Oncology Business Unit Director

Job Description

We invite you to join our team

Reporting directly to the Associate Vice President for Puerto Rico and Central America & Caribbean Cluster, the role will be responsible for oversight and leadership of Oncology Business Unit for Puerto Rico.

Responsibilities include build-out and market planning to ensure that Oncology commercial & marketing strategy, tactics and infrastructure are in place to successfully achieve new products launch, operating plans and critical milestones. In addition, this position will work closely with local pricing and market access colleagues to appropriately communicate value, drive access and assist patient care. Also, will have full Profit & Loss responsibility.

In addition will also manage and interact with global brand teams, regional and local project teams. As a senior member of the leadership team, will drive Oncology transformation and actively engage the organization and beyond.

Major Responsibilities:

• Effective execution by assuming responsibility for the Profit & Loss within a multifunctional organization and achieving annual budget targets, in a highly strategic and competitive therapeutic area.
• Achieves targets by prioritizing on strong financial performance and successfully delivering on operational commitments including top line revenue growth, market share improvement and increased profits.
• Develops imaginative, broad based and non-traditional approaches to develop Oncology business opportunities using a customer driven, end-to-end approach adapting rapidly to new situations and continually seek for new opportunities.
• Evaluates alternatives, have the constitution for change, and the skills to drive it. Drives change and generate new ideas. Encourage others to generate ideas.
• Engages, motivates and inspires the organization (marketing, sales and other functions). Set direction for the business and align the team to enthusiastically execute on Oncology strategy.
• Demonstrates ability to guide and influence people and teams.
• Attracts, retains and develops strong and diverse talents.
• Builds strong relationship with regional and global organizations by integrating the broader organization’s expertise and know-how into the operations and take guidance effectively and contribute to corporate knowledge resources as well.
• Works with peers, cross-Business Unit resources, Regional and Headquarters' colleagues.

Skills/Experience Required:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Pharmacy, Science, Marketing, Communication, Economics, or other related areas. Master's Degree and/or MBA (Marketing and Sales Management, Business Management, or other related areas), preferred.
• Five (5) or more years of commercial experience within the pharmaceutical and/or health industry.
• Five (5) or more years of experience in managing and developing teams.
• Five (5) or more years of Oncology market experience including commercial launch and product life cycle management.
• Experience in the end-to-end process of launching, promoting, and supplying pharmaceutical products.
• Experience developing strategies, managing resources, and subsequently delivering business outcomes in alignment with that strategy.
• Experience delivering through others, can assist and enable team members through effective coaching and mentoring.
• Experience in collaborating across markets/with region/global; able to build strong professional networks to deliver on joint objectives.
• Proficiency in English and Spanish, both oral and written.
• Willing to travel up to 30% of the time.

Employees working in roles that the Company determines require routine collaboration with external stakeholders, such as customer-facing commercial, or research-based roles, will be expected to comply not only with Company policy but also with policies established by such external stakeholders (for example, a requirement to be vaccinated against COVID-19 in order to access a facility or meet with stakeholders).  Please understand that, as permitted by applicable law, if you have not been vaccinated against COVID-19 and an essential function of your job is to call on external stakeholders who require vaccination to enter their premises or engage in face-to-face meetings, then your employment may pose an undue burden to business operations, in which case you may not be offered employment, or your employment could be terminated. Please also note that, where permitted by applicable law, the Company reserves the right to require COVID-19 vaccinations for positions, such as in Global Employee Health, where the Company determines in its discretion that the nature of the role presents an increased risk of disease transmission.

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US and Puerto Rico Residents Only:

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Employee Status:

Regular

Relocation:

International

VISA Sponsorship:

Yes

Travel Requirements:

25%

Flexible Work Arrangements:

Not Applicable

Shift:

1st - Day

Valid Driving License:

No

Hazardous Material(s):

N/A

Requisition ID:R282808

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