【Alexion Japan】Associate Director, Launch Planning Lead

This is what you will do:

The Associate Director, Portfolio Strategy & New Product Planning(PS&NPP)in Japan is responsible for contributing to business growth and profitability through driving launch excellences and a variety of external pipeline search and evaluation. The primary focus of the role is to evaluate new opportunities, manage the process and build long-term relationships with external and internal stakeholders with prospects in a manner consistent with Alexion Pharmaceutical's culture and values. As Associate Director, you have extensive professional experience in this field and required skills. The Associate Director reports to Head of PS&NPP and works in close collaboration with the other members in PS&NPP as well as other departments in Japan and global functions.

You will be responsible for:

• Lead Launch Excellence for internal pipelines

• Lead external pipeline search and evaluation activities such as commercial and financial evaluation, seeking for potential partnering opportunities.

• Development of portfolio strategy.

• Ideation of new business opportunities.

• Responsible and accountable for the overall successful relationship and contractual management of alliance programs resulting from various transactions.

• Lead and /or participate in Japan/global business development projects as a representative of Japan PS&NPP.

• Expand Alexion's industry presence through meetings and events.

• Develop marketing strategy for early-stage products based on target product profile, customer insights and unmet medical needs.

• Lead a cross-functional launch team to ensure a successful launch. 

• Acts as a project manager in launch preparation teams. 

You will need to have:

• Experience of product marketing. (at least 3 years of proven experience)

• Experience of pipeline search and evaluation activities is preferred.

• Understanding of launch excellence concept and operations

• Understanding of financial concepts to assess the attractiveness of opportunities, as well as commercial knowledge.

• Good understanding of the pharmaceutical/healthcare environment and a proven eye for commercial opportunities.

• Ability to prioritize and manage multiple tasks.

• Interpersonal, negotiation, meeting facilitation and presentation skills, as well as strong verbal and written communication skills.

• Willingness to accept variety of assignments, highly motivated, a self-starter, and performs well under stress.

• Ability to build and manage collaborative relationships at all levels inside and outside of the organization.

• Strategic thinking including the ability to incorporate the perspective of different stakeholders.

• Leadership that takes the initiative.

• Fluency in Japanese required; proficiency in English is preferred.

We would prefer for you to have:

• Bachelor’s degree in science, finance or other relevant degrees. Commercial and/or finance expertisedesirable.

• Scientific and commercial knowledge of rare disease space. (preferred)

• Advanced degree such as MBA. (preferred)