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Primary Responsibilities:
- Develops, implements and monitors the annual strategy, and financial and operating plans for our brand and generic partnerships and Sanis
- Responsible for the strategic management of the annual multi- and common-year planning process for the pharmaceutical portfolio across the enterprise
- Establishes and sustains programs and relationships across the enterprise to ensure our brand and generic programs are meeting the needs of patients and pharmacists
- Manage all aspects of the Sanis private label business unit including product selection, supply chain management, market access, and QA/RA
- Manage the wholesale distribution function for pharmaceuticals across the enterprise including the management of secondary supplier agreements
- Responsible for managing the quality and regulatory team overseeing the enterprise pharmaceutical supply chain and the adjacent Healthcare Businesses to ensure we meet or exceed Health Canada requirements
- Work closely with the Operations team to ensure we are supporting stores in the management of the generic and brand portfolio
- Establishes, tracks and hold individuals in the organization accountable for delivering financial performance, including sales, new launches, industry performance. Identifies and develops talent that can deliver best practices.
- Manages negotiations on sensitive issues related to pricing and distribution of all pharmaceuticals across the SDM and Loblaw retail pharmacy network
- Works closely with Finance and Legal to manage overall pharmaceutical portfolio and contracts
- Monitors market intelligence in order to predict market demands and identify risks and opportunities.
- Guides the development and implementation of processes and standards to ensure integration of data collection, analysis, communication and reporting is accurate.
- Oversees workloads and provides staff supervision to ensure that work is done accurately, efficiently and complies with policies, procedures and standards as well as best working practices.
- Provides guidance, motivation, and performance review including hiring and terminating employees, to maintain and enhance competency levels, identify future training requirements and achieve goals to increase performance. Builds a team of employees that has corporate culture of process, metrics, improvement and clinical production with total customer focus.
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- Requires broad based knowledge of the corporation and its strategy and a thorough understanding of the goals and needs of a strategic group(s).
- Leads a strategic, integrated group through developing the corporation's overall direction and defining the groups purpose.
- Requires extensive knowledge and skill in multiple disciplines to be able to integrate them effectively and a capacity to understand and interpret conflicting goals and needs of diverse groups.
- Organizes a diverse function or integrated units by developing plans and setting directions.
- Extensive senior level negotiation experience and skills required to manage in a highly competitive and /of adversarial circumstances where extensive skills in negotiation or high levels of diplomacy are needed.
- Ability to work closely with senior executives of international companies to support Sanis contracts
- Develops new techniques and innovative approaches to further continuous improvements.
- Decisions are highly complex in nature involving multiple elements, factors and interests to develop new models and processes to meet future needs within a framework of corporate policy, general direction, multiple needs and legislated compliance.
- Adaptable to set and prioritize work with multiple exceptions. Able to work with diverse personalities and styles.
- Communicates with clarity, verbally and in one on one or group situations, or over the telephone.
- Communicates well in writing by composing clear documents; facility with editing and/or proof-reading is required.
- Computer skills to create and interpret reports, documents, spreadsheets and presentations.
- Business acumen - advanced knowledge of retail operations, marketing, business administration and relationship management principles and practices. Sound knowledge of rehabilitation operational needs.
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