Associate Operations Strategy Director

Role Summary

Associate United States Operations Strategy Director responsible for leading the development, evolution, activation, and implementation of the overall company strategy for US Operations (USO) to drive sustainable growth. Manage enterprise level strategy end to end, ensuring strategic ambition, priorities and enablers are connected and translated throughout the organization. Define USO's future direction, use scenario planning and stress testing to evaluate alternatives, surface trade offs, and convert strategic priorities into actionable initiatives with clear owners, timelines, and success metrics.

• Company level strategy ownership: manage the US Operations (USO) company level strategy end to end, maintaining the central strategy repository, governance cadence, and alignment between strategic ambition, priorities, and organizational enablers
• Strategic roadmap development: create and evolve a 3–5 year strategic roadmap that defines USO’s future direction, identifies enterprise opportunities, and aligns mid/long term ambitions with business priorities
• Ecosystem insight and risk assessment: monitor the healthcare ecosystem (regulatory, technology, market, competitor) and translate external trends into strategic implications; identify and assess enterprise risks and recommend mitigations
• Scenario planning and decision support: lead scenario modeling, sensitivity analysis, and stress testing to evaluate alternatives, surface trade offs, and provide clear recommendations to enable senior leaders to make high impact choices for benefits of our patients
• Strategy activation and initiative delivery: convert strategic priorities into actionable initiatives and operating plans with clear owners, timelines, success metrics, and delivery governance; lead or sponsor cross functional work streams to achieve results
• Change management and adoption: design and embed change management approaches (communications, training, stakeholder engagement) to ensure organizational readiness and sustained adoption of strategic shifts
• Financial alignment: partner with Finance to ensure alignment between strategy and financial milestones, to accurately translate strategy into investment guidance for the company
• Performance measurement and continuous improvement: define KPIs and dashboards, monitor execution performance, recommend course corrections, and drive continuous improvement of strategy processes and tools
• Stakeholder influence and executive engagement: build alignment across commercial, medical, access, supply, operations, corporate strategy, and external partners; represent USO strategy in senior leadership forums and convene the US Operations Strategy Board for cross value chain decisions
• Communication and strategic reporting: develop audience appropriate strategy communications and presentation materials for executive and management audiences; partner with Executive Communications as needed
• Team dynamics: foster a collaborative, accountable culture; coach and mentor colleagues; ensure close partnership with the Director, US Operations Strategy to integrate strategic shifts into the broader strategy management process

• Required:
  
  Bachelor’s degree from an accredited university or equivalent education with 9+ years of progressively relevant corporate business strategy development and planning, marketing and brand management, consulting, commercial operations experience required, OR a Master’s Degree/MBA from an accredited university or equivalent with 7+ years of experience, and/or a Doctorate degree from an accredited university or equivalent education with 5+ years of experience
• Preferred:
  Pharmaceutical or CPG industries strongly preferred
• Preferred:
  Business case development, management consulting, strategy, or finance experience preferred
• Preferred:
  Understanding of the external marketplace and familiarity in metabolic disease areas preferred
• Required:
  
  Strategic thinker with excellent problem-solving skills and the ability to work with senior management and communicate effectively to the highest level of executives
• Required:
  
  Strong decision-making skills through demonstrated ability to leverage evidenced-based insights and sound judgement into strategy development, deployment and optimization
• Required:
  
  Project management, process development and change management experience required
• Required:
  
  Ability to manage competing priorities; strong organizational skills; demonstrated ability to streamline and simplify complex concepts for broader audience
• Required:
  
  Proven cross-functional organizational behavior and collaboration skills with ability to influence and inspire multiple levels of leadership
• Preferred:
  People management/team development experience preferred

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  Qualifications:
  
  Bachelor’s degree required, with Master’s/MBA or Doctorate considered for advanced roles and when paired with corresponding experience

• 10-20% overnight travel required