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Associate Director Strategy (Corporate Strategy/Commercial Strategy & Operation)
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 Corporate strategy chapter and the Commercial strategy and operation chapter. Were looking for talents who have strong leadership skills provided 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.) Corporate Strategy Chapter: Enterprise Commercial Strategy
The Corporate strategy team is responsible for developing and supporting the realization of our companys 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 companys 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.
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- English: Fluent English proficiency required to drive discussions within a Japan-market context
- Japanese: High language proficiency in Japanese is required.
Role 2. ) Commercial Strategy and Operation Chapter: Oncology or Portfolio area
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/Sales operational excellence and providing the capability to take on complex operations including negotiations with internal global and external partners.
- Managing the commercial forecasting process including strategy development profit planning and senior leaders alignment in both local and global stakeholders.
- Crafting the short to long-term commercial excellence model 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.
- Leading/supporting high business impact ad-hoc projects including life cycle management new launch strategy development and other business issues
- 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
Grade/ The pathway level will be determined based on discussions conducted in accordance with the interview evaluation.
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Business Strategies Commercial Excellence Commercial Strategies Corporate Strategy Development Cross-Functional Leadership Customer Engagement Operational Excellence Project Management Strategic Planning Strategic ThinkingPreferred Skills:
Job Posting End Date:
12/31/2025*A job posting is effective until 11:59:59PM on the day BEFOREthe listed job posting end date. Please ensure you apply to a job posting no later than the day BEFORE the job posting end date.
Employment Type
Full-Time
