Senior Manager or Director, Marketing Excellence

Full time

Pharmaceuticals

¥ 18,000,000 negotiable

Tokyo

Newly created Director level position with well-known global pharma company. Position is in charge of building launch excellence capabilities.

Senior Manager or Director, Marketing Excellence
Summary of Job Description:

• Provide direction to the customer excellence team and brand teams. Lead and implement
• initiatives related to execution excellence including brand excellence and launch excellence.
• Responsible for leading the creation of frameworks and standards for execution models in Japan.
• Exercise the pivotal coordination role of this position to provide a platform for a holistic approach that ensures that the customer is at the heart of everything we do.
• Pursue excellence through innovation in our processes and in the capability development of our
• organization, thereby driving behavioral and cultural change to work effectively and efficiently within a multi-stakeholder environment.
• Champion cross-functional work at all levels in the commercial
• organization and drive continuous innovation within and across the work streams of the brand and infield teams.

Major Responsibilities:
Brand Planning & Execution

• Adapt and integrate the Global Marketing and Commercial Operation (GMCO) strategic choice
• model into the brand planning process in Japan affiliate
• Lead and manage the integrated brand planning process for all brand teams
• Provide brand planning training to all brand team members in conjunction with brand planning
• process
• Assist Brand Teams to implement continuous refinement of the Patient Journeys in all brand
• plans
• Support brand teams for launch readiness in conjunction with Launch Excellence framework
• Capability building
• Lead the organizational change effort to develop the capabilities-*in order to maximize performance
• Identify and aggressively pursue opportunities to increase the effectiveness and/or efficiency to enable agile decision making
• Proactively adopt new data source and analysis methodologies that can add value to the organization

Qualifications:

• Extensive knowledge and expertise in marketing, with a focus on pharmaceutical marketing
• Skilled at negotiating and influencing business partners and senior level leaders
• Strong achievement orientation and innovation mindset
• Significant experience building and leading cross-functional teams in development of relevant and actionable strategies
• Experience in a global / multinational operating environment with complex stakeholder interests