SUMMARY OF THE ROLE
Support function leader for China Commercial Corporate and BBU business strategy planning, project management and GM office operations.
ROLE & RESPONSIBILITIES
1. Business planning responsibilities 40%
- Support cross-functional brand teams to deliver integrated brand plans
- Encourage deep insights based on market understanding and facts
- Connect brand strategy (Brand Plan) to programs and campaigns (Brand Experience Plan) so that customer priorities get pulled through to the next level of operational planning and execution
- Enable senior management to evaluate Brand Plans through a consistent lens
- Provide teams with new and innovative analytical tools to interpret data and make more informed allocation and investment decisions
- Support Brand Teams to focus on main growth drivers and set up appropriate Brand KPIs
2. Project Management 20% to 40%
- Set up project management framework/tool for launch excellence
- Develop project management tools
- Set up cross-functional work streams
- Provide constructive feedback to improve overall launch plan
- Monitor/ drive project progress
- Regularly monitor project progress to make sure on-time achievement of milestones/ KPIs
- Facilitate XFN team meetings
- Organize overall and work-stream level cross-functional team meetings
- Make records of the agreement/ issues/ next steps proposed in the meeting
- Ensure information transparency
- Secure visibility of project progress/risks across launch teams
- Generate reports to senior management team on timely basis
- Escalate issues through proper line when necessary
- Identify risks/ support mitigation actions
- Identify potential risks and support mitigation plan
- Accelerate problem solving through proper escalation
- Capability building
- Organize best practice sharing from other brands/ companies/ markets
3. Strategic initiatives and other project responsibilities 20% to 40%
- Lead key strategic initiatives that will ultimately enable AZ China to develop and implement winning commercial strategy
REQUIREMENTS
- Bachelor's degree and above, preferably in Science, Business, Finance, Marketing or other relevant areas, MBA degree is highly preferred
- Minimum 3 years’ experience in pharmaceutical industry, preferably in brand marketing, strategic planning, business development and / or management consulting
- Experience in new product launch readiness in pharmaceutical industry is preferred
- Excellent interpersonal skills
- Excellent Project Management capabilities
- Experience and proven success in working with cross-functional teams
- Quick learning ability
- Strong business acumen and strategic thinking ability
- Strong communication and presentation skills
- Proficient in oral and written English
Date Posted
10-11月-2025
Closing Date
16-11月-2025
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