Head of Commercial at Aspen Pharma Group

Overview

• Drive cost optimisation and customer satisfaction by identifying and implementing opportunities for new business, optimising existing contracts, and constantly looking for cost opportunity while maximising supply reliability.
• Lead and drive outputs of the following units: Business Development, Procurement, Customer Account Management and New Product Launches.
• Lead the Outsource and 3rd party departments to ensure continued supply of Outsource and 3rd party products according to market/ customer demand.

Requirements

Background/experience

• 10 years’ related experience with strong business development, procurement & finance experience in manufacturing
• Minimum of Bachelor’s degree preferred, ideally in Commerce or Engineering

Specific job skills

• Extensive procurement, financial & NBD knowledge with insight into pharmaceutical manufacturing
• Working knowledge of commercial contracting & pharmaceutical standards/ compliance
• People and departmental management

Competencies

• Translating Strategy
• Making Decisions; Offering Insights
• Customer Awareness
• Managing Performance
• Investigating Possibilities

Accountability & Decision Rights

• Strategy implementation for Business Development, Procurement, CRM and New Product Launches
• Manage financial and people resources for function across SA
• Contract and project related strategies, profitability & implementation

 Independent decisions relating to:

• Intra-functional and intra-departmental coordination, development and implementation of strategic plans and business outcomes
• Development and implementation of policies and broad operational objectives, based on executive strategy
• Techniques and evaluation criteria for projects, programmes and people