ROLE SUMMARY

Reporting to Business Process Effectiveness and Transformation Lead, this role aims to deliver business value by creating a sustainable framework and providing end-to-end executional support for cross-functional projects (within SBDCC team and across Upjohn LT areas) and commercial business improvement initiatives (BD, forecasting, Marketing, Business Analytics, etc.).

Typical projects include leading business transformation, building new capabilities, increasing business efficiency efforts or leading program management efforts for global projects. This person will need to develop strong relationships with business leaders across regions and work across leadership to prioritize projects to maximize impact.

This person will need to be highly proactive, work collaboratively with other groups, have strong attention to detail along with written, verbal and listening skills, presentation skills, teaming, facilitation and relationship building skills with a demonstrated understanding of the business.

This person will also need to manage the project management methodology/process, drive projects to ensure they are completed on time, within budget and with expected value delivered in line with Upjohn’s strategies.

ROLE RESPONSIBILITIES

• Use business knowledge, processes skills, change management and continuous improvement methodologies, measurements & tools to analyze issues, develop and execute on strategic, cross-functional projects at global level
• Cultivate and maintain relationships across Upjohn LT, in order to prioritize and drive business critical projects that materially influence the P&L or significantly reduce risks
• Accountable for designing and executing proper planning, including creation of the project work breakdown structures, identification of critical path and contingency planning, using appropriate project management software and tools
• Provide subject matter expertise and drive the development and implementation of a schedule, budget, project scope, risk identification, resource plan, insight management, launch readiness and execution as required
• Determine and communicate the resource prioritization process using appropriate criteria (e.g., dependencies, resource capacity and capability, technology) in order to sequence project components
• Establish robust processes for the evaluation, approval and monitoring of cross-functional projects/initiatives with spend greater than a certain threshold
• Collaborate with other colleagues and teams within the SBDCC to identify opportunities across commercial categories for alignment or best-practice sharing
• Provide day-to-day oversight to project teams of colleagues with varying levels of experience, coaching and developing them to build capability and performance
• Interface with BD, Marketing, GCO/BAI etc. to leverage the Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) framework to support the delivery of business related process and ensure the process is being followed consistently, efficiently and that the process is being continuously improved, including

• Deal structure, deal sourcing processes
• Revenue Forecasting processes in BD cases
• Pricing, tenders and contracting process
• Content creation, review and approval process
• Other key commercial processes to be identified across the department

QUALIFICATIONS

Indicate qualifications that are job related, consistent with business necessity and necessary for the performance of an essential function of this role including: education/licenses/certifications, relevant experience (where legally permissible), technical and/or other job-related skills.

• BA Required; MBA or equivalent Master’s level education preferred
• 10+ years in Pharmaceutical commercial, business operation or strategic consulting positions
• Proven track record in organizing and driving complex global projects within matrixed organizations
• Strategic thinking, management consulting background preferred
• Deep understanding of change management and process re-engineering methodologies preferred
• Demonstrated strong business acumen in order to support alignment across multiple functions
• Demonstrated strength in managing multiple projects and/or programs (i.e., collection of sub-projects) and business analysis with strong problem-solving skills
• Extensive experience with aligning stakeholders, facilitating conflict, and communicating information in a way that enables leaders to have transparency on the underlying issues and potential solutions in varying settings including workshops, small group sessions or one-on-one meetings
• Able to interact, partner and provide thought leadership for executives with comfort and ease
• Extensive experience working with different markets and diverse cultures
• Working knowledge of bio pharma sector trends, Regional and Market healthcare dynamics and economics, customer landscape, and competitor trends and actions

PHYSICAL/MENTAL REQUIREMENTS

NON-STANDARD WORK SCHEDULE, TRAVEL OR ENVIRONMENT REQUIREMENTS

(not all roles will have non-standard work schedule travel, or environment requirements)

Include any work schedule, travel or environment requirements necessary for the performance of the role. Types of requirements might include ability to work particular hours (shift, overtime), travel or adhere to safe work practices and procedures such as aseptic gowning. Any criteria indicated must be job-related, consistent with business necessity, and specific to this role.

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