Associate Director

Job Description

Our Company is a biopharmaceutical company with a mission of discovering, developing, and delivering innovative medicines and vaccines which save and improve peoples’ lives.

We have opened two roles in our Customer and strategy chapter area which is the Commercial strategy and operation chapter and the Strategy expert chapter and looking for the talents who has a strong skills provided in below and are passionate to contribute to our mission.

• Strategic Thinking: Visualizes the way forward, identifying opportunities that add value to the work, to the business and to our customers.
• Project Management: Develops project plan based on scope defined with key internal stakeholders, drives project collaborating with members across the business, escalates issues to relevant leaders and sponsors.
• Problem Solving: Gathers and analyzes data and effectively responds to new, complex or problematic situations; creates solutions that drive value for our company and our customers, incorporating innovative approaches where relevant.
• Business & Financial Acumen: Understands and intelligently applies economic, financial and industry data to make business decisions
• Effective Communication: Plans and delivers ideas and information to others in a clear and impactful manner at high level of engagement.

Role1.) The Strategy Expert Chapter: Enterprise Commercial Strategy

The Strategy Experts team is responsible for developing and supporting the realization of our company's long-term strategy by working collaboratively with senior leadership and colleagues across the enterprise, mainly locally but also globally.

• Be a thought partner to senior management across the enterprise as an independent presence.
• Develop our long-term strategy and plan as a Japan market, which includes assessment of current environment, defining key objectives, identifying success factors, and comprehending constraints related to the organizational challenges.
• Orchestrate the realization of our long-term strategy and plan, including profitability analysis, process redesign, operational efficiencies, growth strategy, strategic planning, data collection, qualitative analysis, etc.
• Drive annual / quarterly prioritization processes by digesting long-term strategy into mid-term strategy/immediate priorities and visualize company’s overall status and monitor the progress by managing KPIs
• Support various types of transformation and initiatives within the subsidiary - commercial-related topics and otherwise - and play a lead role in driving changes.
• Examples of previously supported projects include but not limited to agile transformation, go to market strategy, digital capability assessment, customer engagement vision building, demand planning automation, workplace vaccination, etc.

[ Mandatory required skill>

• English: Fluent English proficiency required to drive discussions within a Japan-market context

Role 2. ) The commercial Strategy and Operation Chapter : Oncology Marketing

Japan Oncology business, the Commercial Strategy and Operation Chapter will be responsible for leading commercial strategy development based on the knowledge and skills in forecasting, alliance and launch operational excellence, and providing the capability to take on complex operations, including negotiations with internal, global, and external partners.

• Managing the entire Oncology commercial forecasting process, including strategy development, profit planning and senior leader’s alignment in both local and global stakeholders.
• Enhancing the alliance partnership to maximize the entire Oncology portfolio growth, covering both operational excellence and alliance marketing
• Orchestrating the launch preparation for a number of future oncology new launches with more effective and efficient operation management.
• Crafting the short to long-term Oncology commercial excellence model to be a leading Oncology company, which includes environment assessment, structure design with profitability analysis by collaborating cross functional colleagues
• Driving the various type of sales excellence related projects to maximize the oncology sales activities.

[Preferred experiences>

• Pharmaceutical and healthcare industry experience is preferred but not mandatory.
• Project management experiences in wide-scaled and/or complex project
• 5+ years of experiences in consultancy firm

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Job Posting End Date:

12/31/2024

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