Team Leadership: Build, lead, and develop a diverse team with varied skillsets, ensuring they are well-trained, driving improvement and value for commercial teams.
Process Optimization: Identify and implement opportunities for standardization, automation, and process improvement in commercial operations. Work closely with process SMEs and drive cross-country/area collaboration
Service Levels: Ensure that appropriate documentation, templates, and Service Level Agreements (SLAs) are in place for all processes. Conduct monthly reviews with commercial teams to track performance of current processes and pipeline of opportunities
Performance Management: Monitor service delivery against SLAs, engage in root cause analysis when issues arise, and continuously refine performance metrics to enhance efficiency
Stakeholder Engagement: Conduct monthly reviews with relevant commercial leaders to discuss performance, process harmonization and manage future opportunities
Data & Insights: Provide new commercial analytics, reporting tools, and business intelligence solutions, ensuring data-driven decision-making for commercial leaders
Value Improvement: Foster a culture of continuous improvement, leveraging best practices and digital transformation to optimize commercial processes. Drive the VIP pipeline for Commercial Operations
Talent Development: Recruit, retain, and develop team members, ensuring a high-performance culture that supports professional growth and capability building
Key Qualifications
Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration or a related field
Over 10 years of experience in Commercial Operations, Sales Operations, Supply Chain Operations, or similar functions
Proven people leadership capability and track record of building and managing teams by fostering a diverse workplace, being a role model to drive Diversity and Inclusion
Proven ability to establish and communicate a clear vision of a newly established team to the team members as well as stakeholders
Track record of identifying improvement opportunities and implementation of the solutions with the team, challenging status quo for operational excellence, by aligning with stakeholders under complexity
Proven skills of stakeholder management in matrix organization, together with communication skills to deliver presentation at top management level and to influence and collaborate with others in a well-grounded manner
Proven ability to work with a ‘sense of urgency’ to meet critical deadlines
Strong project management skills including change management, prioritization and time management
Ability to work across different cultures
Ability to work in a fast-paced, demanding environment and multi-task with flexible and agile mindset
Excellent verbal and written communication skills in English. Additional APAC languages is desirable (Mandarin, Japanese, other)