Business Operations Lead, Turkey

Posted:
8/1/2024, 5:00:00 PM

Location(s):
Istanbul, Turkey ⋅ Beşiktaş, Istanbul, Turkey

Experience Level(s):
Senior

Field(s):
Business & Strategy

Viatris İlaçları Ltd. Şti

At VIATRIS, we see healthcare not as it is but as it should be. We act courageously and are uniquely positioned to be a source of stability in a world of evolving healthcare needs.

Viatris empowers people worldwide to live healthier at every stage of life.

We do so via: 

Access – Providing high quality trusted medicines regardless of geography or circumstance;
Leadership – Advancing sustainable operations and innovative solutions to improve patient health; and 
Partnership – Leveraging our collective expertise to connect people to products and services. 
 

Our global portfolio includes best-in-class, iconic brand-name products as well as global key brands; generics, including branded and complex generics; and other offerings across a wide range of therapeutic areas. We are committed to helping create healthier communities worldwide through education, outreach and better access to treatment.

For those driven to live their lives with purpose, Viatris helps employees realise their full potential by creating a collaborative culture that fosters courage and resilience. Viatris is more than just a place to work. This is a place to make a difference in the world.

The Role & What You Will Be Doing

As Business Operations Lead, you will be one of the key leaders in Commercial Operations Department and expected to lead various projects within the Viatris Turkey organization to ensure best-in-class execution of business strategies and find new ways to optimize operations. You will take lead and partner up with internal stakeholders to assure continuity of business processes. You will be collaborating with all internal functions and manage external parties that are related to your business goals.

Every day, we rise to the challenge to make a difference and here’s how the Business Operations Lead role will make an impact:

  • Ensure best-in-class execution of business strategy in alignment with relevant internal functions

  • Lead and project manage key business initiatives to drive business results

  • Provides targeted support, solutions and execution discipline through market-based approaches/ interactions, optimizing across markets and portfolios, ensuring commercial execution, priority for market opportunities across key channels

  • Monitor market related and financial reports to provide insights and updates

  • Supports the development and implementation of commercial strategies

  • Partners with internal & external stakeholders to lead 3rd party BD deals in order to unlock further opportunities for Viatris business

  • Partners and provide guidance into operating plans, LE submissions

  • Leads & provides governance on processes like S&OP, High noon, LT meetings

  • Partners with market LT to define priorities and to identify of new business opportunities that could originate to internal projects

About Your Skills & Experience

For this role, we’re looking for a candidate who has an effective combination of the following qualifications, skills and experiences:

Key Functional Competencies

  • Bachelor’s degree in industrial engineering, economics, business administrations or equivalent degree is required

  • MBA or equivalent education/experience is preferred

  • Business acumen and analytical ability

  • Project and Time Management

  • Strategic & Innovative Thinking

  • Change management and organizational development

  • Strong communication and influencing skills

  • Exceptional communication skills in English

Work Experience & Key Accomplishments

  • Minimum of 7-10 years of working experience with broad knowledge and experience of healthcare and pharmaceutical environment

  • Proven success in commercial management

  • Experience in managing and monitoring operating plans

  • Confidence and experience to lead change with strong interpersonal, communication and networking skill

  • Ability to bring structure and process to uncertain situations plus strong project management skills

  • Excellent track record as a team player and ability to lead in a matrixed environment

  • Proven ability to facilitate open discussion and debate among key stakeholders and building internal and external relationships through partnering & anticipating needs

  • Entrepreneurial mindset with the ability to create a compelling business case based on structured analysis across multiple factors

  • Robust understanding of manufacturing/supply & finance matters and information systems

  • Strong problem solving and stakeholder management skills with conflict resolution and strong negotiation skills to achieve win-win resolution

Key Leadership Behavioural Competencies

  • Lead and influence change needed to maximize business outcomes

  • Challenge yourself and others to continuously find cost efficient ways to grow our business

  • Demonstrate forward thinking by assessing issues and opportunities to generate value

  • Create bias for action by being decisive and responsive to the changing environment

  • Push yourself and others out of the comfort zone with humility

  • Demonstrate critical thinking & sound judgment when recommending changes in strategy or execution

  • Develop in-depth understanding of our business value chain, and how we make a difference for customers and patients

  • Ensure robust yet simplified ways of working by removing obstacles

  • Ability to manage complexity

At Viatris, we are dedicated to building a truly diverse, inclusive and authentic workplace, so if you’re excited about this role but your past experience doesn’t fully align with every requirement, we still encourage you to apply. You may just be the right candidate for this or other roles.

Benefits at Viatris

At Viatris, we offer competitive salaries, benefits and an inclusive environment where you can use your experiences, perspectives and skills to help make an impact on the lives of others. Some of our benefits include the following on top of a competitive salary:

  • Excellent career progression opportunities

  • Work-life balance initiatives

  • Bonus scheme

  • Health insurance

  • Pension

Diversity & Inclusion at Viatris

At Viatris, diversity and inclusion are essential to our mission. The diversity we foster in all aspects of our business can be one of our greatest strengths in redefining healthcare not as it is, but as it should be. If you would like to know more about what diversity, equity and inclusion means to us, please visit https://www.viatris.com/en/Careers/Diversity-and-Inclusion

Sustainability at Viatris

Corporate social responsibility is fundamental to the Viatris mission. We work to advance responsible and sustainable operations and leverage our collective expertise to empower people to live healthier at every stage of life, recognizing that our actions affect the stakeholders and communities we serve. To learn more about our efforts, please visit https://www.viatris.com/en/about-us/corporate-responsibility

At Viatris, we offer competitive salaries, benefits and an inclusive environment where you can use your experiences, perspectives and skills to help make an impact on the lives of others. 

Viatris is an Equal Opportunity Employer.