Assoc. Dir, Strategic Planning

Job Description

Associate Director or Senior Specialist, Strategic Planning

 

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 a role in our Customer and Strategy chapter area which is the “Corporate Strategy chapter”. We’re looking for a talent who has 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.

Corporate Strategy Chapter: Enterprise Commercial Strategy 

• The Corporate strategy team is responsible for developing and supporting the realization of our company's mid- to 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 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 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 strategy into execution plans/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 organizational  transformation, go to market strategy, digital capability assessment, customer engagement vision building, demand planning automation, simplification & productivity improvements, etc.
  

< Mandatory required skill>

• Strategic Thinking: Visualizes the way forward, identifying opportunities that add value to the work, to the business and to our customers.
• Project Management: Develops and supports project plan based on the scope defined with key internal stakeholders, drives and supports 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, closely work with corporate strategy team
• English: Fluent English proficiency required to drive discussions within a Japan-market context.
• Japanese: High language proficiency in Japanese is required.
  

• 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

 

■等級（Grade）は面接評価に基づいて協議を行い決定致します/ The pathway level will be determined based on discussions conducted in accordance with the interview evaluation

Required Skills:

Acquisitions Divestitures, Acquisitions Divestitures, Biopharmaceutical Industry, Business Strategies, Customer Engagement, Data Analysis, Demand Planning, Developing Proposals, Employee Performance Evaluations, Environmental Scanning, Feasibility Studies, Japanese Business, Language Assessments, Management Plans, Market Research, Market Strategy, Operations Analysis, Organizational Analysis, People Leadership, Pharmaceutical Sales Marketing, Pricing Analysis, Progress Monitoring, Project Management, Sales Force Excellence (SFE), Strategic Alliances {+ 2 more}

Preferred Skills:

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Regular

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Hybrid

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Job Posting End Date:

12/31/2026

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