Commercial Strategy Manager (Beijing, Beijing, CN)

Your impact begins here

As Commercial Strategy Manager, you will help turn enterprise commercial choices into focused action across Mainland China. You will connect portfolio insight, business planning and disciplined execution, giving leaders and teams a clearer view of priorities, trade-offs and opportunities. Through thoughtful analysis and practical recommendations, you will strengthen decision-making across disease areas and help strategic initiatives deliver measurable business value.

What you’ll bring

You combine strong commercial judgement with the ability to bring structure to complex questions. You can work confidently with data, engage different stakeholders and translate analysis into decisions and action.

A bachelor’s degree or above in business, strategy, marketing, economics, finance, pharmaceuticals, life sciences or a related discipline. A relevant postgraduate degree or professional qualification would be an advantage.

Typically, 5–8 years of relevant experience in pharmaceutical commercial functions, strategy, portfolio management, business planning, finance, analytics or consulting.

Demonstrated experience in portfolio analysis, business-case development, performance management and cross-functional programme delivery.

Strong financial acumen, structured problem-solving skills and experience using scenarios to evaluate priorities, risks and investment options.

The ability to create clear, executive-ready recommendations and presentations from complex market, financial and operational information.

Strong written and spoken English and Chinese, together with the ability to influence and build alignment without direct reporting authority. Experience working across brands or disease areas would be preferred.

What you’ll do

Build and maintain an integrated portfolio view across disease areas by bringing together brand, market, customer, channel, financial and competitive information. Identify opportunities, risks and trade-offs, and develop fact-based prioritisation recommendations.

Support the annual commercial strategy and planning cycle by producing analyses, decision materials, timelines and milestone trackers. Turn enterprise choices and resource-allocation principles into clear guidance and action plans for disease-area and brand teams.

Lead selected enterprise and Marketing strategic initiatives from problem definition through implementation. Structure complex business questions, establish workplans and governance, coordinate workstreams and keep decisions moving.

Develop portfolio analyses, scenarios, investment options and business cases using market, financial and operational data. Convert complex findings into practical recommendations and clear choices for decision-makers.

Maintain portfolio key performance indicators, initiative dashboards, risk logs and action trackers. Identify execution gaps, recommend corrective action and assess whether decisions are delivering their intended value.

Prepare and facilitate portfolio and strategic governance forums, ensuring that ownership, milestones, dependencies and next steps remain clear across functions.

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