Apac Capability Development Director

Responsible for leading the APAC Capability Development Centre of Excellence (CoE) to ensure the APAC JJIM organisation identifies, monitors, and builds capabilities that are required to execute our commercial strategy and makes us competitive in the short and long-term.

This is achieved through direct leadership of the Capability Development CoE (incl. direct report), close engagement with Capability leads across the markets and strong partnerships with the wider CE team and key in-market stakeholders to influence and improve the way we operate in the future. Tasked with the role of improving our commercial capabilities, this position will have a significant opportunity to directly drive enterprise growth and efficiency.

*Please note that the role will require 20% travel due to the regional portfolio.*

**Key Responsibilities**

The APAC Capability Director leads the capability development strategy process and is accountable for the planning and flawless execution of capability development activities that drive our competitiveness aligned with business priorities. This includes the design and deployment of new capability development approaches that strengthen our commercial execution in areas such as sales & marketing, customer & patient experience, data science and new ways of working such as agile.

1. **Strategy development, execution and iteration **- develops an execution plan to build strategic capabilities and create a learning culture, that recognises our constant evolution to the changing external environment and aligns with APACs commercial strategy. Manages the annual process for identifying capabilities that will drive competitiveness across the APAC region and supports the local markets in recognising and prioritising new capabilities.

2. **Content development and facilitation of training **- partner with global, local and external partners where needed to build internal competences aligned with strategy. Innovates digital learning options within the region.

3. **Adoption roadmap and measure impact - **set clear adoption roadmap and support COE’s in embedding new capabilities within the wider organisation. Establishes a goal setting and measurement process to track capability building impact on employee development and business results.

4. **Collaboration **- partner and collaborate with teams across the organisation who build capabilities, to ensure all of our capability development is connected and purposeful.

5. **Thought Leadership **- bring external trends and insights around evolving customer engagement models and skills of the future into the organisation.

6. **Change Leadership **- inspire our people to embrace change, and equip them with the tools and resources to build new skills and ways of working.

7. **People Leadership **- manages the APAC Capability Development - Associate Director (direct report) and collaborates with Capability Leads across markets. Empowers team members to execute and champion their careers and development.

8. **Leadership Engagement - **Communicate a clear and compelling narrative to gain leadership buy-in, align organizational needs and strategic priorities, quantify impact, build relationships and address concerns productively.

9. **Influence stakeholders beyond APAC - **Learn and co-ordinate with global and cross-regional initiatives and influence relevant teams within JJIM for faster acceleration with focus on APAC.

**Qualifications**:
**Skills & Competencies**
- **Integrated Planning**:Ability to connect the dots to develop cohesive aligned plans, built on insight, reflecting a deep understanding of the opportunity, target market and commercial realities.
- **Influencing & Stakeholder Management**:Ability to influence, drive decisions and outcomes across multiple levels of the organisation. Ability to lead and build high performing cross-functional teams.
- **Project and Change Management**:Understanding and managing sequences of key project activities to effectively deliver value, collaborating cross-functionally and developing and helping deploy change management strategies.
- **Communication Skills**: Excellent verbal, written, visual and facilitation communication skills.

**Experience or qualifications that are critical to this position.**
- Experience leading complex enterprise projects.
- Experience leading a team and engaging senior stakeholders.
- Experiences in areas like leadership/ organizational development, strategy consulting, or a business role with the focus on having successfully executed capability building efforts within a market and across a region.
- Previous Learning & Development experience in a local operating company is a prerequisite including successful development and execution of skill building programs for local field force and Marketing teams.
- Experience in Pharmaceutical marketing environment is required including a proven track record to contribute to the development progress of brand teams.
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