Senior Director Strategic Planning

Kyowa Kirin is a fastgrowing global specialty pharmaceutical company that applies stateoftheart biotechnologies to discover and deliver novel medicines in four disease areas: bone and mineral; intractable hematologic; hematology oncology; and rare disease. A Japanbased company our goal is to make people smile by delivering breakthroughs where no adequate treatments currently exist working from drug discovery to product development and commercialization. In North America we are headquartered in Princeton NJ with offices in California Massachusetts and Ontario.

Summary of Job:

The Senior Director Strategic Planning oversees the annual crossfunctional business planning activities and crossfunction Business Development (BD) integration activities at Kyowa Kirin North America. The incumbent will partner with the brand teams and finance to support ongoing short and longterm business planning crossfunction alliance (BD) integration and gotomarket readiness for commercial launches. The incumbent supports or supports (with commercial operations brands finance) the Annual Business Planning Process (LRP Brand & Financial Planning First Look and MidRange Plan as well as BD (alliance) integration activities for the U.S.

Essential Functions:

• Develop and implement the business planning strategy building the role as a strategic partner to the NA organization to support the achievement of business objectives.
• Working with brand teams to support launch readiness.
• Work with the marketing team on coordinating the brand planning process. Facilitate reviews with leadership highlight areas of concern/opportunity and develop action plans accordingly.
• Continual monitoring of resource allocation across teams relative to BD activity and evolution of the North America Healthcare landscape
• Proactively create/change processes structure programs and planning systems to ensure NA region success and fiscal accountability across all functions and activities.
• Work with crossfunctional partners (regulatory legal finance compliance and HR) to update policies governing KKNA alliance integration as required. Lead the implementation of any new processes or documentation associated with updates.
• Build strong partnerships and drive role clarity with other stakeholders across KKNA functions

Job Requirements:

Education

Bachelors Degree required. MBA or equivalent advanced degree preferred.

Experience

At least 10 years experience leading crossfunction teams with diverse experience marketing leadership sales leadership or operations leadership roles within the pharma/biotech market. Rare Disease and Oncology experience preferred but not required. Knowledge of best practices business processes and commercial systems across the pharmaceutical industry. Insightful understanding of regulatory legal and requirements for pharmaceutical marketing. Proven track record of building leading and driving business process transformation in marketing operations or commercial operations. Demonstrated ability to seek diverse input from multiple stakeholders to make highly complex decisions and drive innovative solutions.

Technical Skills

Proficient in MS Office Suite and Veeva/Salesforce CRM Systems.

NonTechnical Skills

Demonstrated ability to organize prioritize meet deadlines make decisions and change course of action quickly. Strong interpersonal and communication skills. Strong work ethic is required. Detail oriented and excellent follow through. Has the ability to flex and deal with ambiguity in a dynamic fastpaced high growth environment. Has a passion for personal learning and development to be able to grow with the company. Cultural sensitivity and ability to develop consensus within a multinational organization

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