Manager - Business Transformation (Biopharma) - Remote
About The Position
The Manager - Business Transformation serves as a results-oriented subject matter expert to strategy or business-unit leadership, helping achieve company strategies and short- and long-term objectives. The role provides business analysis and recommendations to improve operational effectiveness and efficiency on transformation initiatives. It supports cross-functional strategic initiatives with expertise and industry best practices in areas such as strategy, project management, and Lean Six Sigma, and facilitates the design and assessment of work to align with business and customer objectives. The manager synthesizes outputs from multiple work streams and teams into executive updates, design and prioritization frameworks, and business recommendations. The role partners with senior business leaders to develop change programs, conducts analyses and interviews, gathers data, identifies issues, and recommends solutions. It participates in multidisciplinary teams and cross-functional change programs, links strategic agendas to execution plans, develops requirements and executive presentations, maintains documentation, supports stakeholder alignment, and contributes to project work plans and status reporting.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree and at least 2 years of experience in strategy, project management, or process improvement; alternatively, a high school diploma or GED and at least 5 years of experience in one or more of those functions.
- Experience collaborating cross-functionally in a matrix structure and influencing stakeholders at all organizational levels.
- Experience diagnosing, isolating, designing, resolving, and documenting complex issues, and recommending and implementing strategies to resolve problems.
- Intermediate Microsoft PowerPoint skills.
- Intermediate Microsoft Excel skills.
- Intermediate Microsoft Word skills.
- Experience presenting and reporting on project plans and cost-benefit analyses to stakeholders, executives, and senior management.
- At least 1 year of direct, indirect, and/or cross-functional team leadership experience.
- Willingness to travel up to 10% of the time for business purposes, within and outside the state.
Nice To Haves
- MBA or master’s degree.
- Experience in the management consulting industry.
- Experience driving resolution of project conflicts within a team.
- Knowledge of project management financials.
- Strong organizational, written, and verbal communication skills.
- Experience persuading or convincing others to support an idea, agenda, or direction.
- Experience effectively managing change.
- Critical-thinking experience to identify creative solutions.
Responsibilities
- Provide advanced expertise and functional knowledge to strategy or business-unit leadership to help achieve company strategies.
- Facilitate end-to-end development of key change programs with senior business leaders; formulate hypotheses, conduct interviews, gather data, perform analyses, identify issues, and recommend approaches.
- Participate in cross-functional change programs and provide subject matter expertise and industry best practices in business transformation, engagement models, and functional areas.
- Participate in multidisciplinary project teams working on key company change programs.
- Synthesize project-team work and provide recommendations to the business.
- Link the company’s strategic agenda to execution plans and provide guidance on long- and short-term plans, including strategy, resource allocation, work plans, timelines, and business outcomes.
- Develop business design and solution requirements and help prioritize them with business partners and development teams.
- Develop executive-level presentations communicating business and program updates, risks, and opportunities.
- Develop and maintain documentation for cross-functional, enterprise efforts.
- Partner across functions to ensure seamless service delivery and handoffs from strategy formulation to execution.
- Resolve conflicts and influence key stakeholders, including supporting One Plan leadership in influencing executive management.
- Contribute to or guide project work plans by estimating requirements-analysis effort and reporting clear, accurate work status.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Manager
