Country Manager - Myanmar and Cambodia

PRIMARY OBJECTIVE:

Lead the commercial activities for ANI Myanmar & Cambodia, including the development and implementation of business plans that align with the overall Division’s strategy and meet both financial and non-financial objectives.

EDUCATION/QUALIFICATIONS/EXPERIENCE:

• Bachelors Degree in related filed
• 10+ years of relevant commercial experience with at least 5 years at management level
• Prior experience within nutrition or healthcare industries preferred
• Proven people management experience, preferably with building, leading, coaching, and motivating a sales team and leading distributors.
• Experience within Southeast Asia markets
• Experience working for large, multinational companies.
• Speak and write fluent English
• Analytical, energetic & strive in a highly result-oriented environment.

CORE JOB RESPONSIBILITIES

• Develop and execute compliant sustainable growth strategy for Abbott Nutrition International (ANI) businesses in Myanmar and Cambodia under an appropriate operating model including distribution structure and partnerships Delivers on the financial objectives for ANI Myanmar and Cambodia; Holds profit and loss responsibility.
• Works with the distributor to create a good working environment with focus on acquiring, developing and retaining top talent working for the distributor on behalf of Abbott
• Ensure that all business activities for both ANI and partners (e.g. distributors) are conducted in accordance with Abbott Code of Ethics and local government laws
• Manages and supports the distributor in achieving the business objectives.
• Builds and maintains relationships with decision-makers in the local health care system, government agencies, regulatory bodies, key opinion leaders and community.
• Ensure all Key Accounts are well covered by distributors to achieve sales & marketing objectives.
• Anticipates market trends and implements the necessary changes to meet customer needs.
• Assesses market data, determines, and prioritizes potential market growth opportunities.
• Plan for field activities such as product launches, road shows, product training and symposiums to create product awareness among health professionals and public.
• Implement plans for product demos, evaluation, placement, complaint handlings and training for customers whenever the needs arise.
• Works closely with regional team and local country shared service to implement business processes and execute key business initiatives, ensure local Regulatory and Quality requirements are fulfilled
• Act as Sales and Marketing Coach by spending time with ANI / distributor sales and marketing teams, out in the field and providing feedback on performance gaps.
• Applies and communicates Abbott values in all decisions internally and externally.

FUNCTIONAL COMPETENCIES:

BUILDING PARTNERSHIPS

Identifying opportunities and taking action to build strategic relationships between one’s area and other areas, teams, departments, units, or organizations to help achieve business goals.

Key Actions:

• Analyses the organization and own area to identify key relationships that should be initiated or improved to further the attainment of own area’s goals.
• Exchanges information with potential partner areas to clarify partnership benefits and potential problems; to collaboratively determine the scope and expectations of the partnership so that both areas’ needs can be met.
• Collaboratively determines courses of action to realize mutual goals; facilitates agreement on each partner’s responsibilities and needed support.
• Places higher priority on organization’s goals than on own area’s goals; anticipates effects of own area’s actions and decisions on partners; influences others to support partnership objectives.
• Implements effective means for monitoring and evaluating the partnership process and the attainment of mutual goals.

DECISION MAKING

Identifying and understanding issues, problems, and opportunities; comparing data from different sources to draw conclusions; using effective approaches for choosing a course of action or developing appropriate solutions; taking action that is consistent with available facts, constraints, and probable consequences.

Key Actions:

• Recognizes issues, problems, or opportunities and determines whether action is needed.
• Identifies the need for and collects information to better understanding issues, problems, and opportunities.
• Integrates information from a variety of sources; detects trends, associations, and cause-effect relationships.
• Creates relevant options for addressing problems/opportunities and achieving desired outcomes.
• Formulates clear decision criteria; evaluates options by considering implications and consequences; chooses an effective option.
• Implements decisions or initiates action within a reasonable time.
• Includes others in the decision-making process as warranted to obtain good information, make the most appropriate decisions, and ensure buy-in and understanding of the resulting decisions.

INFORMATION MONITORING

Setting up ongoing procedures for collection and review of information needed to manage an organization or ongoing activities within it.

Key Actions:

• Determines which processes or areas need to be monitored; identifies what information needs to be obtained.
• Establishes systems to monitor activities or outputs that are easy to use and that provide timely and pertinent information.
• Effectively puts in place monitoring systems with minimal interruption for other organizational processes.
• Collects and reviews data on a regular basis to determine progress, anticipate needs, and make necessary adjustments to personnel or processes.

PLANNING AND ORGANISING

Establishing a course of action for self and others to ensure that work is completed efficiently.

Key Actions:

• Identifies more critical and less critical activities and assignments; adjusts priorities when appropriate.
• Determines project/assignment requirements by breaking them down into tasks and identifying types of equipment, materials, and people needed.