**Danaher Company Description**
Nobel Biocare is a world leader in the field of innovative implant-based dental restorations – from single-tooth to fully edentulous indications. Nobel Biocare offers you a great place to work by giving you the opportunity to grow and be recognized for your effort and achievements.
**Description**
*Purpose*
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To lead the company towards achieving the corporate vision and to meet the corporate objectives as assigned by the President of NB as well as the Senior Vice President & General Manager APAC.
Contribute towards achieving the company’s long-term business plan and annual budgeted profit by leading the local team to recognize and meet the company’s set business objectives.
Achieve the agreed targets in top line growth through the ability to manage and lead the salesforce, familiarity with both dental market and customers, customer satisfaction through sales planning and account management, and ensure the delegated team satisfaction through performance and career management.
*Accountabilities *
To provide leadership in the country through implementation of strategies and operational efficiency to achieve business objectives.
Would be overall in charge of managing the country as a profit centre and would include business development, country profitability, sales, marketing and brand building, promotions,logistics, legal and local regulatory/ statutory compliances,manpower planning and management, general administration.
**Qualification**
*Critical Knowledge, Skills and Qualifications*
* Strong solutions knowledge with business understanding including Japan cultural & market knowledge.
* Profound knowledge in managing and leading a saleforce.
* High levels of energy to effect and drive improvement and change through the business.
* Ability to energize a large size workforce to achieve continually increasing performance levels.
* Ability to manage and develop high performers and to deal effectively and promptly with poor performers.
* Well trained in management, influencing & leadership skills.
* Ability to translate global and local business strategies into actions.
* Ability to perform regular process reviews, improve business practices and redesign organization structures to meet current and future business requirements.
* Strong drive to succeed, ability to lead, manage and develop employees to maximise their potential and deliver business results.
* Ability to plan and enhance workforce capability to meet future business requirements.
* Ability to target and support customer’s need, enterprise level customer relationship and development skills.
* Ability to regulate, monitor and inspire others to comply with Company’s policies and procedures and other external statutory, regulatory and contractual obligations.
* Excellent communication skills in English.
* Be innovative and high commercial orientation.
* Well developed business analysis skills including opportunity and risk assessment.
*Critical Experience*
* About 10-15 years sales experiences in multi-national organization of either healthcare or medical industry, with proven track record in managing and supervising a large size team (a team of around 160 associates) in the related field of job related activities and people management. Graduate preferably with post graduate management qualification.
* To cope with the local market and customers, native Japanese is preferred.
**Danaher Corporation Overview**
Danaher is a global science & technology innovator committed to helping our customers solve complex challenges and improve quality of life worldwide. Our world class brands are leaders in some of the most demanding and attractive industries. A globally diverse team of 81,000 associates, we are united by our culture and operating system, the Danaher Business System, which is our competitive advantage. In 2015, we generated $20.6B in revenue and our market cap exceeded $60B. We are #149 on the Fortune 500 and our stock has outperformed the S&P 500 by more than 2,000% over 20yrs.
At Danaher, you can build a career in a way no other company can duplicate. Our brands allow us to offer dynamic careers across multiple industries. We’re innovative, fast-paced, results-oriented, and we win. We need talented people to keep winning. Here you’ll learn how DBS is used to shape strategy, focus execution, align our people, and create value for customers and shareholders. Come join our winning team.
**Organization:** Nobel Biocare
**Job Function:** General Management
**Primary Location:** Asia Pacific-Japan-Kanto-Tokyo
**Schedule:** Full-time
**Req ID:** NOB000402