Chief of Staff

1 week ago

Port Elizabeth, South Africa Aspen Pharma Group Full time

**Job purpose**:

- High-visibility strategic partner that collaborates and supports the Executive General Manager: SA Operations with effective decision making, programme management and the execution of the business strategy and objectives.
- The CoS acts as a trusted advisor and manager, helping to ensure that the organization's goals are achieved by overseeing the execution of key short term strategic projects in support of business objectives

**Responsibilities**:
**Operations performance**
- Tracks business performance against key strategic short-, medium
- and long-term objectives.
- Compiles performance reports for internal and external executive business review.
- Work with the Executive in an advisory capacity regarding overall themes, opportunities, and challenges that arise for the business.
- Leads the strategic business planning process including capability and initiatives to realize the business vision and aspirations.
- Oversees strategic business initiatives (including but not limited to the strategic site master plan and the financial and operational plan) from development through to successful execution under the guidance of senior leadership.
- Builds and develops relationships with the senior leadership team for increased efficiency and effective responsiveness into existing operations, and helps to define new operational strategies, working with the executive on special projects.

**Internal stakeholder management**
- Acts as liaison between key internal stakeholders and the Executive/Senior leadership team.
- Co-ordinates reporting of stakeholder engagements and the dissemination of reports.
- Tracks key actions to ensure accurate and timely execution and resolution.
- Perform financial and human resources functions to ensure optimal management of function and reporting units and their leaders.
- Manage collaboration and coordination between reporting units.

**External stakeholder management**
- Acts as the liaison between key external stakeholders and the Executive/senior leadership team
- Co-ordinates reporting needs of stakeholders and stakeholder engagements and the dissemination of reports.
- Tracks key actions to ensure accurate and timely execution and resolution.

**Business performance**
- Tracks and reviews key short-, medium
- and long-term business metrics.
- Advises on and initiates corrective actions to address key business metrics that are at risk of being off target.

**Skills Required**:
**Background/experience**
- Minimum of Bachelor’s degree in Business, Commerce or equivalent
- Post-graduate qualification or MBA is advantageous.
- 10-15 years’ Commercial and Manufacturing, or related industry experience
- Experience in leading and advising initiatives on a strategic production site (ideally in a pharmaceutical environment)
- Management of key business initiatives
- Project and Programme Management
- Proven leadership capability and managerial experience at a senior level
- In-depth insight into commercial, manufacturing and/or operations
- People and departmental management

**Competencies**
- Translating Strategy
- Interpreting and Internalizing Information
- Offering Insights
- Making Decisions
- Managing Performance
- Customer Awareness

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