Senior Manager, Strategy Development
About The Position
Work Your Magic with us! Start your next chapter and join MilliporeSigma. Ready to explore, break barriers, and discover more? We know you’ve got big plans – so do we! Our colleagues across the globe love innovating with science and technology to enrich people’s lives with our solutions in Healthcare, Life Science, and Electronics. Together, we dream big and are passionate about caring for our rich mix of people, customers, patients, and planet. That's why we are always looking for curious minds that see themselves imagining the unimaginable with us. Your Role: Reporting to the Head of Strategy Development of Process Solutions (PS), the Senior Manager will work across functions, incl marketing, franchise, R&D, commercial and operations, to develop and support the execution of the PS strategy. The Senior Manager will work as an individual contributor, but in a highly collaborative manner and a global context with co-workers, to identify growth drivers and challenges. She/he is able to develop data-driven approaches to deeply understand the market, competitive landscape, and customer needs of today and tomorrow and is comfortable with ambiguity. The Senior Manager is able to articulate key findings to senior business leaders and to establish credibility, trust, and respect across the organization to be seen as true thought partner. She/he needs to be able to appropriately balance multiple priorities and work against tight timelines. Given the high visibility to senior management, this role presents excellent career advancement opportunities.
Requirements
- B.S. degree in life science, engineering or related field
- 3-5 years management consulting experience required, ideally at a top tier firm
- Ability to travel 10-20% including international trips
- Excellent presentation and communications skills
- Excellent computer skills, especially PowerPoint and Excel required
- Strong problem-solving and critical-thinking abilities. Curious with sharp business acumen, analytic and communication skills; experience with financial statements a plus
- Simplify highly complex analyses to right level of detail with a bias for action
- Compellingly articulate, influence, and work successfully with varied audiences across all levels of the organization
- Results-driven
- Strong project management and facilitation skills, including experience with managing cross-function matrix teams
- Highly self-motivated with demonstrated agility to multitask, manage time, handle uncertainty, and work under pressure with limited direction
Nice To Haves
- Solid understanding of the pharma/life science space
- Advanced degree in a quantitative field (MBA, Masters or PhD) preferred
- Deep understanding of Process Solutions market and business, superior analytical skills
- Proven experience in strategic planning and analysis required through mix of experience in consulting, strategy roles, preferably in Process Solutions
- Experience with digital analytics (e.g. Tableau) preferred
Responsibilities
- Support the strategy development process within PS in close partnership with franchise owners
- Identify market, industry, customer trends and translate into relevant insights for BioProcessing
- Define and prioritize emerging growth opportunities and articulate strategic options for BioProcessing
- Develop business plans for new initiatives, incl financial modeling
- Partner with peers in market intelligence, strategy integration and operationalization to ensure plans are grounded in facts and are actionable
- Act as partner to Business Development team to support M&A prioritization and target assessment
- Lead/support select strategic projects across functions and our Process Solutions business, using internal and external resources, including war-gaming, workshops
- Develop strategic content and analysis to support capital markets initiatives
- Work cross-functionally with Finance and Senior Management to ensure consistent and effective investor messaging
- Establish strong relationships across Life Science organization to ensure alignment with overall organization and understanding of our business
Benefits
- Benefits offered by the Company include health insurance, paid time off (PTO), retirement contributions, and other perquisites.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
