Advisor, Strategy & Business Development

Cencora • USA > PA > Remote, PA

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About The Position

The Advisor, Strategy & Business Development supports leadership through executive communications, preparation for senior-level engagements, strategic analysis, and cross-functional initiative leadership. The role develops clear narratives and decision materials, helps align teams across the organization, and tackles urgent or ambiguous business problems. It may also support transformation, integration, or reorganization efforts and serve as a thought partner to leadership.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in business, finance, economics, communications, or a related field.
• 4–8 years of experience in strategy, management consulting, corporate development, business operations, or a chief-of-staff-type role.
• Demonstrated experience leading cross-functional initiatives through influence.
• Experience working directly with senior or executive leaders.

Nice To Haves

• MBA, master’s degree, or equivalent professional experience.
• Industry experience in healthcare, pharma, or distribution.

Responsibilities

• Write and maintain talking points for leadership meetings, town halls, customer or partner conversations, and enterprise forums.
• Keep messaging consistent across leaders, audiences, and channels, and maintain a library of approved positions and key facts.
• Draft internal communications on strategic priorities, organizational changes, and milestones.
• Prepare pre-read briefs for leader meetings, including background, stakeholders, objectives, risks, anticipated questions, and recommended positions.
• Produce one-page issue briefs and decision memos that frame options, tradeoffs, and recommendations.
• Prepare leaders for senior-level engagements with context on attendees, history, open items, and potential landmines.
• Build Q&A documents for major moments, including difficult questions and suggested responses.
• Lead selected strategic initiatives across Finance, Commercial, Operations, and other functions.
• Define initiative scope, owners, workplans, and milestones, and hold teams accountable through regular check-ins.
• Identify dependencies, conflicts, and risks early, and escalate them with clear options.
• Facilitate alignment when functions have competing priorities and drive decisions to closure.
• Report progress to leadership through concise status updates and dashboards.
• Synthesize financial, commercial, and operational data into insights and recommendations.
• Support annual planning, quarterly business reviews, and goal-setting.
• Take on urgent or undefined problems, quickly define the problem, gather input, and establish structure.
• Support transformation, integration, or reorganization efforts as needed.
• Serve as a trusted thought partner and sounding board to leadership.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision care.
• Support for working families, which may include backup dependent care, adoption assistance, infertility coverage, family building support, behavioral health solutions, paid parental leave, and paid caregiver leave.
• Training programs, professional development resources, and mentorship programs.
• Opportunities to participate in employee resource groups and volunteer activities.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level