Director of Business Strategy and Development for Pharmacy & Professional and Support Services

Department Overview

Serves as a strategic advisor to SVP Chief Pharmacy Officer to shape and roll-out strategic roadmaps for

OHSU’s allied health services portfolio, $6 Billion enterprise. This role will drive creation of integrated

strategic plans targeting aggressive regional market growth, facilitate priority-setting, manage high-impact

initiatives, while driving alignment across complex, cross-functional stakeholders, and partners.

 

The primary responsibility of this role is to support pharmacy and professional support services leadership in

development of cascading strategic, tactical and integration plans, and support related change management

strategies across the health system. Key accountabilities are to design and implement plans, monitor process

and performance against plans.

 

This position supports the SVP Chief Pharmacy Officer and interacts with other related senior leaders, such as: VP of Strategic Outreach, Service Line VPs, OPP CEO, Healthcare CEO. Deals with confidential and highly

sensitive information.

Function/Duties of Position

Strategic Planning

• Serve as a senior strategic advisor to Pharmacy and Professional Support Services executive leadership, shaping enterprise priorities and long-range direction for regional market expansion.
• Lead development and execution of enterprise strategies aligned to organizational goals and market dynamics.
• Design and facilitate strategy planning retreats to build buy-in on shared vision, strategic goals, and clear objectives.
• Translate enterprise strategies into a prioritized and funded portfolio of initiatives with clear governance and decision-making frameworks
• Drive cross-functional alignment, facilitate trade-off decisions to maintain focus onthe highest-value opportunities. 
• Structure complex challenges and synthesize data into actionable insights and strategic recommendations for executive decision-making and prioritization.
• Ensure initiatives grounded in rigorous business case conclusions, with defined scope, success metrics, and validated feasibility for implementation.
• Establish planning cadence, governance structures, and performance frameworks to drive accountability and sustained results 
• Lead high-impact, enterprise-wide initiatives requiring executive engagement and alignment
• Oversee development of integrated strategic roadmaps and execution plans aligning strategy, operations, and delivery
• Manage portfolios and cross-functional initiatives to ensure measurable outcomes aligned with strategic objectives

Portfolio Management and Roadmap Development

• Partner with SVP/Chief Pharmacy Officer to translate enterprise strategies into actionable roadmaps with defined requirements, sequencing, and dependencies. Coordinate across all business lines of the enterprise portfolio.
• Lead portfolio governance for transparent prioritization and decision-making. Balance strategic objectives and pace to operational capacity – reconcile trade-offs.
• Develop portfolio management structures and processes to guide goals, strategies, and outcomes. Maintain comprehensive portfolio-view across all business lines.
• Guide scoping of complex initiatives – validate alignment to executive direction.
• Assess strategy feasibility - anticipate risks and gaps. Create contingency plans to adapt strategies to changing conditions while maintaining directional integrity.
• Proactively identify and remove barriers to team performance, ensuring forward momentum and timely delivery of results. 
• Ensure initiative quality: clear scope, practical timelines, business requirements, measurable outcomes.
• Deploy fit-for-purpose governance structures to drive enterprise-level and business line specific initiatives and maintain alignment to strategic objectives. Reconcile competing demands and balance constraints.
• Influence cross-functional teams and leaders to ensure timely completion of deliverables.
• Design and deploy problem solving methodologies to define and resolve highly complex issues. 
• Establish effective communication, escalation, and feedback channels to enable rapid issue resolution and informed decision-making.
• Create mechanisms to systematically plan, track, and report progress against immediate and long-range goals. Link progress to measurable outcomes.
• Provide senior leadership clear, data-driven insights on portfolio performance, risks, and outcomes. Create executive-level presentations and visuals that demonstrate progress towards strategic goals.
• Drive transparency through structured communication rhythms and reporting frameworks. Create a communications calendar around strategic initiati