Strategic Initiatives Manager

Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center•New York, NY

2d•Hybrid

About The Position

We are seeking a Strategic Initiatives Manager to join our Enterprise Growth and Business Development team! This is an opportunity to shape the future of MSK as a thought leader and project driver by guiding strategic planning, evaluating high-impact business opportunities, and enabling data-driven decisions that fuel growth. In this role, you will partner with leaders to identify and execute strategic priorities while developing rigorous qualitative and quantitative analyses that inform key strategic initiatives. You’ll be part of a team that is passionate about solving complex, meaningful challenges that measurably impact the strategic direction of MSK.

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 (Pivot Tables, vLookup, etc.)
Highly developed leadership facilitation, communication, planning, and presentation skills
Proven ability to take ambiguous information and translate it into high-quality analyses to support enterprise wide decision making
A critical thinker and problem solver with an ability to engage in strategic thinking, hypothesis development, and high-quality analysis
Curiosity, self-motivation, and a strong desire to use your skills to help MSK’s leaders make better decisions
A good decision-maker, with proven success making timely decisions that keep the organization moving forward
Skilled at building partnerships across all levels of the business and working collaboratively with others to meet shared objectives and goals
An effective communicator, capable of determining how to best reach different audiences
Willing to act and eager to embrace new challenges

Nice To Haves

Experience with SQL or a dashboarding tool (Tableau or PowerBI) a plus

Responsibilities

Serve as an individual contributor to diverse teams that are tasked with developing and assessing new insights and ideas that will drive forward our strategy
Conduct high-quality analysis to drive strategic decisions, including the use of both quantitative and qualitative methods
Translate ambiguous business problems into structured questions to drive hypothesis generation, issue structuring, and insight synthesis
Support execution of the enterprise strategic plan, monitor progress toward strategic goals, and enable communication across the organization
Create executive-ready presentation materials that translate complex analyses into clear and compelling narratives
Support the development of market position and competitor analyses, and other research as needed
Research and remain current on existing and evolving evidence-based strategic management methodology to ensure continuous improvement in the outcomes of the team