Director - Commercial - Strategy & Operations - Pharma

Summary:

Strategy and operations director role provides leadership, management, and vision necessary to facilitate transformation and execution across Commercial Services supporting Accelerating Reach and Scale (ARS) as a part of the Global Customer Office and supporting launches for LUSA, adhering to the U.S. Playbook to prioritize and simplify work. This will include supporting the leader with effective decision-making, project management, and execution of strategic initiatives across all capabilities of commercial services at the Company. The individual is also responsible for streamlining high-importance projects and conducting leadership-level internal and external initiatives that have significant impact on the function's business objectives.

Responsibilities:

Strategic Leadership

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

- Build and own metrics and accountability platform, evaluating progress regularly with the leadership team to achieve their deliverables 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 through Commercial team

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

Operational Management

- Deeply integrated within Commercial teams and assessed 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 the 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 by assisting in identifying expertise needed and hiring of key personnel: Incorporating skills/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

Education & Experience :

Minimum Qualification Requirements:

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