Portfolio Management & PMO Manager, SPC
About this opportunity
Job title: Portfolio Management & PMO Manager, SPC
Location: Tokyo, HQ
About the job
ROLE RESPONSIBILITIES
Portfolio management & PMO Manager plays an integral role predominantly by, but not limited to, the following key tasks:
Provides strategic, tactical and operational support to initiatives supporting growth and innovation for SPC GBU in Japan
Leads GBU governance and strategic agenda
Drives transversal projects with the Leadership Team
Shapes and drives Business Development projects to support Sanofi Japan 2030 roadmap, enhance portfolio and footprint and ramp up business
Manages selected strategic partnerships, in close alignment with the GM and Global wherever necessary.
Go To Market local lead
Partners with commercial and marketing decision makers and provides analytics expertise to contribute to integrated launch roadmap to achieve launch success, at Global, GBUs and country levels. Develops and leverages data driven insights to support robust launch forecast and roadmap and to measure launch success. Provides project management expertise and proposes best in class methodologies and tools to support the design, execution and tracking of launch plans.
Has demonstrated advanced proficiency on all competencies and is considered as an expert on support to launch plan design, insights generation and support to the launch execution.
Lean Design, Training & Capabilities Assessment
Designs & sustains adequate governance for performance management.
Orchestrates target setting and consistent strategy cascading across the organization.
Identifies relevant KPIs.
Designs performance scorecards.
Identifies & orchestrates relevant approaches for internal / external performance benchmarking.
Crunches and / or analyses benchmark data to inform the construction of performance plans by sites / IA platforms / departments or functions.
Management of operational standards and Continuous Improvement
Owns a given business process or methodology standard.
Designs and / or optimizes standard(s).
Orchestrates the deployment of standards with discipline.
Develops awareness and adoption of standards.
Tracks metrics for standard coverage & adoption.
Management of performance and transformation
Defines and drives performance at program level.
Designs & sustains adequate governance for performance management.
Identifies & coordinates platform / function-specific initiatives driving the performance.
Implement the predefined set of KPI for program result measurement and impact.
Enriches where adequate on program.
Identifies and orchestrates relevant approaches for internal / external performance benchmarking.
Monitors actual progress made vs targets and issues alerts / recommendation for corrective action plans.
Develops strategy & content, orchestrates deployment through a community / site, cluster population.
Sets ambition for a given transformation program on site level.
Designs and plans the transformation and develop a detailed action plan.
Drives the implementation of transformative initiatives, including digital and data driven, to achieve demanding business targets.
Provides adequate trainings and coaching to local team to ensure sustainability of implemented changes
Follows up on the meeting outcomes and action items
Provides timely market information to local and teams to support fact-based decision-making
Represents company’s interests in Japan and ensures high compliance with Sanofi SOPs and local legislation and transversal coordination with other Sanofi GBUs
Leads, coordinates or supports projects and initiatives for business growth and delivering on priorities within GBU and as One Sanofi
Initiates projects to accelerate transformation
Continuously works on improving existing project management methodology (process, tool, mindset...)
Collaborates with all departments for alignment and impact
Supports the development of innovation initiatives in country and facilitates the follow-up of the roll-out
About you
MAIN REQUIREMENTS
5 years+ experience in Marketing and/or Commercial, Sales management, Project Management and/or similar roles with strategic scope
Strong stakeholder management experience with global and local senior exectives
Experience in leading project teams involving different functions is a big plus.
Understanding of the market, regulatory environment, competition and future trends, and good understanding of our value chain.
Strong analytical skills and finds joy in working with numbers as well as is proficient in working with MS Office (especially Excel and PowerPoint)
Ability to take fact-based, data-driven decisions based on customer-centric needs.
Ability and joy to manage relationships across various stakeholders
Role model of PTW behaviors.
CRITICAL EXPERIENCES REQUIRED TO BE SUCCESSFUL IN THE ROLE
Excellent analytical and presentation skills
Interpersonal skills as well as influence, negotiation and empathetic, conflict resolution skills
Fluent in Japanese and English
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