Director Strategic Planning

MSD • Rahway, NJ

1d • $173,200 - $272,600 • Hybrid

About The Position

The Enterprise Strategy Office develops, implements, and drives enterprise strategy in support of the company, its customers, and shareholders. Its work includes strategic program management, enterprise strategic planning, risk management, and strategic venture investments in healthcare through the Global Health Innovation fund.

The Director of Commercial Strategy Development leads and supports strategy development for enterprise-critical commercial initiatives. The role assesses and designs priorities involving complex, high-ambiguity questions with significant potential upside, including ongoing initiatives and new strategies and capabilities. It works with senior leaders to socialize and refine initiatives and build support for value creation and change adoption. The position reports to the Executive Director, Commercial Strategy, Enterprise Strategy Office. Rahway, New Jersey is preferred; candidates from Upper Gwynedd, Pennsylvania will also be considered. The role is hybrid, with 10% travel and a day shift.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent required.
• At least 4 years of strategy management consulting experience at a top-tier firm.
• At least 5 years of biopharmaceutical experience across diverse roles of increasing responsibility, including commercial experience in US or global marketing and asset launches.
• Ability to apply or develop strategic frameworks, assess options and implications, and conduct analytical analyses to support recommendations.
• Strong business acumen and ability to structure complex commercial problems, assessments, and actionable recommendations with commercial colleagues.
• Analytical expertise and external landscape knowledge to develop data-driven insights, including experience with or awareness of commercial market assessments for therapeutic or disease-area strategy and target product profile development.
• Ability to influence decisions in a highly matrixed organization, demonstrating empathy, collaboration, and emotional intelligence.
• Ability to thrive amid ambiguity and bring cross-functional colleagues together to lead high-priority initiatives.
• Ability to prioritize time and solve problems to focus on impactful initiatives.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, including the ability to communicate with senior management and across business levels.
• Curiosity, drive, collaboration, a growth mindset, strong organizational skills, and willingness to learn.
• Skills listed include adaptability, analytical tools, budget management, business acumen and analysis, business decisions and operations, opportunity identification, business planning, data-driven decision-making, proposal development, enterprise and organizational leadership, executive presence, industry trend analysis, influencing, management consulting, managing ambiguity, market access, market research, oncology marketing, pharmaceutical industry, and results orientation.

Nice To Haves

• Master of Business Administration or PhD.
• Commercial, marketing, market access, and/or analytics experience.
• Collaboration and commercial awareness.

Responsibilities

• Lead and support development of enterprise-critical commercial initiatives, identifying opportunities and creating evaluations and recommendations with commercial executive leaders.
• Partner in implementing critical commercial priorities that require cross-divisional collaboration, strategic thought partnership, and negotiation.
• Use or develop strategic frameworks to define options, evaluate implications, and conduct analytical assessments to reach recommendations.
• Bring outside-in perspectives and new ideas and priorities to commercial leadership, informed by evolving industry trends.
• Collaborate with commercial leaders on prioritized business-unit needs, launch planning, and launch excellence.
• Partner with commercial and cross-divisional leaders to incorporate market and competitive perspectives into therapeutic-area portfolio strategy, including opportunity sizing and target product profile development.
• Manage internal and external associates dedicated to programs, directly and indirectly.
• Create psychologically safe engagements and lead without authority, offering new strategic perspectives.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, vision, healthcare, and other insurance benefits for employees and family.
• Retirement benefits, including 401(k).
• Paid holidays, vacation, compassionate days, and sick days.
• Annual bonus and long-term incentive, if applicable.

What This Job Offers

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