Cloud Advisory Lead

Position            Cloud Advisory Lead

Salary               Negotiable

Location           Tokyo, 23 Wards (other locations available)

Company

Our client is a global Pharmaceutical, Biopharmaceutical enterprise that focuses on discovery, development and commercialization of prescription medicines. Operating in over 100 countries, they innovative medicines that are used by millions of patients worldwide.

Summary

Deliver company Cloud Platforms and Digital Solutions as part of the (CPDS) team, both public and private Cloud services to internal customers. Services range from Cloud Advisory, Automation, Architecture through to Delivery. Within CPDS, the Cloud Advisory team provides customer interface to internal and external Cloud services.

Cloud Advisory team functions:

• Promote CPDS services and solutions
• Identify and forecast demand for existing and new CPDS services
• Define the customer need and business cases for change activities
• Prioritise and drive the development of new Cloud services
• Provide internal Cloud cost optimisation and management services to get full value from on premise and public cloud investments

Report to the Head of Cloud Advisory, the Cloud Advisory Lead is a key role within the team focussed on working with internal Business IT teams to get the best value from Cloud services portfolio, identifying and delivering new services and providing solutions to meet customer needs.

Responsibilities:

• Engagement and Partner Management
• Demand capture and triage, requirements definition and business case development
• Communication of product roadmaps and new services
• Demand forecasting
• Delivery of new services to the Customer
• Ensuring the customer’s Cloud footprint is efficiently used and sized

• Engaging Business Area(s) / Regions and associated IT partners in-order to understand and anticipate current and future requirements.
• Providing status of the delivery of new services and managing partners to ensure robust demand management processes and the right investment decisions are made
• Ensure all key partners are aware of the portfolio of services and associated development roadmaps.
• Demonstrate a high focus on the customer’s requirements and has the energy and resilience to deliver in a fast paced and dynamic environment.
• Accountable for building an overall forecast of demand and ensuring that this is delivered to exceed expectations.
• Plays an active role in the prioritisation and governance of new service development, representing their customer’s needs and balancing with the needs of the Enterprise.
• Drives optimisation of the infrastructure estate.
• Works with customers and GIS teams to make sure hosting platforms and services are current, right sized and efficient.
• Tracks's service usage, understanding the service value proposition, managing the service life cycle for the customer

Experience

• Experience of planning and managing budgets.
• Experience working in a complex, multinational environment, witha broad understanding of private and public cloud hosting services and associated commercials and costs.
• Foundation-level knowledge of Cloud (AWS, Azure & GCP), Virtualisation (VMWare & Openstack), Containers, Storage, Backup, Middleware, Databases, Identity&Access Mgmt. and Network
• Knowledge of Sysops and DevOps Operating Models

• Ability to influence partners at multiple levels and define and communicate requirements
• Ability to form effective partnerships with internal and external partners and to gain commitment to deliver against targets.
• Strong analytical skills and experience of related toolsets, with the ability to present clear information related to status and issues based on analysis and extraction of performance data from multiple sources.
• Detailed understanding of the project delivery methodologies.
• Vendor and contract management skills.
• Ability to make decisions in pressure situations at a management level
• An ability to work effectively in a matrix organization is critical
• Ability to collaborate across the different technology services
• Japanese Language: Native or equivalent (N1)
• English Language: Business level proficiency

R&I BU:
Asthma & COPD: Symbicort, Fasenra, Breztri, Bevespi
Immunology:  Synagis, Saphnelo, tezepelumab

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