The Grünenthal Group announced that Mark Fladrich has taken office as new Chief Commercial Officer (CCO). Grünenthal is a pharmaceutical company specialized in pain, gout and inflammation headquartered in Aachen, Germany. In his last appointment Mark Fladrich served as Area Vice President, Southern and Western Europe for AstraZeneca.
Fladrich has almost 30 years of experience in the pharmaceutical industry. This includes large country management roles with AstraZeneca in Germany and Australia/New Zealand with over $1 billion of sales revenue in each country under his responsibility. He was also globally responsible for all phase III products and promoted brands and for providing commercial input into R&D for all stages of clinical development.
At Grünenthal, he assumes responsibility for the entire Global Commercial Organization. His aspiration is to bring the Global Commercial functions closer to the markets and to foster the interface between Commercial and R&D. A close collaboration will strengthen customer- and market-driven development. Another objective will be the focus on the increasingly challenging payor- and data-driven environment by further building Grünenthal's strategic marketing, market insights and medical affair capabilities.
"I am excited to join Grünenthal. The company has a great track record of bringing innovative medicines to the market," Fladrich said. "The key to the company´s future success will be excellently prepared and executed launches - ensuring that marketing, sales, market access and medical strategies are well coordinated with the overarching aim to bring our medicines to as many patients who need them as we can".