Canada County Director

Canada Country Director The Country Director is the senior leader and business owner for Bavarian Nordic in Canada, reporting directly to the VP, Commercial North America. The Country Director has overall accountability for the Canadian affiliate's strategy, P&L, business performance, and commercial team. This leader is responsible for translating Bavarian Nordic's global and regional strategy into a differentiated Canadian business strategy that delivers sustainable growth, strong financial performance, and operational excellence. The Country Director serves as the primary advocate for the Canadian business within Bavarian Nordic and as the senior representative of the company with key external stakeholders across the Canadian healthcare ecosystem. The role requires a strategic, commercially minded, and externally focused leader who can balance near-term business performance with long-term market development, build strong cross-functional teams, and effectively influence within a global matrix organization. Key responsibilities include leading the Canadian affiliate with overall accountability for business strategy, performance, organizational effectiveness, and delivery of financial commitments; developing and executing the Canadian business strategy, translating regional and global priorities into clear market-specific objectives, priorities, and execution plans; owning the Canadian P&L, including revenue and profitability, forecasting, budgeting, resource allocation, business planning, performance management, and risk mitigation; driving sustainable portfolio growth through commercial strategy, customer engagement, market development, product launches, lifecycle management, portfolio optimization, and identification of new business opportunities; developing and leading strategies across Canada's public and private markets, including government procurement and tenders in the travel health space, public health programs, reimbursement, distributors, strategic customers, and other healthcare partnerships; anticipating changes in the Canadian healthcare, vaccine, policy, competitive, and regulatory environment and translating market insights into strategic choices and actions; identifying and prioritizing the highest-value growth opportunities for the Canadian business, ensuring resources and investments are aligned to areas of greatest strategic and financial impact; serving as the senior external representative for Bavarian Nordic in Canada, building trusted relationships with government, public health authorities, healthcare organizations, customers, industry partners, and other key stakeholders; representing the Canadian affiliate effectively with regional and global leadership, ensuring Canadian market needs and opportunities are understood and appropriately reflected in broader business decisions; leading, coaching, and developing the Canadian commercial team, creating a culture of accountability, collaboration, inclusion, high performance, and continuous development; building the organizational capabilities required to support the evolution and growth of the Canadian affiliate, including talent, structure, capabilities, and resource requirements; providing strong cross-functional and matrix leadership across Medical, Regulatory, Market Access, Finance, Legal/Compliance, Supply, HR, and other functions, creating alignment around priorities, decision rights, and execution; establishing clear business priorities and ensuring disciplined execution, making timely trade-offs when resources, market opportunities, or organizational priorities compete; fostering strong collaboration across the North American and global organization and actively sharing successful practices and market insights; modeling Bavarian Nordic's values, culture, and leadership expectations while creating an environment in which employees are empowered to deliver results; ensuring that adverse events and product complaints are identified and reported in accordance with Corporate and Regulatory standard procedures, including "Your Reporting Responsibilities" (YRR) training. Qualifications include a bachelor's degree in business, life sciences, healthcare, or a related field; advanced degree preferred; 10+ years of progressive leadership experience in pharmaceuticals, biotechnology, vaccines, medical devices, or a related healthcare industry, with demonstrated experience leading a business, function, or significant commercial organization; demonstrated experience with P&L ownership and accountability for business performance, including forecasting, budgeting, resource allocation, and investment decisions; proven ability to develop and execute commercial strategies, drive growth, launch and manage products, and translate market opportunities into measurable business results; strong understanding of the Canadian healthcare and vaccine environment, including public and private markets, market access, reimbursement, government procurement/tenders, and relevant regulatory and public health dynamics; demonstrated ability to build and maintain senior-level relationships with government and public health stakeholders, healthcare organizations, customers, distributors, industry partners, and other external stakeholders; strong strategic thinking and business judgment, with the ability to identify the most important opportunities, make difficult trade-offs, and focus resources on areas with the greatest impact; exceptional cross-functional and matrix leadership skills, with the ability to influence and align stakeholders across local, regional, and global organizations; demonstrated success attracting, developing, retaining, and motivating high-performing teams and building an accountable, collaborative, and inclusive culture; entrepreneurial and pragmatic leadership style, with the ability to operate effectively in a growing affiliate and balance strategic thinking with appropriate hands-on execution; strong executive presence and communication skills, with the credibility to represent the company internally and externally at senior levels; high level of accountability, resilience, adaptability, and business judgment, with demonstrated ability to lead through ambiguity, complexity, and changing market conditions; fluency in English; French proficiency preferred. Language requirement: Fluency in English is necessary for this position because the individual will regularly communicate with Bavarian Nordic leadership and teams located elsewhere in North America and globally, as well as with English-speaking customers, partners, and other stakeholders across Canada.