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About the Role

This role is part of the Asia Pacific Procurement leadership team, leading the Japan Commercial Procurement team. The position focuses on defining and delivering priorities and local projects by leveraging regional and global scale. It also involves acting as a representative in local markets to ensure local needs are communicated to regional/global teams and maintaining strong relationships with the CFO, Country leadership, and business stakeholders. The role ensures effective coordination between local, regional, and global procurement teams.

Responsibilities

Accountable for developing a strategic approach to corporate procurement and management of indirect goods and services to drive business centricity.
Proactively lead and manage priorities such as collaboration with suppliers on Sustainability activities, Global Finance initiative implementation, and risk control to achieve sustainable business.
Embed excellence in category management, including sourcing, cost/contract management, supplier collaboration, and innovation.
Generate financial value in the Japan market through cost savings and cash generation.
Accountable for supply assurance, risk, and governance within the portfolio.
Lead, coach, and develop the ONEProcurement team in Japan, managing direct reports' performance.
Proactively identify opportunities to enhance effectiveness and uplift the Japan team's capabilities.
Develop strategic plans for focus categories based on local business needs and demand.
Ensure Category Strategies align with current and future business needs, and the supply base can support these strategies.
Deliver tangible value in sourcing, cost management, supplier relationship management, supplier development, and innovation.
Manage governance through business partnering, ensuring commercial decisions align with overall business strategy.
Conduct annual peer reviews of category, region, or market strategies with the Procurement Leadership Team.
Manage highest standards of compliance and ethics across AstraZeneca, including end-to-end processes and policy governance.
Lead the Sustainability Scope3 supplier engagement program locally, both externally and internally, towards the 2030 Ambition Zero Carbon goal.

Requirements

Leadership experience to lead and drive business.
Strategic thinking and implementation skills.
Experience in people management.
Proven ability in agility for changes and change management.
Procurement working experience.
Proven interpersonal skills.
Business English proficiency for dealing with global counterparts.
Experience with Sustainability as a key initiative for scope 3 supplier engagement.
Entrepreneurship.
Positive attitude towards reasonable risk-taking.
Clear vision and passion to resolve issues and challenge new business models and innovation.
Proactive leadership in managing priorities for supplier collaboration to achieve goals.
Engagement skills with both internal and external parties, including direction and vision setting, and communication.
Ability to execute globally aligned plans and locally developed commitments with excellence.
Initiative to influence global strategies by identifying what worked and what did not.
Learning capability and agility in new contexts, with the ability to develop actions towards identified opportunities.
Organization design/change management experience (nice to have).
Understanding of multiple aspects of the procurement process (nice to have).
Cross-industry and cross-category experience (nice to have).
Communication and interpersonal skills, including oral & written.
Ability to influence others without authority.
Demonstrated capacity to effectively manage multiple and frequently changing priorities.
Smart risk-taking with a governance/compliance mindset.
Understanding/knowledge of the Pharmaceutical business and AZ products (nice to have).
Fluent Japanese (verbal and written).
Business Level English (verbal and written).
Good cultural awareness and exposure to global working (nice to have).

Skills

Leadership
Strategic thinking
Change management
Procurement
Interpersonal skills
Business English
Sustainability
Entrepreneurship
Risk-taking
Vision setting
Communication
Storytelling
Execution
Influence
Learning agility
Organization design
Change management
Procurement process understanding
Cross-industry experience
Cross-category experience
Oral communication
Written communication
Influencing without authority
Priority management
Risk management
Governance
Compliance
Pharmaceutical business knowledge
AZ products knowledge
Cultural awareness

Location

Osaka
Tokyo

Work Type

Full-time

Experience Level

About the Company

AstraZeneca embraces diversity and equality of opportunity.
We are committed to building an inclusive and diverse team representing all backgrounds, with as wide a range of perspectives as possible, and harnessing industry-leading skills.
We believe that the more inclusive we are, the better our work will be.
We welcome and consider applications to join our team from all qualified candidates, regardless of their characteristics.
We comply with all applicable laws and regulations on non-discrimination in employment (and recruitment), as well as work authorization and employment eligibility verification requirements.

Equal Opportunity

AstraZeneca embraces diversity and equality of opportunity.
We are committed to building an inclusive and diverse team representing all backgrounds, with as wide a range of perspectives as possible, and harnessing industry-leading skills.
We believe that the more inclusive we are, the better our work will be.
We welcome and consider applications to join our team from all qualified candidates, regardless of their characteristics.
We comply with all applicable laws and regulations on non-discrimination in employment (and recruitment), as well as work authorization and employment eligibility verification requirements.