Senior Director, Portfolio Congress Strategy

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The Senior Director, Portfolio Congress Strategy provides enterprise-level leadership and strategic direction for the design, evolution, and governance of the enterprise congress model across therapeutic areas. Reporting to the Executive Director, Congress Excellence, this role serves as the strategic architect and recognized governance authority for a transparent, integrated, and value-driven approach that connects congress strategy, planning, execution and insights across Medical Affairs, Clinical Development, Commercial, Corporate Affairs, Finance, and other enabling functions.

This strategy-led individual contributor role operates with broad autonomy and sustained engagement with senior leaders to shape governance standards, operating models, prioritization approaches, and executive-ready recommendations that influence how congress strategy is advanced, governed, and optimized globally.

The role requires advanced strategic judgment, consultative rigor, and the ability to lead through influence—bringing structure to ambiguity, resolving complex cross-functional challenges, and driving enterprise decisions across Medical and broader business stakeholders without direct authority.

Key Responsibilities

Portfolio Governance & Strategy

• Provide accountability for the enterprise congress portfolio governance framework, including decision rights, operating rhythms, and planning principles

• Define and evolve the multi-year congress portfolio strategy across therapeutic areas, aligning to enterprise priorities, TA needs, and external congress dynamics

• Translate complex portfolio questions into strategic choices, trade-offs, risks, dependencies, and decision-ready recommendations for senior leadership

Enterprise Engagement & Influence

• Lead high-visibility, cross-functional engagement across Medical Affairs, Clinical Development, Commercial, Corporate Affairs, Finance, Market Access, and enabling functions

• Drive senior-level alignment and accountability across stakeholders, ensuring clear decisions, commitments, timelines, and outcomes

• Represent Congress Excellence in enterprise forums and developing communications that drive clarity, alignment, and action

Resource Strategy & Portfolio Decision-Making

• Partner with Finance and senior leaders to guide congress investment strategy and portfolio decisions within the enterprise congress model, including portfolio investment planning, allocation decisions, and transparent resource trade-offs

• Integrate congress governance cadence and operating model with enterprise planning cycles, leadership reviews, and financial and operational planning processes

• Lead planning discussions that surface competing priorities early, strengthen linkage between congress strategy, spend, and enterprise impact, and drive balanced decisions

Insights, Performance & Innovation

• Develop enterprise-quality governance infrastructure, including decision logs, templates, trackers, KPIs, and impact measures

• Synthesize portfolio, operational, financial, and impact inputs into concise executive-level narratives that support governance, prioritization, and decision-making

• Identify opportunities to evolve the congress model through innovation, analytics, digital tools, and AI-enabled approaches

• Bachelor’s degree required; advanced degree preferred in a relevant business, science, or healthcare field

• 10–15+ years in strategy, Medical Affairs, congre