Senior Director, Portfolio Strategy, Business Planning & Insights

Job Description

This role is the strategic planning and business insights leader for the GI business. The role is responsible for integrating enterprise business planning, portfolio strategy, market intelligence, competitive insights, and strategic analytics to support informed decision-making, investment prioritization, and long-term business growth. As the leader of the enterprise strategic planning process, the Senior Director partners with Business Unit leaders to develop integrated business plans, evaluate strategic alternatives, assess portfolio performance, and identify opportunities to accelerate growth. Through rigorous market analysis, competitive intelligence, customer insights, and scenario planning, the role provides an objective, enterprise-wide perspective that enables leadership to anticipate market shifts, optimize portfolio investments, and align resources with strategic priorities. The Senior Director serves as the organization's center of excellence for portfolio analytics, market and competitive intelligence, and strategic business insights. While the role provides strategic guidance and recommendations across the enterprise, accountability for Business Unit strategy and commercial execution remains with Business Unit leadership. Success in this role is measured by the quality of strategic insights, effectiveness of the business planning process, strength of portfolio recommendations, and the ability to influence executive decisions through fact-based analysis that drives sustainable business performance. 

Job Duties

• Provide enterprise portfolio analysis and decision support to the SVP and leadership team to optimize investment decisions, resource allocation, and long-term business performance.
• Develop portfolio assessments, business cases, and scenario analyses to evaluate strategic opportunities and investment priorities.
• Monitor portfolio performance and recommend actions to maximize growth, profitability, and strategic alignment.
• Facilitate cross-business portfolio reviews to ensure alignment with enterprise priorities and market opportunities.
• Lead the development of market intelligence and customer insights that support business planning, portfolio decisions, and commercial strategy.
• Conduct market sizing, segmentation, forecasting, and trend analyses to identify growth opportunities and emerging market dynamics.
• Analyze customer needs, market adoption, and commercial performance to provide actionable recommendations to executive leadership.
• Develop executive dashboards and key performance indicators that monitor market performance and business health.
• Establish and maintain a comprehensive competitive intelligence capability, monitoring competitor strategies, product launches, pricing, acquisitions, and market positioning.
• Provide timely competitive assessments and strategic implications for leadership decision-making.
• Identify competitive risks, market disruptions, and emerging industry trends that may impact business performance.
• Lead enterprise scenario planning and strategic analyses to evaluate potential market developments, business risks, and growth opportunities.
• Conduct ecosystem scanning to identify emerging technologies, healthcare trends, adjacent markets, and external factors influencing future portfolio decisions.
• Translate complex market, competitive, financial, and operational data into clear, actionable insights and executive recommendations.
• Support executive leadership with strategic assessments that inform investment priorities and long-term business planning.
• Lead enterprise scena