MSD Corporate Strategy/Customer Strategy & Operation 

Japan, Chiyoda 

388610140

Job Description

Associate Director, Strategy (Corporate Strategy/Commercial Strategy & Operation)

• 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.

Role1.) Corporate Strategy Chapter: Enterprise Commercial Strategy

The Corporate strategy team is responsible for developing and supporting the realization of our company's 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 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

• 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.

< Mandatory required skill>

• Fluent English proficiency required to drive discussions within a Japan-market context
• Japanese : High language proficiency in Japanese is required.

Role 2. ) Commercial Strategy and Operation Chapter: Oncology or Portfolio area

The Commercial Strategy and Operation Chapter will be responsible for leading commercial strategy development based on the knowledge and skills in forecasting, alliance and launch/Sales operational excellence, and providing the capability to take on complex operations, including negotiations with internal, global, and external partners.

• Managing the commercial forecasting process, including strategy development, profit planning and senior leader’s alignment in both local and global stakeholders.
• Crafting the short to long-term commercial excellence model, which includes environment assessment, structure design with profitability analysis by collaborating cross functional colleagues
• Driving the various type of sales excellence related projects to maximize the oncology sales activities.
• Leading/supporting high business impact ad-hoc projects including life cycle management, new launch strategy development and other business issues

• 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.

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