Title: Manager Business DevManager Business Development Operations
Kuala Lumpur, MY, MY
Job Summary
The Manager, Business Development Operations plays a critical role in enabling strategic growth across the BD funnel—from origination to execution. This role demands agility, analytical depth, and commercial acumen to support BD Directors and cross-functional teams across multiple markets.
Key responsibilities include leading market analysis to uncover growth opportunities, conducting competitor benchmarking to inform strategic positioning, and preparing commercial partnership briefs that support decision-making. A strong understanding of the pharmaceutical landscape—including therapeutic areas, regulatory frameworks, pricing strategies, and distribution channels—is essential to drive impactful business development outcomes.
General Responsibilities
- Strategic Market Analysis: Conduct in-depth market assessments to identify trends, opportunities, and risks across therapeutic areas and geographies.
- Competitor Benchmarking: Analyze competitor strategies, performance, and positioning to inform BD origination and execution.
- Commercial Partnership Briefs: Develop concise, insight-driven briefs to support partnership discussions and strategic alignment.
- BD Metrics Management: Oversee BD performance metrics, both leading and lagging, to monitor the success of business origination and execution.
- Data-Driven Insights: Leverage analytics tools to structure and visualize data, generating actionable insights for BD decision-making.
- BD Funnel Support: Provide end-to-end support across the BD lifecycle, including origination, pitch development (presentation deck), and execution.
- Proposal Project Management: Oversee due diligence (DD), Request for Proposal (RFP), review and completion. Adapt proposals based on client feedback to optimize success rates.
- Cross-Functional Collaboration: Serve as the key interface between BD Ops, Country BD teams, and cross-functional stakeholders to drive aligned, consistent execution. Partner with Commercial, Medical, Regulatory, Supply Chain, and Finance teams to ensure seamless execution and alignment.
- Ad-Hoc Analytical and Project Support: Provide targeted support on specific tasks such as market analysis, competitor benchmarking, commercial partnership briefs, and other business-critical deliverables as required.
Functional Skills and Knowledge
- Pharma Landscape Expertise - Apply deep knowledge of the pharmaceutical industry to guide BD strategy, including pricing, tendering, and market access dynamics.
- Strong capabilities in market analysis and data interpretation, with the ability to generate actionable insights to support business development.
- Advanced proficiency in Excel and analytics tools to structure, model, and visualize data effectively.
- Good knowledge of marketing and sales fundamentals, and how they drive growth in a typical pharma commercial environment.
- Familiarity with Commercial Excellence, Sales Force Effectiveness (SFE), and Medical Affairs, and how these functions contribute to overall business performance.
- Ability to connect cross-functional perspectives (sales, marketing, medical, regulatory, supply chain) to provide holistic BD recommendations.
- Exposure to brand and product management, including pricing strategies, tender processes, and engagement across Healthcare Professional, hospital, and retail/distribution channels.
- Experience working with or through distributors is a strong advantage.
Education
- Minimum 5-7 years of professional experience in the pharmaceutical, healthcare, or related industry.
- Minimum of a Bachelor’s Degree in Business, Life Sciences, Pharmacy, Engineering, or a related field. A Master’s Degree (MBA or equivalent) in a related discipline would be preferred
- Prior experience in a sales, marketing, or finance role within a pharmaceutical company is required.
- Exposure to business development, commercial operations, or alliance management is an advantage.
- Experience collaborating across functions and/or markets to deliver on commercial objectives.
- Proven track record of working with data and financial metrics to support decision-making.