Job Description
Reporting to the Executive Director, Global Business Operations Lead for Animal Health, the primary focus of the role is to lead global portfolio management, which includes cross-functional initiatives focused launch excellence, creating a tiered launch model & process, and product life cycle management.
*This is a hybrid role which can be based out of any company office location in EURAM, NORAM, or LATAM*
Specific responsibilities will include but are not exclusive to:

• Lead cross-departmental projects focused on optimizing portfolio and product operations, processes, forecasting, enablers and ways of working. These projects are complex and have a big impact on the business.
• Coordinate and encourage multidisciplinary peers and key stakeholders to deliver exceptional performance and support within high performing and collaborative project teams.
• The first priority projects are Enterprise Launch Excellence and 5YP improvement.
• Lead Launch Excellence Workstream(s) such as,
  • Product Introduction Team & Process
  • UIN Introduction
  • Packaging & Artwork
  • Manufacturing & Commercialization
  • Regulatory Process Improvement
  • Commercial Readiness
  • End to End Launch Process and Portfolio Management Processes
  • IRIS owner
• Enhance the 5YP process for internal commercial colleagues, inclusive of exploring 'touchless' and 'exception based' forecasting using automated, statistical methodologies.
• Support portfolio level projects within Industry Leading Cost of Goods program.
• Ensure all enterprise systems, tool and enablers support new ways of working and processes globally.
• Continuously gather core user and stakeholder feedback to inform optimization efforts.
• Responsible for change management strategies focused on delivering effective project and program management for high-level cross-functional initiatives associated with the effective combination of technology and biopharma. An example is Launch Excellence and its components, including the acceleration of product launches, requiring new design and implementation plans and the effective coordination of multiple internal stakeholders, leading to simultaneous multiple market launches and the delivery of accelerated sales revenues.
• Build strong and effective relationships with the key internal stakeholders; including the influencing of senior Commercial and other functional leaders to align to challenging decisions associated with the transformation of our business into a technology-led Biopharma organization.

Essential Accountabilities: Strategic, Operational, and Leadership Responsibilities
Animal Health Commercial Competencies
Leadership Behaviors:

• Demonstrate Ethics & Integrity
• Drive Results
• Focus on Customers
• Act with Courage & Candor
• Foster Collaboration
• Make Rapid Disciplined Decisions

Professional Competencies:

• Expertise in our company's Animal Health's Product & Solutions Portfolios
• Working Across Boundaries
• Strategic Thinking
• Change Management
• Project Management
• Strategic Communication

Core Functional Competencies:

• Operational & Process Excellence
• Business Partnering
• Business Insight
• Peer engagement
• Service Excellence
• Change Management and Communications

Global Commercial Leadership Mindset:

• Thinks Broadly - Places broader organizational interests above own or team interest.
• Creates Strategic Visions - Creates a compelling vision for the team and has the ability to marry vision with other functions and influence others.
• Embraces an Agile Mindset & Coaching - Leads teams using appropriate agile methodology for the iterative development of tools, processes, and ideas, as well as to solve systemic problems through employing adaptive experimentation, collective responsibility, and agile methodologies.
• Champions Leadership Development - Champions leadership development initiatives and practices that contribute to a strong, diverse succession pool; hires and develops the best leaders and talent.
• Maintains a Growth & Transformational Mindset - Constantly looks for room for improvement and is open-minded and curious about new possibilities; adapts and embraces new practices, tools, and behaviors as the digital area evolves; understands and leverages technology to democratize, scale, and drive efficiency within every business action.
• Leverages Critical Metrics - Focuses on the critical metrics that drive unit and organizational performance.
• Connects Others (Super Connector) - Builds effective networks and acts with agility.
• Provides Coaching & Feedback - Makes coaching and providing feedback a priority across the organization; Demonstrates effective performance management; Holds direct reports accountable and ensures outcomes are achieved.
• Shares Power & Success - Shares power and success as a way to motivate teams and strengthen the organization; Pushes decisions down when appropriate; Empowers own team to make decisions; Encourages and supports others to express their views, especially on tough issues.
• Engages Others with Empathy - Appreciates and understands the perspective of others by putting oneself in others' shoes in order to connect and respond appropriately.
• Displays Customer Obsessions & Ownership - Demonstrates understanding of internal and external customers' needs and wants; Starts with customers and represents the voice of the customer, works backwards thinking, long-term business goals and results; conducts planning to ensure teams are focused on items with the highest impact to the business; Holds employees accountable for maintaining and acting in accordance with a "customer focused" mindset.
• Displays Resilience - Embraces ambiguity and drives to success with persistence.

Education:

• Bachelor's Degree; Master's Degree/MBA preferred.

Required:

• Minimum of 10 years of commercial sales, marketing, and/or business operations experience
• Strong change management skills and experience. Able to more than one high-level project concurrently
• Strong project governance skills
• Strong leadership level communication, influence, and collaboration skills necessary for garnering senior executive and cross-functional support for key initiatives and project outcomes.
• Proven track record of successfully creating strategic operations plan and delivering them successfully and on time.
• Advanced written and verbal communication and presentation skills
• Strong ability to influence others amidst times of change and transformation.
• Ability to manage budgets and resources effectively.
• Demonstrated computer proficiency including Excel and Business Intelligence tools.

Preferred:

• Experience in commercial operations and associated ecosystems highly desirable.
• Experience in the Technology space highly desirable.

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$181,600.00 - $285,800.00
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Employee Status:
Regular
Relocation:
No relocation
VISA Sponsorship:
No
Travel Requirements:
10%
Flexible Work Arrangements:
Hybrid
Shift:
Not Indicated
Valid Driving License:
No
Hazardous Material(s):
N/A
Requisition ID:R288727