Director, Business Improvement

Telix Pharmaceuticals (AMER)

About The Position

The Director, Business Improvement is an individual contributor and strategic leader within Telix Pharmaceuticals’ Business Improvement Office. The role provides enterprise-level guidance, prioritization, and oversight across high-impact strategic, operational, and business development initiatives across the global organization. It partners with business and senior cross-functional leadership to advance strategic priorities, support investment decisions, and ensure disciplined execution that improves business performance. The position owns strategy development, financial evaluations, and value creation across the portfolio of strategic initiatives. The Director is expected to serve as a trusted advisor and strategic operator, translating ambiguity into direction, influencing executive stakeholders, and helping complex, multi-workstream efforts deliver measurable outcomes. The role establishes portfolio governance, reporting and performance standards, prioritization frameworks, and decision-making processes; identifies risks and dependencies; and synthesizes initiative-level information into enterprise insights and executive recommendations. It also drives cross-functional alignment, resolves barriers, and builds organizational capability by coaching and mentoring initiative leads. The position requires domestic travel of up to 25%. Telix describes its workforce as including hybrid and remote employees around the world. The company offers competitive salaries, annual performance-based bonuses, an equity-based incentive program, generous vacation, paid wellness days, and learning and development support.

Requirements

Master’s or higher in a STEM or business-related field and 8+ years of Management Consulting, Investment Banking, PE/VC, or internal advisory experience; or a bachelor’s degree in a STEM or business-related field and 10+ years of experience in analytical, strategy, operations, project management, or business improvement roles.
Demonstrated experience advising executive leadership on strategic priorities and investment decisions.
Experience owning enterprise or multi-business-unit initiative portfolios, including governance design and value realization.
Ability to work in a fast-paced, matrixed environment with cross-functional and cross-business-unit stakeholders.
Demonstrated experience overseeing multiple complex initiatives and guiding work across cross-functional resources.
Strong analytical and finance capabilities, including proficiency in MS Office and the ability to synthesize quantitative and qualitative inputs into executive-level presentations.
Experience conducting primary and secondary research, data analysis, and documentation to support business cases, operational improvements, and decision-making.
Ability to operate with limited direction, manage ambiguity, and influence outcomes through structured thinking and collaboration.
Strong business and financial acumen, including the ability to interpret P&L statements and assess financial impacts.
Ability to create financial statements and NPV models for business cases, M&A, and strategic partnerships.
Ability to structure ambiguous problems and synthesize insights.
Clear, concise written and verbal communication skills suitable for leadership audiences.
Strong organizational and prioritization skills across multiple concurrent initiatives.
Comfort working with ambiguity, evolving scope, and competing priorities.
Project management, executive-level presentation, and financial modeling skills.
Accountability for outcomes across multiple initiatives and follow-through to completion.
Attention to analytical quality and detail to support sound, defensible decision-making.
Ability to translate complex topics into clear, structured, decision-focused updates.
Adaptability as priorities, scope, and business needs evolve.
Ability to work collaboratively across teams while maintaining clear role boundaries and accountability.
Willingness to travel domestically up to 25%.

Nice To Haves

Experience in pharma, biotech, healthcare, or MedTech.

Responsibilities

Oversee and lead execution of a portfolio of strategic initiatives, ensuring alignment with enterprise priorities, long-term objectives, and value delivery.
Establish reporting and performance standards that provide leadership with consistent visibility into initiative progress, risks, and value delivered.
Identify risks, issues, and dependencies early and escalate them to leadership with recommended options.
Establish and maintain governance structures, tracking mechanisms, and decision frameworks across initiatives.
Ensure clear prioritization, sequencing, and trade-off decisions across competing initiatives.
Hold initiative owners accountable for delivery, outcomes, and alignment with strategic objectives.
Define and own the enterprise framework, standards, and methodologies for evaluating, prioritizing, and governing strategic initiatives.
Ensure the integrity and defensibility of financial and business-case analysis supporting enterprise investment decisions.
Serve as a strategic thought partner to business-unit leadership on priorities and investment decisions.
Synthesize information across initiatives into enterprise-level insights, risks, and recommendations for executive leadership.
Lead creation of executive-ready materials for the board, business-unit leadership, and functional leaders.
Facilitate decision-making forums and ensure clarity, alignment, and follow-through.
Provide challenge and perspective to leadership to improve decision quality and organizational focus.
Drive alignment across business units and key functions, including R&D, Sales, Finance, and IT.
Influence senior stakeholders through structured problem solving, data-driven insights, and executive presence.
Resolve cross-functional conflicts, remove barriers, and enable progress across complex, interdependent workstreams.
Build organizational capability and analytical rigor across Telix.
Coach and mentor initiative leads to improve their performance and effectiveness.