Product Manager, Commercial

Job Description

Product Manager, Commercial (Cambridge, UK)

The Opportunity

Cycle Pharmaceuticals based in Cambridge are seeking a talented Product Manager, Commercial, to join our Product Management team. This role is pivotal in championing Cycle’s products and patient base while managing key projects through commercial launch and beyond. If you have a passion for pharmaceutical innovation and want to work in a dynamic, fast growth environment, this could be the perfect role for you.

You will play a critical role in defining product requirements, managing product changes across departments, and ensuring our sales and patient support teams are well-equipped with accurate product knowledge. You will collaborate with multiple teams, including Sales, Marketing, Commercial Operations, Regulatory Affairs, PMO, Quality, and Finance. This role requires a strategic mindset, strong project management skills, and the ability to influence cross-functional teams. The successful candidate will thrive in our fast-paced, environment and contribute to our mission of improving the lives of patients with rare diseases.

Our Company

At Cycle, we believe that Every Single Patient Matters, this is at the heart of why we work, and we’d love for you to share our vision. We know that life-changing treatments need life-improving product support to match, because when you put the two together, great things can happen.

We are a pioneering pharmaceutical company, reimagining how drugs and services can benefit patients with rare disease to make their lives easier and improve their quality of life. Cycle, as a company, works closely with patient groups and healthcare professionals to understand the unmet needs of patients and their carers. By collaborating with academic communities and using the latest cutting-edge pharmaceutical technologies, we translate innovations into medicinal products that patients and caregivers actually desire. We deliver the required medicine with the minimum impact on daily routines and, just as importantly, provide individualized support services to patients, families, carers and the healthcare professionals community.

Cycle has three core areas of pharmaceutical development and work across rare metabolic, immunological and neurological genetic conditions: improving drugs – optimizing an existing drug; repurposing drugs – creating a new indication for an existing drug; and generics – reinstating generic drugs, previously available in the market. These three areas of focus are underpinned by formulation technology – using new drug delivery technologies to improve the efficacy and effectiveness of drugs, allowing us to give patients greater freedom and choice.

Job Title: Product Manager, Commercial

Cycle Company: Cycle Pharmaceuticals Ltd

Position Summary: This is a full-time position within the Product Development department, working in our Cambridge office on a hybrid basis (minimum 3 days in the office).

Key Responsibilities

• Champion assigned products and patient communities across the business while maintaining alignment with Cycle’s product strategy.
• Develop and maintain product roadmaps, ensuring management approval and cross-functional collaboration.
• Gain deep product knowledge of disease states and patient needs.
• Lead commercial product launches and patient migrations, working with the PMO where necessary.
• Support brand management in marketing strategy development and campaign execution.
• Define training requirements for products, ensuring sales and patient support teams are well-prepared.
• Facilitate a feedback loop from Sales, providing insights to the commercial management team.
• Gather and analyse market intelligence to identify strategic opportunities.
• Work with Commercial Operations and Data teams to support strategic decision-making.
• Manage relationships with Marketing Authorisation Holder (MAH) partners on commercial product aspects.
• Ensure projects are delivered on time and within budget, escalating discrepancies as needed.
• Maintain compliance with Regulatory, Legal, and Quality requirements.

Qualifications and Skills Required

• Degree (BSc/MSc) in a scientific field or relevant industry experience.
• At least 2 years’ experience in commercial product management (pharmaceutical experience but not required).
• Strategic thinker with a passion for building products through insight and collaboration.
• Strong project management skills with exceptional attention to detail.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to build and maintain strong working relationships internally and externally.
• Negotiation and influencing skills, with the ability to challenge constructively.
• Self-starter with a proactive mindset, able to work autonomously or in a team.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with a results-oriented approach

What can we offer to you

In addition to being part of a great team and doing things that will make a real difference to patients’ lives, you will enjoy all the benefits that brings:

• Competitive salary based on experience
• A collaborative high performing work environment
• Performance based bonus
• Opportunity to join a fast growing and ambitious business
• Company pension scheme
• 100% employer paid membership for Private Health Insurance
• Life and Critical Illness Insurance
• Corporate Gym membership
• Regular team building events and an agile working environment

Applications

Cycle Pharmaceuticals embraces and equality of opportunity. We are committed to building an inclusive and diverse team representing all backgrounds, with as wide a range of perspectives as possible, and harnessing industry-leading skills. We believe that the more inclusive we are, the better our work will be. We welcome and consider applications to join our team from all qualified candidates, regardless of their characteristics. We comply with all applicable laws and regulations on non-discrimination in employment (and recruitment), as well as work authorization and employment eligibility verification requirements.