Total 2 job vacancies by Astrazeneca Singapore Pte Ltd

Commercial Strategic and Marketing Excellence Lead, SINGAPORE

Do you have expertise in, and passion for, marketing and digital excellence? Would you like to apply your expertise to impact the lives of patients in a company that follows the science and turns ideas into life changing medicines? Then AstraZeneca might be the one for you!

ABOUT ASTRAZENECA

AstraZeneca is a global, science-led, patient-focused biopharmaceutical company that focuses on the discovery, development and commercialisation of prescription medicines for some of the world’s most serious diseases. But we’re more than one of the world’s leading pharmaceutical companies. We are on a journey to bring life-saving medicines to patients. Our role in contributing to decreasing mortality rates globally is clear – shaping the future by spotting a scientifically-led commercial opportunity and acting now to operationalise and scale it.

Our Singapore Marketing Company (SGMC) is responsible for the marketing of our medicines in Singapore. Here you’ll also find colleagues from AstraZeneca’s corporate functions and our Asia and International regions’ sales and marketing teams. As a member of the Singapore Association of Pharmaceutical Industries (SAPI), all of our sales, marketing and communications activities are subject to the SAPI Code of Conduct.

BUSINESS AREA – Singapore Marketing Company, Innovation & Business Excellence

Our team proudly leads the way as the fastest growing pharmaceutical. But we’re not done yet – we’re fearless in setting the direction for a new future to keep progressing for our patients. We’re bringing transformative drugs to those that need them the most by combining continuous new launches with unique solutions across the whole patient journey. It’s how we are able to truly make a difference to the quality of lives and answer huge unmet patient needs. In our ever-evolving and complex markets, it takes entrepreneurial thinking to stay at the forefront. Fusing our diverse minds with local ownership we’re powered with everything we need to shape a new future for AstraZeneca, our markets and our patients.

What you’ll do

You'll lead and facilitate marketing strategy and marketing/digital excellence activities. This includes leading the planning and implementing of all marketing strategy activities and training programs/events related to upskilling of marketers. You'll improve commercial analysis, develop digital capabilities, enhance omni-channel engagement and integrate patient-centric approaches (user journeys to brand plans. Acting as a change agent to drive continuous improvement in marketing and digital capabilities towards a customer centric and high performance culture across organization, you'll collaborate with cross-functional and above country teams to drive excellence in marketing and digital capabilities and create best practices for other countries to follow.

Main Duties & Responsibilities:

• Lead for assessing marketing capabilities of marketers and upskilling of marketing function, and liaison with global marketing excellence.
• Commercial lead for strategic and execution planning process and responsible for cross-functional team’s readiness for all reviews by Asia Area.
• Lead for marketing induction program for new marketers. Responsible for creating/updating content and deliver a meaningful induction program for new joinees.
• Lead for launch excellence activities and tracking of marketing KPIs.
• Prioritization, execution and delivery of Asia Area and countries priorities, including working with the CP to ensure that priorities are set and maintained, including adjusting schedules to preserve the execution of stated and agreed priorities.
• Support the CP to drive cross-functional accountability, including selective assignment of strategic projects partnering with the Leadership Team of an AA market or across AA markets.
• Support market research.
• Lead for patient centric mindset, development of user journeys and integration of patient mapping activities into brand planning and execution.
• Lead for digital capability development. Drive omni-channel capabilities and support brand teams to plan and execute omni-channel campaigns in collaboration with IT.
• Drive insights and analytics capabilities so that marketers make informed choices/decisions based on data from multichannel platforms.
• Lead advance segmentation and targeting (micro-segmentation) capabilities so that marketers can focus on customization and personalization of campaigns for improved and seamless hyper-personalised customer engagement
• Drive continuous innovation and be the change agent to drive continuous improvement in marketing capabilities so that marketers feel confident and comfortable trying new things
• Project manager for select strategic projects.

