Commercial and Planning Manager

Whether it’s innovating in the fields of neuroscience and immunology or delivering high-quality medicine worldwide, we’re dedicated to addressing patients’ needs now and in the future. You'll have the room to grow, the flexibility to balance life with work, and the opportunity to better health worldwide, together.
Director Commercial Excellence & Strategy
Hybrid, 3 days a week on site

Teva Canada is seeking a strategically minded, highly experienced pharmaceutical leader to develop, shape and manage Teva Canada strategy and key priorities, integrating future-fit and alignment with both market dynamics and broader Teva direction.
As a member of the Canadian Leadership Team, the Director serves as a key strategic partner to the General Manager—providing structured insight, shaping priorities, and ensuring alignment across commercial, operations, finance, supply chain, regulatory, and medical functions.
Blending PMO leadership, commercial strategy, and chief of staff responsibilities, the Director establishes a disciplined governance framework that enables transparency, accountability, and timely execution of cross functional strategic initiatives.
Working within a complex multinational matrix, the Director acts as an integrator—synthesizing insights, developing high quality strategic materials, and embedding future focused perspectives.
Lead the planning, execution, and monitoring of Teva Canada’s most critical commercial and operational initiatives.
Serve as a strategic advisor to the General Manager by providing insights, structured thinking, and clear recommendations.
Project & Program Management
Establish and lead a structured PMO framework governing all major cross functional initiatives.
Monitor progress, risks, dependencies, and milestones across multiple complex projects.
Foster transparent, efficient collaboration across commercial, operations, finance, supply chain, regulatory, and medical teams.
Clarify roles, responsibilities, and expectations across project teams to ensure alignment.
Provide analytical insights to inform strategic planning and performance tracking.
Prepare high quality presentations, strategic updates, and materials for internal and external stakeholders.
Introduce external best practices and future focused perspectives to anticipate trends, mitigate risks, and identify opportunities.
MBA or advanced degree in business, science, or related field.

• 10+ years of experience as a pharmaceutical commercial leader, ideally across both branded and generic segments.
• Experience in PMO leadership, corporate strategy, or chief of staff roles.
• Proven experience leading largescale, cross functional strategic or transformation initiatives and projects.
• Strong expertise of commercial and operational functions within pharma.
• Exceptional communication skills - verbal, written, and executive level presentation.
• Demonstrated ability to lead without direct authority and influence senior stakeholders.
• Experience in supply chain, regulatory affairs, and /or market access an asset.
• Fully bilingual in English and French ideal.
• At Teva Canada we provide a rewarding and collaborative work experience, with career growth and development opportunities for employees, in a safe and caring environment! The base pay offered may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, experience, education, and internal equity. In addition to base salary, this role may qualify for an annual bonus based on employment type. Certain positions may also be eligible for a sales commission structure as part of the overall compensation package. Teva Canada’s choices Benefit Plan including Health, Dental, Disability, Life Insurance

Employee Assistance Program & Virtual Health Programs
Retirement Savings Programs
Time for yourself or those you care about, through paid time for Vacation, Wellness days, Care/Sick days, Teva Days and Volunteer Days
More exciting details on the specific total rewards offerings to be provided at the offer stage depending on the position and employment type hiring for. This position will fill a current vacancy and Teva Canada may use an artificial intelligence (AI) system to assist with the initial screening and evaluation of job applications by analyzing for relevant skills, professional experience, and education, that best match the posted job qualifications. If you are a current Teva employee, please apply using the internal career site available on "Employee Central". Internal Career Site
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