Senior Manager, Strategy & Business Development APAC

Sivantos Inc.; Singapore; On-site; SGD 180,000 - 280,000; Full time

Job summary

WSA seeks a Senior Manager, Strategy & Business Development APAC to lead the development and execution of the regional growth strategy across Asia Pacific. Reporting to the President APAC, the role will drive multi-country initiatives and governance to deliver measurable outcomes.

The ideal candidate brings 8+ years in business development or strategic planning, strong analytical skills, and a track record of cross-functional leadership within a matrixed organization.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in business development and/or strategic planning with multi-year strategies.
• Strong analytical capabilities to build roadmaps, milestones, and use data for decisions.
• External stakeholder management with senior executives and partners.
• Experience in strategic governance and reporting across a regional portfolio.
• Able to manage complexity in a fast-moving, matrixed organization.

Responsibilities

• Develop and own the 3-year APAC strategic plan translating global ambitions into regional roadmap by country.
• Collaborate with country teams to identify growth opportunities grounded in local insights.
• Partner with country leaders to create tailored initiatives with rollout plans for consistent execution across markets.
• Establish governance to monitor progress, milestones, risks, and opportunities.
• Support execution of priorities across the region by working with commercial, retail and functional teams.

Skills

Strategic planning

Business development

Stakeholder management

Governance frameworks

Cross-functional collaboration

Job description

Driven by the passion to improve quality of people's lives, WSA continues to grow as market leader in the hearing aid industry. With our commitment to increase penetration in an underserved hearing care market, we want to accelerate our business transformation in order to reach more people, more effectively.

To deliver on our purpose on making wonderful sound part of everyone’s life, we are we are looking for a a Senior Manager, Strategy & Business Development APAC to lead the development and execution of the regional growth strategy across the Asia Pacific region. Reporting directly to the President APAC, the successful candidate will:

What you will do

• Develop and own the 3-year strategic plan for the APAC region, translating WSA's global ambitions into a clear, actionable regional roadmap broken down by country
• Collaborate closely with country teams to identify and prioritize key growth opportunities, ensuring strategies are grounded in local market insight and commercially compelling
• Partner with country leaders to develop tailored strategic initiatives, complete with structured rollout plans that enable consistent and effective execution across markets
• Establish and maintain a governance framework to monitor the progress of strategic initiatives, track performance against milestones and surface risks and opportunities in a timely manner
• Support the execution of strategic priorities across the region, working cross-functionally with commercial, retail and functional teams to drive alignment and accountability

What you bring

Experience

• 8+ years of experience in business development and or strategic planning, with a demonstrated ability to develop multi-year strategies and translate them into executable plans that deliver measurable outcomes
• Strong analytical capabilities, with experience building strategic roadmaps, defining milestones and using data to assess performance and inform decision-making
• Effective external stakeholder management, with the ability to engage, influence and build trusted relationships with a broad range of partners, including country leadership teams, commercial partners and senior executives
• Experience in strategic governance and execution, including designing and managing reporting frameworks that provide transparency and drive accountability across a regional portfolio of initiatives
• A structured and organized approach to managing complexity, with the ability to balance long-term strategic thinking with the pragmatism needed to deliver in a fast-moving, matrixed organization

Performance and personal competencies

• A results-driven high performer with a strong "can-do" attitude
• Willing to drive organizational change
• Drive, determination and high standards. Resilience, high energy and a 'can-do' attitude
• Results orientated, accountable, and leads by example, raising standards
• Influential, make an impact, drive the teams and act as role model
• A people-oriented person who is always looking for solutions and bringing quality and efficiency improvements.

Who we are

At WSA, we provide innovative hearing aids and hearing health services.

Together with our 12,000 colleagues in 130 countries, we invite you to help unlock human potential by bringing back hearing for millions of people around the world.

With us, you will become part of a truly global company where we care for one another, welcome diversity and celebrate our successes.

Sounds wonderful?We can't wait to hear from you.

WSA is an equal-opportunity employer andcommitted to creating an inclusive employee experience for all. Regardless of race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, marital status, medical condition, ancestry, disability, military or veteran status we firmly believe that our work is at its best when everyone feels free to be their most authentic self.