Lead, Ophthalmics BU Operations and Planning
Astellas

Do you want to be part of an inclusive team that works to develop innovative therapies for patients? Every day, we are driven to develop and deliver innovative and effective new medicines to patients and physicians. If you want to be part of this exciting work, you belong at Astellas!

Astellas Pharma Inc. is a pharmaceutical company conducting business in more than 70 countries around the world. We are committed to turning innovative science into medical solutions that bring value and hope to patients and their families. Keeping our focus on addressing unmet medical needs and conducting our business with ethics and integrity enables us to improve the health of people throughout the world. For more information on Astellas, please visit our website at www.astellas.com.

This position is based in Parsippany, NJ. Hybrid work from certain states may be permitted in accordance with Astellas' Responsible Flexibility Guidelines. Candidates interested in hybrid work are encouraged to apply.

Purpose:

A strategic partner to the Chief Commercial Officer (CCO) and the Ophthalmics BU Leadership Team who helps manage the team's priorities, provide organization and tracking across multiple work streams, and provide project management for assigned initiatives. This role recommends processes and procedures to create efficient operations across the commercial organization by facilitating the implementation of our BU vision and the execution of our commercial strategies. This role requires a leader with an exceptional level of organization, project management and communication skills. In addition, this role requires an in-depth understanding of the different commercial and enterprise functions and their interdependencies.

Essential Job Responsibilities:

• Acts as an advisor to the CCO and the leadership team and provides thought partnership on key initiatives.
• Assesses and creates recommendations for commercial operations efficiency and leads initiatives for continuous improvement related to business operations, including establishing best practices.
• Serves as the primary organizer and owner for key team meetings.
• Track and communicate the overall commercial performance results.
• Create and support the development of presentations for CCO across a range of topics including, internal business updates, Town Halls, and external presentations, as needed.
• Partner with Communications lead to plan key commercial team communication events.
• Work with the leadership team to design and execute cultural initiatives and events to bring colleagues together, share priorities, celebrate success, and reinforce our leadership commitments.
• Partner with Finance and the leadership team for budget planning and tracking.
• Contributes to our compliance minded culture and supports the team to consistently operate in a compliant manner.