Chief of Staff Corporate Strategy
About The Position
The Chief of Staff, Corporate Strategy reports to the Head of Corporate Strategy and serves as her key operating and coordination partner. The role helps ensure Intuitive’s enterprise-wide strategic agenda runs smoothly, from the CEO Strategy Group’s operating cadence to follow-through on priority workstreams across the organization. It offers visibility into important strategic decisions and requires organizational rigor, sound judgment, rapid synthesis of complex information, and discretion in working closely with the CEO and senior leadership. The Chief of Staff owns the operating rhythm of the Corporate Strategy function, including planning and facilitating strategic forums, tracking progress and decisions across the enterprise-wide workstream portfolio, and coordinating information among the Head of Corporate Strategy, directly responsible individuals (DRIs), executive sponsors, and the CEO. The role also supports team operations, leads special projects and analyses, and represents the Head of Corporate Strategy in selected meetings.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree required.
- 12 or more years of progressive professional experience, ideally spanning strategy consulting, corporate strategy, executive or chief-of-staff roles, or an equivalent analytical or operational role; preferably in medical devices or broader healthcare.
- Demonstrated experience in a chief-of-staff, executive-office, or similar role supporting senior leaders, ideally within a large, matrixed organization.
- Exceptional organizational and program-management skills, including the ability to manage multiple concurrent workstreams and competing priorities.
- Strong executive communication skills, including experience preparing materials for and presenting to senior executives and boards.
- Sound judgment and discretion in handling highly sensitive and confidential information.
- Ability to build trust and influence across a large, matrixed organization without relying on formal authority.
- Strong written synthesis skills and ability to distill complex, ambiguous information into clear, decision-ready recommendations.
- High degree of professional judgment, integrity, and ownership.
Nice To Haves
- MBA or other advanced degree.
- Professional experience in medical devices or the broader healthcare industry.
Responsibilities
- Own the Corporate Strategy function’s operating rhythm, including planning, agenda-setting, and follow-through for the CEO Strategy Group and other recurring strategic forums.
- Partner with the Head of Corporate Strategy to prioritize her time and attention across the enterprise-wide strategic workstream portfolio and surface issues and decisions requiring her focus.
- Track progress, decisions, and action items across enterprise-wide strategic workstreams and hold DRIs and executive sponsors accountable for timely follow-through.
- Prepare, review, and quality-control materials, briefings, and presentations for the CEO Strategy Group, senior leadership, and other executive forums.
- Serve as a trusted thought partner and sounding board to the Head of Corporate Strategy on emerging issues, priorities, and organizational dynamics.
- Manage information flow between Corporate Strategy and leaders across the organization, ensuring the right people have the right information at the right time.
- Partner with the Competitive Insights team to incorporate analysis into strategic planning and gather additional competitive, market, and industry intelligence as needed; synthesize findings into timely, decision-ready input.
- Identify and help remove roadblocks to strategic initiatives, escalate issues appropriately, and drive resolution.
- Lead special projects and analyses on behalf of the Head of Corporate Strategy as enterprise priorities evolve.
- Support Corporate Strategy team operations, including planning, resource allocation, and talent processes as needed.
- Represent the Head of Corporate Strategy in selected meetings and forums, ensuring continuity and consistent messaging across the organization.
Benefits
- Market-competitive compensation package, including base pay, incentives, benefits, and equity.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
