Sr Director/Exec Director Business Optimization Milano

Sr Director/Exec Director Business Optimization
Milano
Lombardia, Milano

Job Description, Business Optimization Lead, Hematology/Oncology (Senior/Executive Director, Project Delivery)

Your Key Results Areas:

- Organize the update and implementation of the HemOnc Strategic Growth Plan

- Support critical business processes including: (1) Financial Risk Management; (2) Commercial Performance; (3) Resource prioritization, allocation, forecasting; (4) Operational Performance; (5) Quality; and (6) Customer Engagement

- Understand HemOnc business needs and lean into opportunities for optimization

Responsibilities & Remit

The Senior/Executive Director will work with Therapeutic Unit Head (TUH), HemOnc Senior Leadership team (SLT) and key internal and external stakeholders to lead and coordinate the Strategic Growth HemOnc.

- Strategically coordinate specific actions associated with HemOnc TU strategic growth plan implementation and/or revision including liaising with commercial team and cross enterprise functions

- Work with the Operations delivery lead to prepare and coordinate HemOnc business growth and optimization content and delivers presentations for SLT meetings and PM/CTM team meetings and other HemOnc TU events

- Maintain an understanding of current and future market trends that may impact current and/or future innovative HemOnc TU operational delivery strategies

- Scan the HemOnc therapeutic and operational landscape with the disease area leads to develop long-term implementation strategies that maximize opportunities to add value

- Maintain a solid understanding of the HemOnc competitive environment and continuously drive for cost competitive pricing

- Collaborate with Business segment leads and Operational Strategy Leads (OSLs) to ensure

- Compelling and feasible tailor-made proposal strategies that differentiate PPD HemOnc from the competition to continuously drive business growth.

- Facilitates cross functional deep dive into commercial losses for key strategic opportunities with focus on optimizing future performance

- Collaborates with cross-functional management to remove barriers and seek efficiencies in the development and adherence to HemOnc strategies

- Work in the annual/periodic review of client-specific business development plans to ensure HemOnc TU alignment with, and augmentation of, those plans

- Partnership with development operations and biotech portfolio leads as well as EDS, GCL; etc. to identify opportunities and to increase visibility into key target accounts

- Ensure we provide drug development process, strategy, and planning consulting with BioPharma, Biotech and Venture Capital partnerships' leads and clients/potential clients to optimally position HemOnc TU capabilities

- Liaise with Disease Area Leads, Indication champions and SMEs to augment support for key commercial opportunities, case study repository and core capability materials for niche indications and populations

- Strengthening HemOnc SLT relationship and collaboration with Evidera, Global Product Development (GPD), Biotech/Biopharma, and Pharmacovigilance Group (PVG) physicians to optimize incorporation of specialist clinical and medical expertise and client relationships into proposal strategy and key operational challenges

- Chair/co-Chair TUH monthly HemOnc Business Strategy calls and pipeline review with key stakeholders.

Responsible for focused agenda, communication of expectations to participants, documentation of outcomes, actions, and follow-up

- Drive the HemOnc TU team to leverage and consolidate all available data to build project strategy.

Balance use of external research and data within PPD's internal data sources

- Together with the Disease Area Leads coordinate revision and maintenance of HemOnc TU-specific 'sell sheets' and BD rep training materials and presentations

- Focused on key growth opportunities for the HemOnc TU

- Member of the HemOnc TU SLT and serves as thought partner for the TUH on a variety of strategic and organizational decisions

- Organize weekly HemOnc SLT business review topics to ensure focus on key area

- Understand and support key business processes including (1) Financial Risk Management; (2) Commercial Performance; (3) Resource prioritization, allocation, forecasting; (4) Operational Performance; (5) Quality; and (6) Customer Engagement

- Work with Finance Pillar to optimize risk management

- Track and report commercial performance and trends

- Manage resource priorities for roles supporting study teams (Startup, Clinical Operations regional resources, logistics, labs, etc.

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- Track and report KPIs that reflect operational performance and quality

- Optimize client engagement opportunities

- Identify opportunities for business optimization and track backlog of ideas for prioritization

Most Critical Competencies:

- Advanced Analytical capabilities

- Business/Financial acumen

- Strategic thinker

- Process improvement mindset

- Executive presence

- Verbal/Written communication

- Project management

- Results oriented LI-Remote

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