Associate Director

Job Description : Associate Director, Business Operations (Asia, Middle East, Africa, Latin America) This is a strategic and facilitative role that requires a combination of focus and flexibility, as well as a willingness to play an active role. As the Chief Commercial Officer's (CCO's) ‘trusted counsel’ and thought partner, the role requires a highly resourceful individual with strong emotional intelligence, self-motivation, learning agility and excellent analytical skills. The role will oversee the office of the CCO LAM (Latin America, Asia, Middle East and Africa) and provide support and counsel to the CCO LAM across their full range of responsibilities, playing a lead role in the Commercial LAM organisation. This role will assist the workload of the role of CCO LAM, assuring that focus remains on all priorities. The successful candidate must have prior experience in a commercial leadership role within the Pharmaceutical industry. This would suit someone with around 10-15 years experience and is interested in working closely with and learning from our CCO. KEY RESPONSIBILITIES & EXPECTATIONS · Acts as an advisor, builds and maintains relationships across the wider stakeholder community including with the CEO and Executive Committee. · Drive, coordinate and ensure alignment and delivery of various cross functional projects in support of the CCO related to organizational leadership/oversight and strategic initiatives. · Filters, prioritizes, analyses and validates complex and dynamic information from a diverse range of external and internal sources to respond to key business challenges. · Serve as the CCO LAM’s proxy and provide timely advice and support through effective collaboration with colleagues across the region and with key internal and external stakeholders. · Works across the matrix with the LAM Leadership Team and internal stakeholders like Marketing, HR and Finance on headcount, budget matters, staffing, talent development, organizational design. · Be the voice of the CCO LAM to challenge the status quo and current approach in projects, processes, policies and systems, engaging with senior stakeholders to drive strategic initiatives for the company · Devise, develop and drive communication strategy (incl. required processes and tools) in close collaboration with HR and Communications. · Support CCO with day-to-day running of the region, and on communications, e.g. key presentations, town hall meetings, etc, · Execute ad hoc analyses quickly and thoroughly, delivering executive-level summaries as needed. Must be able to rapidly create concise communications (memos, presentations, analysis) across a range of business and operations topics. · Establish clearly defined goals and KPIs for the Region and ensure tracking / follow-up in a timely manner. KEY SKILLS & EXPERIENCE · Strong project management capabilities. · 10-15 years experience in Pharmaceutical Industry in Commercial (Sales/Marketing) roles. · Business acumen, critical thinking, analytic skills. · Successful track record of building commercial capability and proven hands-on experience as operational commercial leader in a complex environment. · Curiosity, global mindset, solutions-orientated mindset, and can-do attitude. · Good networker, collaborator and partnership builder. · Excellent interpersonal and communication skills and able to relate to audiences at all levels. · Fluent in English

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