Portfolio Management & PMO Manager, SPC

Job title: Portfolio Management & PMO Manager, SPC • Location: Tokyo, HQ   About the job ROLE RESPONSIBILITIES Portfolio management & PMO Manager plays an integral role predominantly by, but not limited to, the following key tasks: • Provides strategic, tactical and operational support to initiatives supporting growth and innovation for SPC GBU in Japan • Leads GBU governance and strategic agenda • Drives transversal projects with the Leadership Team • Shapes and drives Business Development projects to support Sanofi Japan 2030 roadmap, enhance portfolio and footprint and ramp up business • Manages selected strategic partnerships, in close alignment with the GM and Global wherever necessary. Go To Market local lead • Partners with commercial and marketing decision makers and provides analytics expertise to contribute to integrated launch roadmap to achieve launch success, at Global, GBUs and country levels. Develops and leverages data driven insights to support robust launch forecast and roadmap and to measure launch success. Provides project management expertise and proposes best in class methodologies and tools to support the design, execution and tracking of launch plans. • Has demonstrated advanced proficiency on all competencies and is considered as an expert on support to launch plan design, insights generation and support to the launch execution.   Lean Design, Training & Capabilities Assessment • Designs & sustains adequate governance for performance management. • Orchestrates target setting and consistent strategy cascading across the organization. • Identifies relevant KPIs. • Designs performance scorecards. • Identifies & orchestrates relevant approaches for internal / external performance benchmarking. • Crunches and / or analyses benchmark data to inform the construction of performance plans by sites / IA platforms / departments or functions.   Management of operational standards and Continuous Improvement • Owns a given business process or methodology standard. • Designs and / or optimizes standard(s). • Orchestrates the deployment of standards with discipline. • Develops awareness and adoption of standards. • Tracks metrics for standard coverage & adoption.   Management of performance and transformation • Defines and drives performance at program level. • Designs & sustains adequate governance for performance management. • Identifies & coordinates platform / function-specific initiatives driving the performance. • Implement the predefined set of KPI for program result measurement and impact. • Enriches where adequate on program. • Identifies and orchestrates relevant approaches for internal / external performance benchmarking. • Monitors actual progress made vs targets and issues alerts / recommendation for corrective action plans. • Develops strategy & content, orchestrates deployment through a community / site, cluster population. • Sets ambition for a given transformation program on site level. • Designs and plans the transformation and develop a detailed action plan. • Drives the implementation of transformative initiatives, including digital and data driven, to achieve demanding business targets. • Provides adequate trainings and coaching to local team to ensure sustainability of implemented changes • Follows up on the meeting outcomes and action items • Provides timely market information to local and teams to support fact-based decision-making • Represents company’s interests in Japan and ensures high compliance with Sanofi SOPs and local legislation and transversal coordination with other Sanofi GBUs • Leads, coordinates or supports projects and initiatives for business growth and delivering on priorities within GBU and as One Sanofi • Initiates projects to accelerate