General Management RRD Australia/New Zealand

General Manager, Australia & New Zealand - Recordati Rare Diseases

Overall Purpose

Lead and grow the Australia & New Zealand rare disease business, delivering sustainable commercial performance while expanding patient access to innovative therapies. The General Manager is accountable for P&L, strategy execution, market access, government affairs, compliance, culture, talent development, and external stakeholder engagement across ANZ.  

Key Responsibilities

1. Strategic Leadership

• Define and execute the ANZ growth strategy and long-range plan.
• Drive portfolio prioritisation, lifecycle management, and launch preparedness.
• Build organizational capabilities required for future growth.
• Translate regional and global priorities into an executable local strategy.  

2. Financial & Business Management

• Full ownership of ANZ P&L.
• Deliver revenue, EBITDA objectives. Ensure cash flow sustainability.
• Lead annual budget, forecast and long-range planning cycles.
• Build investment cases for new launches to accelerate growth. Prioritise investments and resources to maximize patient impact and business outcomes.  

3. Market Access & Government Affairs

• Personally lead high-priority reimbursement and funding initiatives (PBAC, MSAC).
• Manage relationships with Federal and State governments, Department of Health, PBAC, MSAC and policymakers.
• Shape the rare disease policy environment and advocate for improved patient access to care and treatments.

4. Leadership of Cross-Functional Team

• Lead a lean executive team spanning Commercial, Medical Affairs, Regulatory Affairs, PV/QA, Finance, Supply Chain.
• Coach and develop functional leaders.
• Build a high-performance culture focused on integrity, accountability, collaboration and innovation.  

5. External Stakeholder Leadership

• Represent Recordati Rare Diseases with:
  • Key opinion leaders
  • Patient organisations
  • Medicines Australia
  • Government agencies
  • Academic institutions
  • Wholesalers and distributor
• Build trusted partnerships to improve outcomes for patients with rare diseases.  

6. Compliance & Corporate Governance

• Ensure compliance with Medicines Australia Code, TGA requirements, pharmacovigilance, quality systems and corporate governance requirements. Ensure adherence to all mandated PBAC/MSAC data collection requirements.
• Act as company director and legal representative where required.  

7. Organizational Development

• Continue the transformation of the ANZ affiliate.
• Build organizational capability, talent pipelines and succession plans.
• Foster a patient-centric and innovation-focused culture.  

Experience

Essential

• 15+ years pharmaceutical industry experience.
• 5+ years senior leadership experience.
• Previous responsibility for significant P&L.
• Experience working across Commercial, Market Access, Medical or Strategy functions.
• Government affairs exposure.
• Demonstrated success leading cross-functional teams.  
• Hands on leadership, being willing to help when needed.
• Launch and business development experience.  
• Strong Australian reimbursement knowledge (PBS, PBAC, MSAC).

Highly Desirable

• Rare disease experience.
• Global functional experience (Marketing, Market Access or Medical)
• Specialty care, oncology, haematology and/or endocrinology experience.
• Experience leading organizational transformation and culture change.

Leadership Competencies

Strategic

• Able to develop long-term vision and translate it into execution.

Externally Focused

• Strong stakeholder engagement skills.
• Comfortable engaging with government, industry body, KOLs and patient groups.

Collaborative

• Builds alignment across functions and geographies.

Agile

• Thrives in a lean organization with limited layers and broad accountability.

Growth-Oriented

• Combines commercial discipline with patient impact.

Talent Developer

• Strong coach who develops future leaders.

Change Leader

• Able to build culture and drive transformation.