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Santen

Develops medicines and devices for eye health

Senior Director / Director - Head of Strategic Execution & Management

Corporate StrategyConfirmed live in the last 24 hours
Full-timeNo salary listedRemote

About the Job

Requirements

  • At least five years of practical experience in enterprise-level strategy development and execution at a strategy consulting firm or in a corporate planning or strategy department.
  • Experience personally leading topics involving direct engagement with senior executives, such as mid-term management plans, enterprise strategy, and important management issues.
  • Experience contributing through execution and results, including KPI design, progress management, and decision support, rather than strategy planning alone.
  • Professional experience in the pharmaceutical or life sciences industry.
  • Ability to structure complex, uncertain management issues, clarify priorities, and reach conclusions.
  • Ability to integrate quantitative and qualitative information and present clear options identifying the decisions management must make.
  • Ability to carry work through hypothesis development and validation, decision-making, and execution.
  • Sufficient understanding of business planning, profit-and-loss structure, investment decisions, and capital efficiency.
  • Ability to design and operate numbers as management indicators that guide strategy and action, rather than treating them only as outcome measures.
  • Ability to discuss issues as an equal with executives and senior managers and advance consensus despite differing opinions or conflicting interests.
  • Leadership ability to involve stakeholders, including those in overseas regions, to advance decision-making and execution.
  • Ability to communicate complex matters clearly, logically, and concisely.
  • Commitment to maximizing results as a team, not only delivering individual results.
  • Japanese and English business proficiency.

Responsibilities

  • Lead development and execution of enterprise-wide strategy to achieve medium- and long-term global growth, in alignment with the company's principles and vision, working closely with senior management from identifying and structuring management issues through solutions and results.
  • Evaluate business strategy and portfolio from an enterprise-wide perspective and identify key issues in advancing the mid-term management plan.
  • Organize enterprise-wide management issues, develop and advance solutions, manage progress and outcomes through Plan-Do-Check-Act, and operate cross-company projects.
  • Lead development of the enterprise mid-term management plan and translate the Santen Group's medium- and long-term growth strategy into concrete actions in close collaboration with management.
  • Define the organizational design, capabilities, and decision-making mechanisms needed for strategy execution, and build the systems and structures required to deliver results.
  • Collect and analyze quantitative and qualitative information on internal and external business conditions, including markets, competitors, regulation, and the macro environment, and structure key management issues.
  • Provide clear insights on management decisions and resource allocation, contributing to decision-making beyond analysis alone.
  • Collaborate with Finance and Administration to establish company-wide financial commitments, including sales, profit, and capital efficiency targets.
  • Translate these targets into departmental key performance indicators and lead management practices that maintain consistency between strategy and financial results.
  • Plan and implement improvements to management methods and governance to strengthen financial and investment discipline in achieving the mid-term management plan.
  • Lead transformation of processes for prioritizing and making decisions on company resources, including growth investment, costs, and personnel, from an enterprise-wide perspective.
  • Lead issue clarification and consensus-building across complex departmental and regional interests to enable timely decisions and execution.
  • Drive strategy end-to-end through execution in the field and realization in profit-and-loss results and key performance indicators.
  • Build and develop a professional team with skills in strategy development, key performance indicator management, and communication with senior management.
  • Develop employees' analytical and critical-thinking capabilities and foster a culture in which people take ownership of management issues and act proactively.
  • Extend Corporate Strategy function knowledge and working practices across the Santen Group through cross-organizational and global collaboration, strengthening enterprise-wide strategy execution.

About the Company

Santen

Develops medicines and devices for eye health

Santen researches, develops, manufactures and markets medicines and medical devices for eye care. Its portfolio includes prescription treatments for glaucoma, dry eye, allergies and other eye conditions, alongside nonprescription products and surgical devices. The company combines laboratory research and clinical development with formulation, quality control and manufacturing to bring products to healthcare markets. It earns revenue from pharmaceutical and device sales, working through regional subsidiaries and commercial partners to supply healthcare professionals, pharmacies and other customers. Founded in 1890, Santen is headquartered in Osaka, Japan, and sells products internationally.

Company size
1,001-5,000
Company stage
IPO
Headquarters
Not listed
Founded
1890

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