Senior Director, Responsible Business Strategy & Governance
About The Position
The Senior Director serves as a strategic thought partner to the Executive Director and a senior cross-functional execution leader for Responsible Business. The role helps shape priorities, evaluate options and tradeoffs, and turn agreed strategy into clear recommendations, effective governance, and accountable delivery of complex enterprise initiatives. The Executive Director retains responsibility for overall strategy, executive alignment, and material decisions. The position leads strategy activation, governance, and a defined portfolio of complex cross-functional initiatives. Initial priorities may include the KPI universe, patient-reach methodology, and human rights policy. The role also supports selected reporting delivery when broader strategy or senior cross-functional alignment is needed, while reporting architecture, recurring data and evidence coordination, reviews, approvals, and submissions remain with the Director or named interim reporting driver and accountable owners. The Senior Director coordinates defined governance and strategic initiatives across Stakeholder Intelligence, Sustainability, Strategic Partnerships, reporting, and communications, preserving the accountability of each capability lead. They establish time-bound teams, milestones, and accountabilities; resolve delivery barriers; and transition mature work to durable owners. The role also advises the Executive Director and helps strengthen the team’s strategic capability, operating discipline, and bench. The role requires significant senior-level experience in Responsible Business or a related field, strong enterprise governance and cross-functional leadership capabilities, and the ability to synthesize complex material into decision-ready recommendations. Experience in biopharma, healthcare, or another highly regulated global organization is preferred.
Requirements
- 14 or more years of relevant experience with a BS/BA, or 12 or more years of relevant experience with an MS/MA or MBA.
- Significant senior-level experience across Responsible Business, corporate affairs, public affairs, sustainability, governance, strategy, or a related discipline in a complex organization.
- Demonstrated success leading complex, high-stakes initiatives across functions and influencing senior executives without relying on direct authority.
- Strong understanding of governance, data and reporting architecture, controls, evidence, disclosure readiness, external assessments, or related enterprise systems.
- Exceptional strategic synthesis, executive writing, facilitation, and judgment, including the ability to convert technical material into clear choices and recommendations.
- Experience designing technology-enabled workflows and using data and analytics to improve governance, decision-making, and operational visibility.
- Ability to establish structure quickly, distinguish material issues from process noise, and move work from ambiguity to decision and execution.
- Strong cross-functional leadership, stakeholder management, and disciplined follow-through.
Nice To Haves
- Experience in biopharma, healthcare, or another highly regulated global organization.
- Experience coaching colleagues and building strategic and operating capability across a team.
Responsibilities
- Translate Responsible Business strategy into governance processes, operating plans, decision pathways, and clear escalation.
- Lead a defined portfolio of complex cross-functional initiatives requiring senior judgment, structured problem-solving, and sustained execution; initial priorities may include the KPI universe, patient-reach methodology, and human rights policy.
- Lead Responsible Business strategy activation and cross-functional governance by aligning priorities, clarifying decisions, mobilizing functional owners, and resolving barriers.
- Identify and lead separately agreed Responsible Business capability-building initiatives requiring senior-level alignment.
- Translate stakeholder insights and assessment findings into strategic options and agreed cross-functional action.
- Develop decision-ready materials and recommendations for executive leaders and governance bodies, and support preparation for selected external and investor engagements.
- Coordinate defined governance and strategic initiatives across Stakeholder Intelligence, Sustainability, Strategic Partnerships, reporting, and communications while preserving each capability lead’s accountability.
- Build time-bound cross-functional teams, establish milestones and accountabilities, resolve delivery barriers, and transition mature work to the appropriate permanent owner.
- Serve as a trusted adviser to the Executive Director and help strengthen the team’s strategic capability, operating discipline, and bench.
- Stabilize Responsible Business governance and critical work during the current leadership transition.
- Support reporting delivery when dependencies require broader strategy or senior cross-functional alignment, without duplicating the reporting owner’s responsibilities.
- Clarify ownership, handoffs, and controls across Public Affairs, Finance, Controllership, Legal, Sustainability, Human Resources, Investor Relations, and other data or policy owners.
- Establish a practical roadmap for future-state Responsible Business systems, governance, and operating capabilities.
- Identify opportunities to simplify or discontinue duplicative processes and transition work to appropriate permanent owners.
- Create inclusion, develop talent, and empower teams through people leadership.
Benefits
- Discretionary annual bonus eligibility.
- Discretionary stock-based long-term incentives; eligibility may vary by role.
- Paid time off.
- Company-sponsored medical insurance.
- Company-sponsored dental insurance.
- Company-sponsored vision insurance.
- Company-sponsored life insurance.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
