Vaccine Strategic Initiatives Lead

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Job Description

OBJECTIVES :

• Identify, develop deploy strategic initiatives to enable the growth and profitability of the vaccine business such as new market entries, launch sequencing and/or new customer segments or channels
• Leading key commercial projects across APAC, ICMEA, China
• Working in close collaboration with other key stakeholders in the GEM areas and LOCs on strategic projects with impact on global vaccine access
• Adherence to Takeda corporate governance and industry code of conduct; alignment with the values and vision of Takeda; ensuring all programs are compliant with Takeda business practices

ACCOUNTABILITIES :

• Identify, develop and ensure implementation of strategic initiatives that can enable growth of the business
• Understand and analyze business needs and translate into strategies and implementation plans
• Ensure alignment between evolving business needs and vaccine commercialization objective
• Identify and assess the commercial opportunities, emerging vaccination trends, new channels and segments
• Identify innovative options and/or multiple solutions and exercising foresight and judgement in highly complex problems
• Ensure effective utilization of existing business systems and support\
• Appropriately characterize business objectives and clear decision-making to be able to develop and implement complex initiatives and strategies across the organization
• Ensure successful launch sequencing and provide comprehensive assessment for potential gaps and future synergistic opportunities to launch/grow the vaccine within the areas
• Lead or participate in strategic projects that can include but not limited to : new market entries/marketing channels or segments; interaction across multiple functional organization; patient development programs in collaboration with other functional teams

EDUCATION, EXPERIENCE, SKILLS :

• Requires extensive commercial experience (7-10 years) including managerial experience in diverse roles
• MBA or Degree in Biology, Chemistry, or related science preferred
• Vaccine experience and comprehensive understanding of vaccines industry dynamics
• Ability to work with complex scientific information in conjunction with internal colleagues as well as external key opinion leaders
• Previous experience at regional / country level preferred
• The ability to lead and significantly contribute to cross-functional teams across geographies by building collaboration and alignment, motivating and empowering others to maximize milestone achievements
• Excellent presentation, analytical and communication skills (both written and oral)
• Capable of taking a position of facilitation or leadership in team or project settings. Ability to guide and coach others, especially team members towards task achievement
• Ability to create clear, compelling vision and business strategies that guide sound program development and significantly advance the financial health, growth and competitive advantage
• Understand necessary depth and detail required to drive actions and decisions and efficiently progress projects to completion
• Flexible with regard to changing and conflicting priorities, able to easily shift gears in terms of behaviour and attitude in response to ambiguity and the needs of the situation
• Intellectual rigor and flexibility/tenacity to manage design trade-offs; evidence of innovation, problem-solving and structured thinking skills
• Acts independently on self-initiated projects; leverages knowledge from others related to overall objectives, strategy, critical issues and policy matters
• Self-motivated and flexible with the ability to work effectively in a dynamic, problem-solving environment

TRAVEL REQUIREMENTS :

• Willingness to travel to various sites for meetings, site visits

Locations

Singapore, Singapore

Worker Type

Employee

Worker Sub-Type

Regular

Time Type

Full time