ITBP-BBU, China Commercial

JOB PURPOSE

The BBU spans cardiovascular, inhaled respiratory and biologics product lines, reaching patients through one of the deepest channel networks in China: retail pharmacy, community health, broad market and county-level coverage. Growth in this business depends less on product differentiation than on how well thousands of dispersed outlets, distributors and field teams are informed, covered and coordinated.

The role exists to make Commercial IT a genuine partner to the BBU business rather than a service provider. It is accountable to translate BBU strategy (including Medical) into a prioritized IT agenda, for end-to-end follow-through of the programs that carry the domain's business commitments, and for coordinating the multiple internal and external parties on whom delivery depends. The role leads one ITBP and is the single front door for BBU IT demand.

DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITES

1. Strategic alignment and IT agenda for BBU (including Medical)

• Establish and sustain a structured engagement rhythm with the Biologics BU leadership team, contributing to annual business planning and key programme discussions. Translate BU strategic intent — product line priorities, channel emphasis, regional expansion pace — into a prioritized multi-year IT agenda with clear sequencing.
• Own the trade-off conversation when demand exceeds capacity: state clearly what is done, what is deferred and what is not done, and secure business agreement.

2. Programe delivery and follow-through

• Hold overall accountability for progress, quality, risk and interdependencies across all active programmes in the domain. Maintain a single, trusted programme view — milestones, resourcing, risks, dependencies — so business and IT leadership operate from the same facts. Bring options rather than explanations when delay or scope change occurs: defer, descope, or add capacity, with the business consequence of each made explicit. Ensure benefits are defined at approval and measured after go-live; recommend stop or scale decisions on the evidence

3. Medical systems delivery and support

• Own the lifecycle of medical systems in the domain: medical information management, MSL engagement and field medical tools, publication and medical writing platforms, medical review and approval workflows, congress and advisory board logistics. Hold accountability for progress, quality, risk and vendor performance across active workstreams, and maintain one trusted view of status that medical leadership can rely on. Ensure every solution is validated to the standard Medical, Compliance and Pharmacovigilance require before release — and that validation is designed in, not retrofitted.

4. Cross-functional coordination

• Align business stakeholders, internal IT functions and external vendors on a single definition of the goal, scope and acceptance criteria. Surface and resolve cross-team dependency conflicts early; escalate with a recommended resolution, not a problem statement. Act as the single front door for the domain, preventing fragmented demand intake and inconsistent external commitments

JOB REQUIREMENTS & COMPETENCIES

• Bachelor's degree or above, in information systems, computer science, engineering, business or a related discipline.

• A recognized project / programme management qualification (PMP, PRINCE2, MSP or equivalent) is an advantage.
• 12+ years in IT or digital, of which at least 5 years in pharmaceutical or life sciences.
• Omnichannel delivery experience is a firm requirement: retail pharmacy, community health, or broad market / county-level channel digitalization, covering channel data, outlet management, sell-out flow and offtake analysis. Direct experience of engaging business leadership as an equal — able to run strategic conversations with a BU management team independently.
• Working knowledge of how Medical Affairs operates: MSL engagement, medical information, publications, medical review, congress activity and advisory boards.
• Demonstrated programme-level follow-through across multiple parallel workstreams with cross-team and cross-geography dependencies.
• Experience operating in a multinational matrix organization, influencing without line authority.
• Solid knowledge of China pharmaceutical regulation and data privacy requirements applicable to commercial digital solutions. Behaviors: prioritization judgement over throughput; information symmetry by instinct; pragmatic problem solving; willingness to state an unpopular position and to change it on evidence.
• Chinese (Mandarin) — native or equivalent professional fluency, written and spoken. English — professional fluency, written and spoken.
• Able to lead discussions and present to global and area stakeholders

Technical / skill training

• - Channel and field-force technology: SFE, outlet and coverage management, sell-out and sell-in data, distributor and DTP integration.

• - Commercial data and analytics: channel data warehouse, outlet master data, offtake and inventory visibility, territory analytics.

• - Programme and portfolio management; agile and hybrid delivery models;

• - Vendor and contract management.

• - Applied AI and generative AI solutioning in regulated commercial environments.

• - Medical and regulatory systems: medical information management, Veeva Medical / PromoMats, medical review and approval workflows, publication management.

• - Data and analytics: KOL and expert data, insight capture, activity and impact measurement, evidence tracking; data privacy requirements applicable to medical and patient-adjacent data. Applied AI and generative AI in regulated content environments, including evaluation and oversight design.

Desirable ：

• Cardiovascular, inhaled respiratory or biologics therapeutic area experience.
• Direct experience in a Medical Affairs or Medical Information IT role within a multinational pharmaceutical company. Experience with Veeva Medical, PromoMats or a comparable medical content platform.
• County-level or lower-tier market digital delivery at scale — the hardest category to execute well.
• SFE, channel sell-out data, or DTP / retail outlet system experience.
• Experience of a shared platform serving multiple product lines or business units.
• Prior experience as an IT business partner or as a member of a business leadership team

Date Posted

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