AD, Enterprise Investment Strategy & Optimization (2 positions)
About The Position
The Associate Director, Enterprise Investment Strategy & Optimization is part of the US Insights & Analytics organization, which integrates insights and analytics across therapeutic areas, functions, and the enterprise to support investment prioritization, performance tracking, and strategic direction. Based at the East Hanover, New Jersey site, this role provides enterprise and cross-portfolio resource optimization recommendations in partnership with Finance, covering components of US direct external spend, capability spend, and FTEs. The role reports to the Director, Enterprise Resource Optimization and partners closely with the Analytics, Capabilities & Modeling Center of Excellence for modeling inputs and integrated recommendations, including external benchmarks, financial ratios, and structural comparisons. The position is responsible for ensuring rigorous, disciplined, data-driven recommendations grounded in defensible decision frameworks. It requires 10% business-defined domestic and/or international travel and cannot be performed remotely.
Requirements
- At least 6 years of experience in resource allocation, investment optimization, commercial analytics, strategic finance, or management consulting in the pharmaceutical, biotechnology, healthcare, or life sciences industry.
- Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, Economics, Finance, Engineering, or a related field.
- Ability to translate complex quantitative analyses and model outputs into actionable recommendations for senior commercial, finance, and executive stakeholders.
- Strong understanding of commercial investment strategy, including marketing mix, promotion response, investment optimization, benchmarking, financial ratios, and portfolio-level decision-making.
- Experience partnering with Finance on budgeting, investment planning, resource allocation, and headcount management.
- Strategic problem-solving skills, including structuring ambiguous business challenges and developing clear, data-driven recommendations.
- Strong business acumen and knowledge of pharmaceutical commercial operations, investment dynamics, and analytics-driven decision-making.
- Excellent communication, stakeholder management, and influencing skills; ability to build alignment across functions and operate effectively without direct authority.
- Experience leading and developing teams in global or matrixed organizations.
- Strong analytical proficiency with Excel, Power BI, Tableau, or similar data visualization tools.
- Ability to navigate ambiguity with sound judgment.
Nice To Haves
- MBA or other advanced degree.
- Experience in top-tier management consulting or strategic business leadership.
- Track record in portfolio investment prioritization, launch resourcing, and decision-making across commercial, workforce, capital, and capability investments.
- Experience leading large-scale organizational transformation, operating model redesign, and change management.
- Knowledge of the US pharmaceutical commercial and analytics ecosystem, including AI-enabled approaches, offshore delivery models, and stakeholder communications.
Responsibilities
- Lead enterprise investment optimization across the US portfolio and recommend data-driven approaches to direct spend, capability investments, and headquarters and field resourcing.
- Develop integrated investment and workforce planning strategies using optimization models, financial analyses, external benchmarks, and industry analogs.
- Partner with Finance to develop investment recommendations that maximize business impact, operational efficiency, and resource allocation effectiveness.
- Challenge historical investment approaches and establish fact-based frameworks for allocating budgets and talent.
- Build and maintain external benchmarking capabilities to compare investment levels with industry peers and identify improvement opportunities.
- Translate complex analytical outputs into clear, actionable recommendations for senior leadership and executive decision-making forums.
- Serve as the strategic consultation lead in a two-in-a-box partnership with the Analytics, Capabilities & Modeling Center of Excellence.
- Define business questions, shape modeling requirements, validate assumptions, and stress-test methodologies to ensure robust, actionable insights.
- Collaborate with Forecasting, Enterprise & Functional Excellence, and other stakeholders to align investment, resourcing, and business priorities.
- Support enterprise planning cycles and executive governance processes with resource optimization insights and recommendations.
- Lead and develop teams within global or matrixed organizations.
Benefits
- Health, life, and disability benefits.
- 401(k) with company contribution and match.
- Other benefits included in a comprehensive benefits package.
- Generous time off package, including vacation, personal days, holidays, and other leaves.
- Performance-based cash incentive.
- Depending on role level, eligibility to be considered for annual equity awards.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
