AVP, LDG Strategy (Business Group)

Agilent Technologies•Santa Clara, CA

10d•Remote

About The Position

The Associate Vice President (AVP), LDG Strategy is the architect and driver of Life Sciences & Diagnostics Markets Group (LDG) business group strategy—translating enterprise direction into clear ‘where to play / how to win’ choices, a prioritized growth agenda, and an execution-ready operating rhythm across all LDG divisions. The role partners closely with the LDG President/Leadership Team, division general managers, and key enterprise functions to shape the portfolio, size and validate opportunities, and ensure resources flow to the highest-value bets—while embedding strategy into day-to-day management through mechanisms such as a balanced scorecard, strategic reviews, and focused deep dives. This leader combines rigorous analytics and market insight with the ability to influence and align stakeholders across a highly matrixed, global organization.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree required; MBA and/or life sciences/diagnostics-related technical degree preferred.
12+ years of experience in strategy, business development, strategic marketing, market/competitive intelligence, management consulting, investment banking, or related roles with increasing leadership responsibility.
Demonstrated ability to lead through influence in a global, multi-cultural, highly matrixed environment; track record of aligning stakeholders to decisions and outcomes.
Strong analytical skills (market sizing, competitive evaluation, portfolio trade-offs) and comfort operating in ambiguity.
Exceptional written and verbal communication skills; ability to synthesize complex inputs into clear executive recommendations.
Acting Strategically Bring new thinking that challenges assumptions and conventional wisdom. Apply strong analytics in market and competitive evaluations (structure, conduct, performance) to inform decisions. Set ambitious but achievable goals; identify and act on opportunities that enable targets to be exceeded. Demonstrate creative problem-solving and identify non-obvious opportunities; build support for bold recommendations.
Collaborating and Influencing Align stakeholders to adopt creative and non-obvious opportunities; build coalitions across divisions and functions. Engage others in open dialogue; adapt influence approach to stakeholder needs and concerns. Leverage external network to identify trends and farther-afield opportunities; bring market perspective into decision forums. Anticipate potential conflicts and pre-empt them through structured alignment, clarity on trade-offs, and crisp decision framing.

Nice To Haves

Exposure to M&A diligence processes is a plus; experience working cross-functionally with finance, corporate development, and business leadership.

Responsibilities

Business Group Strategy & Strategic Planning Lead LDG’s end-to-end strategic planning process: annual strategy, multi-year roadmap, and targeted strategic deep dives that sharpen choices and accelerate decisions. Translate enterprise priorities into LDG strategy and actionable priorities across divisions, balancing near-term performance with longer-term growth. Create alignment on investment theses, strategic trade-offs, and resource allocation across divisions and functions.
Portfolio Strategy, Growth Pipeline & Business Cases Build and maintain a portfolio view of LDG opportunities across core, adjacent, and whitespace areas—backed by market sizing, customer insight, and competitive dynamics. Develop decision-grade business cases (value creation logic, risks, milestones, leading indicators) to enable data-backed prioritization. Establish a clear pipeline of growth initiatives, with stage gates from concept → validation → scale.
Strategy Activation & Operating Mechanisms Embed strategy into LDG operating cadence through balanced scorecard metrics, operating reviews, and performance dialogues—ensuring early visibility to progress, pivots, and trade-offs. Partner with PMO/operational leaders to connect strategic priorities to initiatives, timelines, owners, and outcomes with executional certainty. Drive cross-divisional collaboration and decision velocity by clarifying ownership and coordinating dependencies.
Market & Competitive Intelligence Maintain a forward-looking view of macro and market drivers affecting LDG; translate trends into implications for portfolio choices and capability building. Characterize market structure, customer needs, competitor behavior, and value pools to inform ‘how to win’ strategies.
Partnership on Inorganic Growth (in collaboration) In partnership with Corporate Development and divisional leaders, support identification and screening of potential targets aligned to LDG strategic priorities. Contribute to diligence hypotheses, investment rationale, and (as applicable) integration value-creation planning.
Executive Communication & Stakeholder Leadership Craft crisp, executive-ready narratives and materials that translate complexity into clear choices, consequences, and actions. Build coalitions across divisions and functions; anticipate conflicts and align stakeholders to outcomes through influence and trust.