Business Strategy and Operations P05
About The Position
The Manager, Strategic Initiatives combines strategic initiative management with advanced data analysis, dashboard analytics, and decision-support capabilities. The role translates complex portfolio, workforce, financial, resource, and operational data into clear insights that help leaders prioritize work, allocate resources, monitor execution, and make timely decisions. The position develops and maintains integrated dashboards, reporting tools, scorecards, and analytical views; strengthens data quality and governance across source systems; and supports cross-functional initiatives from problem definition through implementation and adoption. The role works across CDO, R&D, Finance, Human Resources, Talent Acquisition, Procurement, and Business Technology Solutions to connect strategy, funding, capacity, execution risk, and measurable outcomes. It promotes adoption of standardized dashboards, analytics, and processes by developing guidance, training users, gathering feedback, measuring utilization, and refining solutions to meet evolving business needs. It creates concise, executive-ready narratives and presentations that connect data to business impact and enable leaders to distinguish priorities, understand implications, and make informed portfolio, funding, workforce, and execution decisions. The position provides end-to-end leadership for cross-functional process improvement and strategic initiatives, including scope definition, integrated plans, resource projections, governance, decision points, risk mitigation, change management, and implementation. It facilitates initiative governance forums and working sessions; maintains clear documentation of decisions, actions, owners, milestones, and interdependencies; and escalates significant issues or resource gaps with fact-based options and recommendations. It identifies opportunities to automate recurring reporting, streamline manual workflows, improve data accessibility, and strengthen sustainable use of tools such as Power BI, Excel, SharePoint, Power Apps, Power Automate, Monday.com, and other approved platforms. It develops, monitors, and continuously improves key performance indicators, success measures, forecasts, and effectiveness metrics for strategic initiatives and business operations, proactively identifying material variances, emerging risks, and opportunities.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree or ex-US equivalent in business, data analytics, information systems, engineering, life sciences, finance, operations, or a related field.
- Typically 3+ years of relevant experience in pharmaceutical development, business operations, analytics, strategy, project or portfolio management, continuous improvement, consulting, or a related environment.
- Demonstrated initiative, learning agility, and comfort working through ambiguity to structure problems and create scalable solutions.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to explain analytical findings to technical and non-technical audiences and influence cross-functional stakeholders.
- Strong project management, problem-solving, and continuous-improvement skills, including the ability to manage milestones, risks, dependencies, and competing priorities in a matrixed environment.
- Experience developing and maintaining dashboards, scorecards, reports, or analytical products using Power BI, advanced Excel, or comparable data-visualization and business-intelligence tools.
Responsibilities
- Translate complex portfolio, workforce, financial, resource, and operational data into insights that inform prioritization, resource allocation, execution monitoring, and decision-making.
- Develop and maintain integrated dashboards, reporting tools, scorecards, and analytical views.
- Strengthen data quality and governance across source systems.
- Support cross-functional initiatives from problem definition through implementation and adoption.
- Promote adoption of standardized dashboards, analytics, and processes through guidance, user training, feedback collection, utilization measurement, and solution refinement.
- Create executive-ready narratives and presentations connecting data to business impact and supporting portfolio, funding, workforce, and execution decisions.
- Lead cross-functional process improvement and strategic initiatives, including scope definition, integrated plans, resource projections, governance, decision points, risk mitigation, change management, and implementation.
- Facilitate governance forums and working sessions; document decisions, actions, owners, milestones, and interdependencies; and escalate significant issues or resource gaps with fact-based options and recommendations.
- Identify opportunities to automate recurring reporting, streamline manual workflows, improve data accessibility, and strengthen use of approved tools and platforms.
- Develop, monitor, and continuously improve KPIs, success measures, forecasts, and effectiveness metrics for strategic initiatives and business operations.
- Proactively identify material variances, emerging risks, and opportunities.
Benefits
- Paid time off, including vacation, holidays, and sick time.
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance for eligible employees.
- 401(k) for eligible employees.
- Eligible to participate in short-term incentive programs.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Manager
