Associate Director, Corporate Strategy

Sarepta Therapeutics • Cambridge, MA

20h • Hybrid

About The Position

The Associate Director, Corporate Strategy will work within Sarepta’s small internal consulting team to advance key corporate initiatives and the vision of the Executive Committee. The role spans diverse, high-priority projects and requires independently driving and resolving ambiguous problems with limited oversight. The team’s work includes strategic planning, long-range financial planning, portfolio strategy and prioritization, benchmarking, rapid-response initiatives, and functional strategic projects.

The role coordinates annual strategic planning with the Head of Corporate Strategy, connecting the process to Sarepta’s long-range plan and supporting Finance’s annual budget planning. It also monitors the competitive landscape across the portfolio and ensures leaders are informed about program status inside and outside the company.

For corporate consulting projects, the Associate Director helps scope workstreams and define goals, analytical approaches, success measures, stakeholders, and responsibilities. The role designs and executes analyses, checks and pressure-tests results, develops integrated presentations, and leads project-management activities. It communicates findings to senior management and smaller groups and builds working relationships across functions and organizational levels, including with the Executive Committee.

This is a hybrid position. The employee is expected to work onsite at a Sarepta facility in the United States and/or attend company-sponsored in-person events from time to time. Travel may be required as business needs arise, though routine travel is not required. Candidates must be authorized to work in the United States. The targeted salary range is $160,800–$201,000 per year.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in a technical discipline.
• At least 7 years of professional experience.
• Direct experience in biotech or pharmaceuticals.
• Significant consulting experience at a top-tier management consulting firm.
• Ability to independently drive and resolve ambiguous, complex questions with limited oversight.
• Ability to communicate with C-suite stakeholders, synthesize information, and present clearly to senior stakeholders.
• Deep understanding of basic business structure and drug development, including standard functions and their interdependencies.
• Ability to perform detailed financial analysis, including eNPVs, IRRs, and other financial modeling.
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Strong work-planning and project-management capabilities, including scoping and executing projects and developing actionable insights and recommendations.
• Full proficiency in MS Excel and PowerPoint, and understanding of how to develop fully dependent GANTT charts.
• Track record of forming effective working relationships at all levels and working cross-functionally.
• Ability to travel as business needs arise.
• Authorization to work in the United States.

Nice To Haves

• Master’s degree or MBA.
• Motivation to help bring transformative treatments to patients.
• Eagerness to learn about all facets of the biotech business.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate Sarepta’s annual strategic planning with the Head of Corporate Strategy, linking it to the long-range plan and supporting Finance’s annual budget planning process.
• Monitor the competitive landscape across the portfolio and keep leaders informed about program status inside and outside the portfolio.
• Collaborate with project leads to propose project goals, scope, workstreams, analytical approaches, success measures, stakeholders, and roles and responsibilities.
• Design and drive analyses to answer key questions, including determining sources, analyzing data, and selecting presentation formats; secure stakeholder buy-in and independently execute the work.
• Check and pressure-test analytical results, and develop integrated project outputs and presentations.
• Lead project-management activities, including coordinating meetings, setting objectives and agendas, documenting decisions and action items, monitoring risks, aligning senior stakeholders, and tracking progress against goals.
• Prepare process- and content-focused slides, present analyses to senior management, and lead presentations to smaller groups.
• Develop and maintain strong working relationships across organizational levels and functions, including HR, BD, R&D, CMC, and Commercial, with interactions extending to the Executive Committee.
• Proactively maintain current priorities, action items, and open questions to move workstreams forward.
• Perform detailed financial analysis, including eNPVs, IRRs, and other financial modeling as needed.

Benefits

• Competitive compensation and benefits package.
• Benefits and work-life resources supporting physical and emotional wellness, financial wellness, and caregivers.

What This Job Offers

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