Manager, Medical Business Operations, Biopharma

Sumitomo Pharma Co., Ltd. is a global pharmaceutical company based in Japan with key operations in the U.S. (Sumitomo Pharma America, Inc.), Canada (Sumitomo Pharma Canada, Inc.) and Europe (Sumitomo Pharma Switzerland GmbH) focused on addressing patient needs in oncology, urology, women's health, rare diseases, psychiatry & neurology, and cell & gene therapies. With several marketed products in the U.S., Canada, and Europe, and a diverse pipeline of early- to late-stage assets, we aim to accelerate discovery, research, and development to bring novel therapies to patients sooner. For more information on SMPA, visit our website https://www.us.sumitomo-pharma.com or follow us on LinkedIn.

Job Overview

We are currently seeking a dynamic and highly motivated individual for the position of Manager Medical Business Operations, Biopharma.  This individual will work within Women’s Health, Urology and Rare Disease.

This individual will report to the Sr. Director, Medical Business Operations, working to maximize the performance and impact of the business.  This role will anticipate, identify, understand, engage in, and support effective prioritization of issues and opportunities across the MA organization and ensure resolution and implementation in a timely and effective manner.

Job Duties and Responsibilities

Key responsibilities in the following areas:

• Operational Management Leadership:
  • Work to ensure operational efficiency within biopharma medical affair asset teams
  • Manage meeting agendas and actively support Medical Affairs Scientific Teams (MAST) and Global Medical Affairs Meetings (GMAM) through scheduling, participation, and slide generation
  • This includes fit for purpose attendance, decision-oriented agendas, capture, tracking and follow up of action items and working with the appropriate colleague(s) to ensure seamless planning and logistics
  • Leading special projects, strategic partner to medical affair strategy teams and seek out and apply learnings for greater efficiency or faster impact and ensuring effective use of resources by maximizing the use of matrixed and enabling function teams
  • Provide strategic and operations support to the medical strategy teams
• Leadership & Team Management:
  • Help address and coordinate resolution of requests from various stakeholders
  • Partner cross-functionally with enabling internal functions and networks, while also partnering externally, as needed, to deliver insights and initiatives.
• Finance and Budget Management:
  • Manage budgets, ensuring alignment, accruals, with financial targets and providing monthly updates to senior leadership.
  • Collaborate with finance for accurate financial reporting and accrual management.
  • Support contract management
• Strategy and Program support:
  • Partner with alliances on strategic initiatives per agreed on strategy and tactics
  • Manage project life cycle, ensuring on-time and budget-compliant delivery
  • Keep stakeholders informed about project risks, issues, and necessary changes.
  • Provide strategic and tactical input to sub-teams on their medical activities (as needed)
• Process Improvement:
  • Uphold project management best practices.
  • Maintain effective tracking systems and identify areas for process improvement to enhance efficiency and reduce bottlenecks.

Key Core Competencies

• The ability to collaborate with peers, work in matrix organization, and achieve meaningful outcomes and create business impact.
• Knowledge of the pharmaceutical industry and healthcare environment; experience in science-based roles is preferred
• Proven leadership skills, executive presence, maturity, emotional intelligence, and written/oral communication skills.
• Familiarity with strategic and operating planning processes
• Interpersonal skills and working in a matrix environment
• Demonstrated Strategic mindset with past example(s) of strategy contributions
• Must be able to both drive strategy and execute with speed and high quality
• Track record of strong networking and working collaboratively across functions and geographies
• Demonstrated analytical and problem-solving skills
• Strong writing,