Your First 90 Days in Pharma Leadership
A practical 90-day playbook for pharma and biotech professionals moving from expert to leader. Tools, worksheets, and Medical Affairs examples for your first three months in a leadership role.
Your job changed the day you became a leader. Your expertise didn’t become less valuable, but how you create value with it did.
This free 16-page playbook walks you through the first 90 days of a leadership transition in pharma and biotech, in four phases:
Before Day 1: Are you ready, and recognized as ready?
Days 1–30: Understand the system before you change it.
Days 31–60: Align the team, clarify decision rights, and give clear feedback early.
Days 61–90: Lead through others, manage up, and make your team’s capability visible.
Inside: a Day-90 Success Contract to align with your manager, a stakeholder priority map, a Quick-Win Filter, a decision-rights framework, coaching questions, a Day-90 executive readout template, and a leadership self-assessment.
You’ll also find Medical Affairs notes on situations new leaders actually face, like inheriting a field team, handling your first Commercial request, and showing value beyond activity metrics.
Written for professionals who are newly promoted, taking over an established team, moving into leadership at a new company, leading across the matrix without direct reports, or preparing for their next leadership role.
Written by Christine Ong, PharmD, founder of Talmedica.