Business Unit Lead Neuroscience Milano

Business Unit Lead Neuroscience
Milano
Lombardia, Milano

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Johnson & Johnson Innovative Medicine is currently looking for a Business Unit Lead (BUL) for the therapeutic area of Neuroscience, based in Milan.

The BUL is a member of the Commercial Forum (CF) reporting to the Business Unit Director (BUD) of Specialty Care.

The BUL is responsible for Marketing and Sales: * Delivering business results and managing operational expenses and resources accordingly; * Providing operational leadership to ensure industry best-practices in Customer Interaction Excellence; * Engaging regional EMEA stakeholders including Integrated Brand Value Team Leaders (IBVTL), to shape strategy, align forecasts and resourcing plans (in line with the 'Collaborate' model); * Leading, coaching and developing the marketing team to ensure engagement with the functional network, co-creation of brand strategy and effective localization through outstanding Country Value Team (CVT) leadership; * Leading and coaching District Managers * Providing organizational leadership beyond areas of immediate business responsibility; * Driving a competitive mind-set and an organizational culture of accountability, empowerment and flexibility; * Ensuring attentiveness and high standards across all areas of compliance, including all applicable laws and regulations, Company healthcare and quality standards; * Identifying, developing and career-pathing organizational High-Potentials as well as managing performance if and when required; * Demonstrating and role-modelling outstanding leadership behavior consistent with Our Credo and the Johnson & Johnson Leadership Imperatives; * Communicating the OpCo vision, mission and strategic objectives in a compelling and persuasive manner to ensure alignment of individual and business unit objectives and a clear line of sight between day-to-day activities and the bigger picture; * Engaging with key external stakeholders including prescribers, payers, policy-makers and other emerging stakeholder groups to understand and shape the external healthcare environment.

Key Activities: * Provide strategic thinking and direction to organizational and brand issues via the Business Planning cycle (PBP, FBP, JU and LRFP); * Challenge the organization's thinking and approach to provide improvements to the business through effective engagement with the Commercial Forum (CF); * Lead JJIM interface with external stakeholders through meetings, forums and other appropriate platforms; * Monitor market data from both internal and external sources to plan and review the overall resource allocation by brand and across portfolio and ensure Customer Interaction Excellence; * Conduct reviews with the marketing and sales teams, to assist them in prioritizing and managing workloads and projects; * Manage the business unit P&L and provide insights that guide strategic decision making for the organization to guide resource allocation across the business and sales forecasting; * Influence business decisions at brand, BU, CF, Company and EMEA level to ensure effective trade-offs and resource prioritization based on effective performance; * Direct and manage the marketing team to guide the implementation of EMEA co-created strategies and local executional tactics from the Brand Value Plan (BVP); * Create a working environment that fosters open communication, a sense of urgency, high standards, flexibility, agility and competitiveness.

Expected abilities and behaviors * Strategic Thinking and big-picture orientation, while focusing on operational execution; * Outstanding Leadership, influencing and communication skills; * Engaging a matrix organization to drive goal alignment, make trade-offs and deliver business results; * Flexibility and Adaptability to succeed in implementing new organizational structures and capabilities; * Learning Agility to quickly gain new skills, competencies and knowledge; * Entrepreneurial Thinking; * Analytical Thinking and data orientation; * Balancing urgency with patience, when required, to ensure organizational and business outcomes.

Required experience and background * Experience in an operational environment managing teams is required; * International Experience is preferred; * Demonstrated success in deliver outstanding business results; * Marketing and Sales experience is preferred; * University Education degree is required.

An advanced degree in business or life sciences is preferred; * Fluency in Italian & English is required; * The successful candidate must have a Healthcare background and has demonstrated a strategic mindset, decision making ability and is able to summarize and integrate input.

* Up to 50% International Travel