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$62k – $134k per year (Estimated)
Location
In office (Osaka, Tokyo)
Seniority
Architect
Employment
Full-Time
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AstraZeneca is a British-Swedish pharmaceutical company formed in 1999 by the merger of Astra of Sweden and Zeneca of the United Kingdom, and now one of the largest drug makers in the world by revenue. Its portfolio is concentrated in oncology with Tagrisso, Imfinzi and Enhertu, alongside cardiovascular, renal and metabolic products including Farxiga, respiratory and immunology medicines, and a rare disease business built on the acquisition of Alexion. Headquartered in Cambridge in England and listed in London, Stockholm and New York, it reports in United States dollars.
  • 職務内容 / Job Description

The role sits on the Asia Pacific Procurement leadership team and will lead country management for Japan Commercial Procurement team.

The role will work to define and deliver on Priorities and Local Projects leveraging regional and global scale and opportunities.

The role will proactively work as representative at local market focus areas so that local demand, requirement, and local voices are heard by regional/global team for further enhancement of collaboration and treatment.

The role ensures strong and collaborative relationships built and maintained with CFO and Country leadership team as well as relevant Business stakeholders.

The role will ensure proper coordination between Procurement teams in Local and Asia Pacific Region; and Global when required.

  • 主な職務範囲 / Typical Accountabilities
  • Accountable for developing a strategic approach to the corporate procurement and management process for 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 at local market, risk control etc. in order to achieve sustainable business • Embed excellence in category management including sourcing, cost/contract management, supplier collaboration and innovation, supplier relationship management. • Generate financial value in Japan market, including cost savings and cash generation. • Accountable for supply assurance, risk and governance within portfolio. • Leads, Coaches and develops ONEProcurement team resource through direct/indirect reports in Japan. Manage all direct reports performance. • Proactively identify opportunities in order to promote effectiveness and uplift Japan team capability and capacities. • Develop strategic plans for focus categories (spend) based on local business needs and demand. • Ensures Category Strategies are aligned with current and future Business need, and; supply base is capable of supporting these strategies • Deliver tangible value within sourcing, cost management, supplier relationship management, supplier development and innovation. • Manage governance via business partnering and make sure commercial decisions are aligned with overall business strategy and stakeholders • Conduct annual peer reviews of category, region or market strategies with the Procurement Leadership Team. • Manage higheststandards of compliance and ethics consistently across AZ (including end to end process/source to pay and policy governance) • Lead Sustainability Scope3 supplier engagement program in local both external (supplier/supply chain/pharma industry committee etc.)and internal (for employee engagement) towards 2030 Ambition Zero Caron.
  • 応募資格(経験、資格等) / Qualification (Experience & Skill etc.)

経験 / Experience

<必須 / Mandatory>

  • Leadership; lead and drive business
  • Strategic thinking and implementation
  • Experience of people management
  • Proven ability on agility for changes and change management
  • Procurement working experience
  • Proven Interpersonal skill
  • Business English (including dealing with global counterparts) Sustainability as key initiative for scope 3 supplier engagement
  • Entrepreneurship

・ Being positive on reasonable risk taking

・ Has clear vision and passion to resolve issue and challenge new business model, innovation

・ Proactively lead and manage priorities on collaboration with suppliers to achieve goals

・ Engagement skill (proven interpersonal skill) with both internal and external parties (beyond industries) including direction and vision setting, communication (structured story telling), so that both parties are empowered to achieve common goals towards 2030 Ambition Zero Carbon.

・ Execute with excellence on globally aligned plan and the one locally developed/committed.

・ If following global target would not be enough to accelerate an ambition target; take initiative to influence back to global by identifying what worked and not worked.

・ Learning capability and agility on new context, learn first, quickly identify opportunities, and; develop action towards them.

<歓迎 / Nice to have>

  • Organization design/change management experience
  • Understanding of multiple aspects of procurement process
  • Cross-industry and cross-category experience

能力 / Skill-set

<必須 / Mandatory>

  • 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 governance/compliance mind set

<歓迎 / Nice to have>

  • Understanding/knowledge of the Pharmaceutical business and AZ products

語学 / Language

<必須 / Mandatory>

日本語 Japanese:Fluent Level (verbal and written)

英語 English:Business Level (verbal and written)

その他 / Others

<歓迎 / Nice to have>

  • Good cultural awareness, exposure to global working

キャリアレベル / Career Level

F

勤務地 / Work Location

Osaka or Tokyo

Date Posted

21-7月-2026

Closing Date

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.

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