Strategic Initiatives Manager
About The Position
The Strategic Initiatives Manager joins Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center’s Enterprise Growth and Business Development team as an individual contributor, partnering with leaders and multidisciplinary teams to guide strategic planning, assess high-impact business opportunities, and support data-driven decisions. The role develops rigorous qualitative and quantitative analyses to inform strategic initiatives and help shape MSK’s direction. The manager supports execution of the enterprise strategic plan, monitors progress toward strategic goals, and enables communication across the organization. They also create executive-ready presentations that translate complex analyses into clear narratives, conduct market and competitor research, and stay current on evidence-based strategic management methods to continuously improve the team’s work. Example areas of focus include forecasting patient activity and resource needs and identifying growth opportunities across prioritized service lines.
Requirements
- Experience in a strategic, consulting, or analytic position.
- Demonstrated skills in strategy development, strategic planning, and/or business development.
- Strong experience with Excel tools and functions, such as Pivot Tables and vLookup.
- Highly developed leadership facilitation, communication, planning, and presentation skills.
- Ability to translate ambiguous information into high-quality analyses supporting enterprise-wide decision-making.
- Critical thinking and problem-solving skills, including strategic thinking, hypothesis development, and high-quality analysis.
- Curiosity, self-motivation, and a desire to help leaders make better decisions.
- Good decision-making skills and a record of making timely decisions that keep an organization moving forward.
- Ability to build partnerships across all levels and collaborate to achieve shared objectives.
- Effective communication skills and the ability to adapt communication to different audiences.
- Willingness to act and embrace new challenges.
Nice To Haves
- Experience with SQL or a dashboarding tool such as Tableau or Power BI.
Responsibilities
- Contribute to diverse teams developing and assessing insights and ideas that advance MSK’s strategy.
- Conduct qualitative and quantitative analyses to inform strategic decisions.
- Translate ambiguous business problems into structured questions, hypotheses, issue frameworks, and synthesized insights.
- Support execution of the enterprise strategic plan, monitor progress toward strategic goals, and facilitate communication across the organization.
- Create executive-ready presentation materials that communicate complex analyses clearly and compellingly.
- Support market-position and competitor analyses, along with other research as needed.
- Research and stay current on evidence-based strategic management methodologies to improve team outcomes.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
Education Level
No Education Listed