Essential for the role

• Bachelor’s degree
• You have 6 years of working experience with minimum of 2 years marketing experience in the pharmaceutical, biotech, medical device or healthcare industry.
• Demonstrated good understanding of omni-channel engagement capabilities
• Experience in utilizing latest digital tools & trends to improve customer reach & engagement
• Demonstrated leadership, negotiation and communication skills
• Demonstrated ability to lead and produce results in a matrix environment: “Lead without Authority”
• Demonstrated proficiency in Microsoft Office product suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint)

Desirable for the role

• Strong strategic thinking and planning capability
• Strategic business consulting experience
• Ability to work collaboratively across different levels and in multicultural work environment
• Ability to foster relationship and influence outcomes

Why AstraZeneca?

At AstraZeneca we’re dedicated to being a Great Place to Work. Where you are empowered to push the boundaries of science and unleash your entrepreneurial spirit. There’s no better place to make a difference to medicine, patients and society. An inclusive culture that champions diversity and collaboration, and always committed to lifelong learning, growth and development. We’re on an exciting journey to pioneer the future of healthcare.

So, what’s next?

• Are you already imagining yourself joining our team? Good, because we can’t wait to hear from you.
• Are you ready to bring new ideas and fresh thinking to the table? Brilliant! We have one seat available and we hope it’s yours.

AstraZeneca is a leading global biopharmaceutical company. We believe the best way we can help patients is to focus on breakthrough science to uncover disease mechanisms and develop novel, targeted therapies that interact with them. This is at the heart of our purpose as a company: to push the boundaries of science to deliver life-changing medicines.

The Singapore Country Finance Business Partner is a key local role, providing robust and insightful decision support to the management team to enable the delivery of our financial objectives at both operational and strategic levels. The role involves forecasting, planning, and analysis that drive a commercially focused business and promote an optimized and focused performance culture. This role will also act as Finance Business Partner to the Singapore business providing financial guidance and support needed for key business decisions. This includes responsibilities such as identifying business risks and opportunities, finding pragmatic approaches to challenges, and supporting the implementation of solutions and post-implementation reviews.

Main Duties & Responsibilities

Singapore

• Serve as a member of the Singapore country leadership team (CLT)
• Provide financial advice and counsel to CLT and responsible for supporting the team on strategy development and execution, resource allocation, portfolio management, and opportunity identification and maximization
• Responsible for developing and maintaining sound financial processes, including supporting systems, for budgets, latest forecasts, and local management reports.
• Leads the market Budget and Long-Range Plan submissions to Area Finance in accordance with defined group reporting requirements.
• Leads communication and alignment with Area Finance regarding financial submissions requirements.
• Close collaboration with Global Finance Services to ensure forecast and actual data loaded into multiple financial reporting applications and management reports are accurate and aligned.
• Responsible for obtaining a solid understanding of the market and global AstraZeneca portfolio of brands and functional areas along with key business drivers, risk factors, and trends and applying this knowledge.
• Provide commercial insights to cross-functional teams and support business growth through rigorous evaluation of P&L, key business drivers, and understanding of risks and opportunities.
• Identifies and implements continuous improvement opportunities for the planning and reporting processes.
• Assist in preparation of presentations, reports, and associated analysis for the market CLT, CFO, and Country President requests.
• Supports ad-hoc reporting requirements and financial analysis for local and group management.
• Perform International reporting as needed.
• Be an active member of CLT meetings, providing leadership and support in initiatives that promote organization culture that is in line with AZ values.
• Provide relevant finance training to non-finance personnel when necessary.

Essential Requirements:

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree at an accredited College or University (degree in Finance or Accounting preferred)
• >10 years of post-qualification experience, with minimum
• 5 years in a managerial role of similar nature in commercial organizations
• Skill in analyzing and solving issues related to controllership areas
• Experience in working with senior management in a matrix environment

Desirable Requirements:

• Demonstrated continuous personal growth and learning agility throughout the leadership journey
• Pharmaceutical or other regulated industry experience highly desirable