Director Strategic Planning
Job Description
Position Description
Primary Responsibilities
- Lead and support the development of enterprise critical commercial initiatives. Identifying opportunities, creating evaluations, and recommendations, in collaboration with commercial executive leaders.
- Partner in the implementation of critical commercial priorities that require substantial cross-divisional collaboration, strategic thought-partnership, and negotiation to deliver the best solution and impact for the business.
- Use existing or develop novel strategic frameworks to lay out potential options, evaluate implications and conduct 'what you need to believe' or similar analytical analyses to drive to a final recommendation.
- Bring outside-in perspectives, contributing new ideas and priorities to commercial leadership, leveraging experience and depth of understanding of evolving industry trends.
- Collaborate with commercial leaders on prioritized business unit needs and launch planning and excellence providing strategic thought-partnership.
- Partner with commercial and cross-divisional leaders to bring in market and competitive perspectives that inform therapeutic area portfolio strategy (e.g., outside-in commercial assessment for opportunity sizing, target product profile development).
- Manage directly and indirectly internal and external associates dedicated to our programs.
- Create thriving and psychologically safe engagements, leading without authority to provide new and novel strategic perspectives.
Minimum Required Skills:
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent required, Master's in Business Administration or PhD preferred
- 4+ years of strategy management consulting experience from a top-tier firm (e.g., BCG, McKinsey, L.E.K., ZS, Kearney)
- Minimum of 5+ years of biopharmaceutical experience across diverse roles of increasing responsibility, including commercial experience in US/Global marketing and asset launches required.
- Use existing or develop novel strategic frameworks to lay out potential options, evaluate implications and conduct 'what you need to believe' or similar analytical analyses to drive to a final recommendation.
- High business acumen distilling complex commercial problems, create structured framing, assessments, and actionable recommendations in collaboration with commercial colleagues.
- Analytical expertise and external landscape knowledge to build data-driven insights to inform recommendations including experience with, or awareness of, developing commercial market assessments on therapeutic / disease area strategy to inform development of TPP.
- Strong ability to influence decision-making in a highly matrixed organization, demonstrating empathy, collaboration, and high Emotional Intelligence.
- Demonstrated ability to thrive in ambiguity, exceling in bringing cross-functional colleagues together leading high-priority initiatives .
- Ability to prioritize time and problem solve to focus on most impactful initiatives.
- Strong communicator with excellent verbal and written skills; ability to communicate effectively with senior management and across all levels of the business
- Driven, curious, and collaborative professional with a growth mindset, strong organizational skills, and a willingness to learn.
Required Skills:
Adaptability, Adaptability, Analytical Tools, Budget Management, Business Acumen, Business Analysis, Business Decisions, Business Operations, Business Opportunity Identification, Business Planning, Data-Driven Decision Making, Decision Making, Developing Proposals, Enterprise Leadership, Executive Presence, Industry Trend Analysis, Influencing Skills, Management Consulting, Managing Ambiguity, Market Access, Market Research, Oncology Marketing, Organizational Leadership, Pharmaceutical Industry, Results-Oriented {+ 7 more}
Preferred Skills
US and Puerto Rico Residents Only
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San Francisco Residents Only
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