Senior Director – Head of Strategic Execution & Management

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Japan.

📋 Description

• Lead the formulation and execution of corporate strategies and mid-term management plans.

• Collaborate with executive management to identify and structure company-wide management issues, driving solutions from planning to outcome realization.

• Analyze business strategies and portfolios to extract key challenges for the mid-term management plan.

• Define and build the necessary organizational design, capabilities, and decision-making mechanisms for strategy execution.

• Collect and analyze quantitative and qualitative information regarding the market, competitors, regulations, and macroeconomic environment.

• Structure critical management issues and provide recommendations for decision-making and resource allocation.

• Work with the finance and management headquarters to develop financial targets such as revenue, profit, and capital efficiency.

• Translate corporate goals into departmental KPIs and lead KPI management.

• Plan and introduce advanced management techniques and governance to strengthen financial and investment discipline.

• Transform the prioritization and decision-making processes for management resources such as growth investments, costs, and personnel.

• Lead consensus-building and stakeholder alignment across departments and regions.

• Execute strategies in the field, ensuring consistent advancement until reflected in P/L and KPIs.

• Build and nurture a team focused on strategy formulation, KPI management, and communication with executive management.

• Disseminate insights and working methods from Corporate Strategy across the entire Santen Group.

⛳️ Requirements

• Practical experience in corporate-level strategy formulation and execution, with approximately 5 years in strategic planning or consulting firms, or in related departments of a business company.

• Experience leading themes that directly engage with executive management, such as mid-term management plans, corporate strategies, and key management issues.

• Involvement in not just strategy formulation but also in KPI design, progress management, and decision support, extending to execution and outcome generation.

• Work experience in the pharmaceutical or life sciences industry.

• Ability to structure complex and uncertain management issues, clarify priorities, and derive conclusions.

• Skill to integrate quantitative and qualitative information and present clear options for management decisions.

• Consistent thought process from hypothesis creation to verification, decision-making, and execution.

• Strong understanding of management metrics such as business planning, profit and loss structures, investment judgments, and capital efficiency.

• Capability to design and operate management metrics as numerical indicators.

• Ability to engage in discussions with executives and senior management on equal footing and advance consensus-building.

• Leadership to drive decision-making and execution while involving stakeholders, including those from overseas regions.

• High explanatory ability to convey complex content in a concise and logical manner.

• A commitment to maximizing team results.

• Willingness and experience in enhancing the thinking capacity and perspectives of junior and mid-level employees.

• Proficiency in performing duties in both Japanese and English.

🏝️ Benefits

• Flexible working arrangements.

• Inclusive physical and virtual workplace.

• Equal opportunity employment.

• Recruitment accommodations available upon request.