GTMC-GTMC Strategy and Operations Lead, Greater China-Shanghai

About the job

We are an innovative global healthcare company, committed to transforming the lives of people with immune challenges, rare diseases and blood disorders, cancers, and neurological disorders. From R&D to sales, our talented teams work together, revolutionizing treatment, continually improving products, understanding unmet needs, and connecting communities. We chase the miracles of science every single day, pursuing progress to make a real impact on millions of patients around the world.

Strategic context:

Go To Market Capability (GTMC) organization aims for:

• Centralization of Go-to-Market excellence and operational tasks across GBUs
• Harmonizing best-in-class capabilities with strengthened global support while verticalization of reporting within GTMC from local to global,
• Defining clear ways of working and bringing clarity on interfaces with GBUs, Digital, and executional support on commercial operations form Sanofi hubs to optimize process excellence and efficiency.

Sanofi Greater China is facing a high pace of changes aiming at making the organization across GBUs more agile and impactful organization, adapting the constantly and proactively the resources to the environmental changes.

The Strategy & Operations Lead is a critical role that supports the Head of GC GTMC and GC GTMC Leadership Team to effectively manage their priorities, facilitate governance and act as an interface to connect the dots with their teams and the rest of the organization.

The Strategy & Operations Lead role often includes components of strategy (understanding and translation of the of the Leadership Team vision and priorities), facilitation (enabling the leadership team to work together and getting to decision faster), project management (leading highly important projects in white spaces), and bridges building (connecting the dots within the leadership team and with the rest of the organization).

This role partners closely with both the Head of GC GTMC and its leadership team (LT) on a daily basis to run and monitor transversal priorities and deliver high impact projects.

Main responsibilities:

Create GC GTMC Governance to support decision making and information sharing within the organization

• Set up and maintain GC GTMC Governance to align leadership teams on key priorities throughout the year: leadership team meetings, offsite meetings, strategic committees and decision bodies, participants, frequency etc.
• Support the execution of the GC GTMC Roadmap in alignment with the Global GTMC Roadmap, by ensuring regular monitoring of KPIs; prepare updates and action tracking for leadership team
• Organize and drive leadership team agenda; ensure action item follow up after meetings
• Improve our organizational effectiveness with a specific focus on commercial functions including designing and implementing new organizational models

Manage GC GTMC Leadership Team interactions to ensure an effective use of time focusing on priorities

• Ensure that GC GTMC Leadership team interactions are agenda driven with clear objectives, actionable items and follow thru. Including ensuring calendar is up to date and aligned with the evolving priorities of the organization: LT meetings, country visits, internal and external engagements
• Coordinate preparatory work and briefing materials for key meetings
• Support internal and external communication: internal presentations, townhall, speeches, etc.

Lead projects as required to support the execution of the GC GTMC strategic roadmap:

• Lead or coordinate projects that are important/strategic for GC GTMC that are cross-pillar (Insights & Analytics, Customer Facing, and Omnichannel) and may not fit into any one given pillar
• Leverage and engage resources across the organization to ensure priorities are delivered
• Interface with the broader organization on transversal projects that requires GC GTMC involvement
• Constantly look, propose and implement initiatives and solutions to deliver higher business efficiency and simplification in alignment with the business teams and Global Support Functions.

About you

Basic qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Business, Marketing, or related field
• 8-10 years of relevant professional business experience, with at least 5 years in strategic planning or managing cross-functional projects
• Ability to work cross-functionally, strong team player
• Ability to manage confidential information and understand relevance and sensitivity
• Excellent problem-solving skills, analytical and strategic capabilities
• Strong project management skills
• Fluency in Mandarin and English (both written and spoken)

Leadership Skills:

• Strong relationship & Influence: Inspires trust through empathy and authenticity
• Results orientation: executes, is comfortable with ambiguity, and adapts with agility
• Strategic thinking: disrupts status quo with innovation, while remaining pragmatic and focused on priorities.
• Self-starter, works independently and can drive action across the team and with stakeholders

Preferred qualifications:

• Experience working in or with global GTMC teams
• Commercial Operations knowledge and understanding of key dimensions such as Insight & Analytics, Field Operations, Omnichannel, Marketing Operations, etc. a plus

Pursue progress, discover extraordinary

Better is out there. Better medications, better outcomes, better science. But progress doesn’t happen without people – people from different backgrounds, in different locations, doing different roles, all united by one thing: a desire to make miracles happen. So, let’s be those people.

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