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Chicago, Illinois, United States

South Africa

Strategic guidance to the Commercial Excellence department ensuring strong business partnering with commercial leaders and stakeholders. Support strategy development and drive execution excellence to the highest standard as part of a high-performance culture within the organization.

South Africa

Developed and implemented portfolio strategy for South Africa and Sub-Sahara African region, supporting strategic decision making and driving business performance. A core deliverable was to guide the brand PVA TA leads, ensuring a focus on the patient journey, identifying gaps, and coordinating with the cross-functional team in addressing unmet needs.

City Of Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa

Working in close collaboration with cross-functional team members, leading the engagement of stakeholders and payors to identify and develop innovative access models aimed at broadening access to Takeda’s innovative life-changing treatments while ensuring proposals are aligned with local laws and internal guidance.

Johannesburg Area, South Africa

Driving key business insights and accountability mechanisms, ensuring that business operations are delivered to plan by orchestrating our project portfolio against the business roadmap. As a team, Business Operations aimed to drive efficiency and effectiveness of customer interactions by leading the development and execution of Customer Facing Excellence, business insights & analytics, business development and launch excellence, sales training and development, internal communications, key… Show more Driving key business insights and accountability mechanisms, ensuring that business operations are delivered to plan by orchestrating our project portfolio against the business roadmap. As a team, Business Operations aimed to drive efficiency and effectiveness of customer interactions by leading the development and execution of Customer Facing Excellence, business insights & analytics, business development and launch excellence, sales training and development, internal communications, key projects as well as strategic alliances management. Show less

South Africa

Supporting Country Lead during early start-up phase of being established as Local Operating Company in the country. I took responsibility for customer facing excellence, commercial operations, portfolio expansion planning and managing third party distributers. Implementing structures and processes which governed the organisation operationally. This role required agility in order to take on complex challenges and tasks in various domains as well as an ability to mobilise both internal and… Show more Supporting Country Lead during early start-up phase of being established as Local Operating Company in the country. I took responsibility for customer facing excellence, commercial operations, portfolio expansion planning and managing third party distributers. Implementing structures and processes which governed the organisation operationally. This role required agility in order to take on complex challenges and tasks in various domains as well as an ability to mobilise both internal and external stakeholders in order to deliver on projects. Show less

Johannesburg Area, South Africa

Overseeing the understanding, interpretation, and internalization of all Sales Force Key Performance Indicator concepts throughout the organization to maximize productivity and performance of the resources at hand. Determining the appropriate sales force size and setup with the aim of optimizing design with recommended improvements to the commercial organization.

Johannesburg Area, South Africa

Lead and oversee the strategic management of the Oncology Solid Tumour Business Unit product portfolio and multiple pipeline products in launch readiness phase. Ensure all commercial and operational effectiveness measures were in place in order to deliver on our set business objectives by utilising and deploying resources optimally.

Lead department with cross-functional expertise to provide support to the organisation around CRM, Market research and insights, data incorporation and performance tracking within South Africa as well as Sub-Sahara Africa. Our responsibilities expanded and required close partnering with multiple departments such as Finance in order to deliver the long term business plans, Marketing during the Annual Marketing Review and Planning processes as well as Supply chain management and Market Access on… Show more Lead department with cross-functional expertise to provide support to the organisation around CRM, Market research and insights, data incorporation and performance tracking within South Africa as well as Sub-Sahara Africa. Our responsibilities expanded and required close partnering with multiple departments such as Finance in order to deliver the long term business plans, Marketing during the Annual Marketing Review and Planning processes as well as Supply chain management and Market Access on logistical services and pricing matters respectively. Show less

South Africa

In this role my primary responsibility revolved around the recognition and reward system for the sales force, determining regional potentials as well as tracking and reporting on the performance, not only of the field force but also the greater business.

I lead the Haematology Oncology sales team ensuring that all sales effectiveness measures were in place in order to deliver on the set business objectives for the porfolio. As part of the product matrix team I successfully contributed to providing insight into the market trends which allowed the formulation of successful strategies ensuring sustained business success.