Senior Manager, Strategy & Business Development APAC

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 and committed 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.

WSAudiology is formed in 2019, through the merger of Sivantos and Widex, WS Audiology combines over 140 years of experience in pioneering the use of technology to help people with hearing loss hear the sounds that make life wonderful. We are active in over 125 markets and employ 11,000 people worldwide. Our broad portfolio of hearing-related products and services generates annual revenues of around EUR 2 billion.

As advanced as hearing care is today, we are dedicated to making it even better. Our people have a passion for innovation and are committed to applying it to help make a wonderful sound part of everyone’s life.

There is nothing more rewarding to us than seeing someone regain the miracle of hearing and watching them thrive. As a leader in our industry, we have already helped improve the lives of millions of people, but there is more to be done.

WSAudiology Singapore employs more than 1,300 people across a variety of functions. Here, we host numerous global functions such as Manufacturing & Supply Chain, Quality, IT, Legal, and HR. We also develop and manufacture state-of-the-art behind-the-ear hearing aid devices for our global markets.

Learn about us on

www.wsa.com