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MCE Mini MBA for the Pharmaceutical and Biotech Industries

Understand how the pharma industry works today and develop the key management skills you need to boost your career.

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The Key Issues

You were recruited into a specialist role in the Pharmaceutical industry e.g. quality control, chemistry, logisitics, manufacturing, R&D, regulatory affairs etc. But the next step in your career is managing a team. So you need to get knowledge and skills fast about the whole industry and how all parts of your company work as well as developing your leadership skills. This is the best way to move forward in your career.

Strategic leadership

Marketing excellence

Business finance skills

Key Competences​

Building value propositions

Change management

Market access & economics

The Right Programme for You

You are an engineer, scientist or specialist and you have a new management role in the pharmaceutical or biotech industries. This programme gives you the key skills you need to become a great manager and boost your career.
  • Business Professionals
  • New Managers
  • Managers
  • Senior Managers

Highlights

Develop your key pharma management skills in strategy, customer value, change management, marketing & finance.

Use case studies, role plays & group exercises to practice what you learn in this best-selling programme.

Get feedback from peers and MCE faculty on your progress and skills learning.

Learn, Practice and Use

  • Translate changes in the healthcare environment into competitive strategies for sustainable growth in your department, division or company
  • Understand the key pharma business areas and their role in your company's value chain
  • Get a full understanding of crucial financial and strategic issues in pharma
  • Support & implement strategic goals from top management and boost your own career
  • Align & focus your team or group on your company's customer value propositions
  • Explore new business models in Pharma and what they mean for you
  • Apply design thinking to customer-centric strategies
  • Explore competitive analysis, vision, resource allocation & priorities in your strategy
  • Learn how market access & medical affairs are part of your customer value proposition
  • Share your knowledge and challenges with your peers and MCE's highly experienced faculty

Programme Details

The MCE Mini MBA for the Pharma and Biotech Industry is a 5 day or 12 live online sessions hands-on training programme, highly interactive with exercises and role plays. The programme is ideal for managers with a specialist background who now need to manage a team and get business skills fast. The programme is facilitated by MCE Senior Associates with extensive management experience in international life sciences companies.

Five Programme Modules

  • Environment & mega trends
  • The healthcare market landscape (pharma, medical devices and diagnostics)
  • The life sciences value chain
  • Key strategies & new business models
  • Essentials of strategy: competitive analysis, vision and objective setting, resource allocation and priorization
  • Agility in a VUCA World
  • Change management
  • Leadership in time of crisis 
  • Stakeholders mapping and value mapping
  • From R&D to market authorization to supply chain: creating value  (strategic product development and innovative distribution models)  
  • Market access & health economics: measuring value
  • Medical affairs: integrating value (Therapeutic Expertise, RWE, Upgrading Clinical decision-making)
  • Marketing: communicating value (competitive positioning and messaging, customer engagement, marketing mix: from 4 p’s to 4c’s)
  • Applying design thinking to customer-centric strategies
  • Objectives and brand vision, product positioning
  • Marketing plans driven by key issues
  • Marketing mix: from operational strategies to multichannel tactics
  • Execution discipline & alignments of customer-facing functions
  • Key metrics to track successful execution and monitor outcomes, launch excellence
  • The roles of accounting & finance: external (reporting/fiscal) and internal (business) management
  • Key accounting principles & concepts
  • Reading financial statements
  • Financial analysis & valuation (NPV, IRR)
  • The business plan: resource allocation and forecasting
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17 Jun, 14:00 – 17:00CET
18 Jun, 09:00 – 12:00CET
18 Jun, 14:00 – 17:00CET
23 Jun, 09:00 – 12:30CET
23 Jun, 14:00 – 18:00CET
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22 Oct, 09:00 – 12:00CET
22 Oct, 14:00 – 17:00CET
27 Oct, 09:00 – 12:30CET
27 Oct, 14:00 – 18:00CET
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