional and global objectives.
- Monitor launch progress through KPIs and implement corrective actions as needed.
Commercial Leadership
- Develop and execute the Australian commercial strategy.
- Drive patient identification, treatment access, and business growth.
- Build strong relationships with healthcare professionals, centers of excellence, and key opinion leaders.
- Represent Pharming at scientific meetings, congresses, and industry events.
Market Access & Stakeholder Engagement
- Build partnerships with payers, government agencies, healthcare decision-makers, and industry associations.
- Collaborate with Medical Affairs and Market Access teams to optimize patient access.
- Support disease awareness initiatives and stakeholder engagement activities.
Financial & Compliance Management
- Oversee business planning, budgeting, forecasting, and financial performance.
- Ensure compliance with local regulations, industry codes, and company policies.
- Maintain effective governance, risk management, and operational processes.
Your profile:
Qualifications & Experience
Education
- Bachelor's degree in Life Sciences, Pharmacy, Business Administration, or a related field.
- MBA or advanced degree preferred.
Experience
- 10+ years of leadership experience in pharmaceuticals, biotechnology, or rare diseases.
- Proven success launching and commercializing specialty or rare disease products.
- Experience leading an affiliate, business unit, or significant commercial function.
- Strong understanding of the Australian healthcare and reimbursement landscape.
- Demonstrated success building and leading high-performing teams.
- Experience managing financial performance, planning, and compliance.
Skills & Competencies
- Strong strategic and commercial acumen.
- Exceptional leadership and people development skills.
- Strong stakeholder management and influencing capabilities.
- Ability to thrive in a matrix organization.
- Entrepreneurial mindset with a hands-on approach.
- Resilient, agile, and patient-focused.
Who we are
We’re built on a simple belief: people living with rare diseases deserve more.
Pharming is a global biotechnology company taking on some of the toughest rare disease challenges. We develop and commercialize innovative therapies for rare and ultra-rare immunological and genetic diseases with significant unmet need, where our scientific and commercial expertise, long-term commitment, and real partnership can help advance care.
We put patients at the heart of our work. Their insights, along with those of caregivers, clinicians, scientists, and partners, shape our strategy, guide our decisions, and help turn science into meaningful progress. We keep it simple, act with urgency, and get it done — expanding access to approved therapies, advancing high-value pipeline programs, and building a leading global rare disease company.
Our vision is simple: a world where people living with rare diseases don’t wait for progress or care. Together with the communities who inspire us, we’re opening new possibilities — proving that breakthroughs aren’t just discovered. They’re created together.
Ready to make a difference? Join us.
What it’s like to work here
At Pharming, every role helps move rare disease therapies closer to the people who need them. We make it happen together, across teams, disciplines, and borders, because breakthroughs don’t happen in silos. Rare diseases are complex, and meaningful progress takes people who ask better questions, challenge each other, and turn insight into action. Here, you won’t work on the sidelines. Pharming is a place for builders, problem-solvers, and bold thinkers who move with urgency, take ownership, and stay focused on what matters most: improving the lives of people living with rare diseases. Advancing rare disease care isn’t the work of one team or one leader. It’s all of us, building what’s next together.
