Commercial Strategy & Operations Role - Pharma

Commercial Strategy & Operations Role

Strategic Leadership:

- Spearhead and lead development, communication and implementation of transformation and strategic planning to deliver on business goal and objectives.

- Build and own metrics and accountability platform, evaluating progress regularly with leadership team to achieve their deliverable and win for the organization.

- Prepare and drive quarterly business reviews for reviewing key performance indicators of the function

- Review Internal and External Communications: drafting company newsletters, reports, pitch decks, speeches or presentations that support awareness and connectivity

- Align the Commercial Services culture strategy and objectives to the framework, including wellbeing, engagement, recognition, diversity and inclusion, and employee experience.

Operational Management:

- Deeply integrated within Commercial teams and assess issues that serve as barriers to a team or organization operating at maximum effectiveness.

- Drive operational excellence by taking on critical initiatives related to driving business priorities and accountability, and developing a strong leadership team: Project management - Overseeing large cross-functional organization-wide projects or initiatives; bring together multiple stakeholders and help drive decisions.

- Meeting preparation- Managing the meeting cadence for leadership team, ensuring materials are sent in advance, time is well spent, objectives and follow-up are achieved; planning and leading functional retreats and other special events.

- Drive the Commercial People agenda through assist in identifying expertise needed and hiring of key personnel: Incorporating skill/experiences need in job descriptions

Cross-functional Relationship Building:

- Build connections with commercial leadership team and others across the organization to influence outcomes, enable team success and foster long-term partnerships that are critical to organizational success.

- Promote shared consciousness and information flow: Acting as a key enabler to ensure the right stakeholders included at the right time and equipped with the right information for decision making

Lead/Influence/Partner:

- Exemplify Team behaviors: Include, Innovate, Accelerate, Deliver in internal and external interactions

- Model the innovation and leadership behaviors and operational excellence attributes as defined for Global Commercial Services

- Participate in forums that share information across Commercial services components and other teams and business partners

- Constructively challenge teams to reach the best solutions to opportunities and issues

- Create and lead in an environment that encourages open discussions on ideas and issues to achieve a robust outcome on business decisions

- Serve as a mentor for team members within and outside commercial services as needed

- Promote a culture that fosters innovation and seeks to continually improve commercial excellence and operational excellence

Minimum Qualification Requirements:

- Post graduate degree (MBA/MSc/MPharm) or adequate professional experience to meet above deliverables

- Min 10 years of experience in the pharmaceutical industry with experience in commercial

- Strong business acumen with demonstrated success in business transformation

- Strong understanding of affiliate business environment

- Demonstrated leadership skills and effectiveness in the areas of influence, team leadership, articulating and taking a position, negotiation, and conflict resolution

- Effective team building capabilities

Other Information/Additional Preferences:

- Six Sigma experience

- Project management experience

- Knowledge of pharma commercial capabilities