Dir., Strategic Planning

Job Description

Director Strategy Execution

The Enterprise Strategy Office (ESO) develops implements and drives enterprise strategy in support of our company its customers and shareholders. The scope of this group includes strategic program management enterprise strategic planning risk management as well as strategic venture investments in healthcare as part of our Global Health Innovation fund. Together we identify business critical challenges create and evaluate options and ensure effective implementation and cross-functional engagement.

Position Description:

The Director of Strategy Execution plays a crucial role in translating organizational strategy into successful implementation. This involves executing strategic initiatives across the company collaborating with senior leaders (e.g. Executive Team ET-1 ET-2) and initiative leads. This role will be responsible for driving the execution of enterprise and cross-divisional projects solving complex problems ensuring effective stakeholder engagement value creation and adoption of change.

The successful candidate will be a driven strategic thinker with a focus on executional excellence adept at navigating complex environments and experienced in driving large-scale organizational change.

Primary Responsibilities

• Ensure executional excellence of key enterprise initiatives.

• Lead the execution of ongoing and future key enterprise initiatives in collaboration with operational leaders with a focus on enhancing execution and value delivery.

• Drive internal and external teams to progress critical enterprise initiatives with timely and effective execution.

• Identify and address critical gaps in team performance in coordination with transformation leaders.

• Manage directly and indirectly internal and external associates dedicated to our programs.

• Lead special projects and assignments as needed.

• Create thriving and psychologically safe engagements to provide new and novel strategic perspectives.

Position Qualifications:

Education:

• B.S. degree or equivalent required MBA or PhD preferred

Required Skills/Experience:

• A minimum of 10 years of professional experience across diverse roles including pharmaceutical industry enterprise strategy R&D manufacturing business and/or management consulting experience from a top-tier firm with strong focus on innovation and enterprise business transformations.

• Minimum 5 years of enterprise program management and strategy execution.

• Experience leading large organizational change and providing oversight to transformation.

• Experience managing teams as well as external vendors preferably in a consulting or corporate transformation context.

• Thrives in ambiguity excels at problem-solving and makes rapid disciplined decisions focused on value delivery.

• Effective problem-solving and analytical skills successfully navigating matrixed organizations building consensus and influencing decision-making.

• Strong communication skills to effectively engage with senior management and across all levels of the business.

• Excellent business acumen including subject matter expertise in areas such as Marketing Commercial IT R&D Manufacturing Access Policy and/or Obs. Research.

• Strong leadership qualities to empower and inspire teams with an emphasis on empathy active listening and enabling colleagues success.

• Collaborative nature with the ability to work with diverse personalities and collaborate effectively with various functions and stakeholders.

• Possesses emotional intelligence growth mindset curiosity drive teamwork organization and coachability.

Preferred:

• MBA PhD consulting firm and/or multi-industry experience.

• Deep and diverse understanding of the pharmaceutical industry.

• Management consulting experience from a top-tier firm.

• Ability to attract talent and build/lead a highly functioning team over time.

• Potential for taking on greater responsibilities within the organization over time.

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