MSD Senior Specialist Strategy Expert 

Japan, Chiyoda 

801900108

Job Description

Formulate strategy

• 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 company’s overall status and monitor the progress by managing KPIs

Drive cross-functional initiatives

• 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.

[Competencies Required]

• 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 Strategy Expert Lead and 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
• Productive Communication: Plans and delivers ideas and information to others in a clear and impactful manner at high level of engagement.
• English: Business-level proficiency required to drive discussions within a Japan-market context
• Note: Pharmaceutical and healthcare industry knowledge is not mandatory.

[Our Ways of Working]
At our company, we will achieve our long-term strategy and near-term priorities through evolved behaviors for how we work. It is our shared responsibility to embrace and model these through Our Ways of Working in all that we do.

• Win as One Team: We act with a company-first mindset inspired by unified goals; communicate, participate and collaborate as one team; winning and losing together.
• Focus on What Matters: We simplify our work and prioritize our resources on what matters the most to create the greatest value for human and animal patients, and in turn all stakeholders.
• Act with Urgency: We work with speed, rigor, and determination to deliver our medicines and vaccines around the world.
• Experiment, Learn, & Adapt: We balance our expertise with curiosity, continuous learning, adaptability and a commitment to never give up, whether we succeed or fail.
• Embrace Diversity & Inclusion: We create fully diverse teams to deliver our best innovations and cultivate an inclusive environment where everyone is able to contribute their best ideas.
• Speak Up and Be Open-Minded: We voice our opinions, engage in healthy debate and encourage curiosity to improve ideas and decisions to achieve better outcomes

Current Contingent Workers apply

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