Portfolio Manager
CR/079592
Posted: 21/10/2025
- Competitive
- England, East Anglia, Essex
- Contract
Orion Group Life Sciences are currently recruiting a Portfolio Manager on behalf of our Multinational Biopharmaceutical Client on an initial 8-Month contract with potential to extend.
Location: Harlow office (Essex) or Ridings Point site (Castleford - West Yorkshire). We have a hybrid approach to home-working!
25 Days Annual Leave (pro rata), plus Bank holidays
Please note: This role is not a People manager role. You will be an individual contributor to the team.
How You’ll Spend Your Day:
What We're Looking For:
Are you...
Our role in supporting diversity and inclusion
As an international workforce business, we are committed to sourcing personnel that reflects the diversity and values of our client base but also that of Orion Group. We welcome the wide range of experiences and viewpoints that potential workers bring to our business and our clients, including those based on nationality, gender, culture, educational and professional backgrounds, race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, disability, and age differences, job classification and religion. In our inclusive workplace, regardless of your employment status as staff or contract, everyone is assured the right of equitable, fair and respectful treatment.
Location: Harlow office (Essex) or Ridings Point site (Castleford - West Yorkshire). We have a hybrid approach to home-working!
25 Days Annual Leave (pro rata), plus Bank holidays
Please note: This role is not a People manager role. You will be an individual contributor to the team.
How You’ll Spend Your Day:
- Managing a Portfolio of Generic Pharmaceutical Products (200 SKUs across various therapy areas) and the Product Lifecycle (Launch to Discontinuation)
- You will manage Projects as set by line manager
- Identify the value adding line extensions / new product identification
- Work collaboratively with Commercial, Pricing and Demand Teams to make Product related decisions
- Analyse data to review performance profile of the Portfolio and recommendations / decision making based on outputs
- Contribute & develop Monthly Reporting
What We're Looking For:
- A Degree (or equivalent)
- ABPI (preferable, not essential)
- Experience from within an FMCG / Pharmaceutical setting
- Proven track record of Portfolio Lifecycle Management (Launch to Discontinuation)
- Strong understanding of Commercial Finance
- Performance and variance reporting capabilities
- Project Management
- Commodity Trading and NHS structure / UK Pharmaceutical Market knowledge
- Advanced Microsoft Excel / PowerPoint capabilities
Are you...
- A good communicator
- Able to work effectively as part of a Team
- Highly motivated, passionate and self-driven
- Quick and agile thinker
Our role in supporting diversity and inclusion
As an international workforce business, we are committed to sourcing personnel that reflects the diversity and values of our client base but also that of Orion Group. We welcome the wide range of experiences and viewpoints that potential workers bring to our business and our clients, including those based on nationality, gender, culture, educational and professional backgrounds, race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, disability, and age differences, job classification and religion. In our inclusive workplace, regardless of your employment status as staff or contract, everyone is assured the right of equitable, fair and respectful treatment.
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