Director, Corporate Affairs, Strategy & Business Operations

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Position Summary

The Director, Strategy & Business Operations, will play a pivotal role in leading strategic projects and managing day-to-day operations for the Corporate Affairs team. This role will have responsibility for providing strategic support for corporate affairs initiatives, managing operational priorities, and leading impactful projects. This position will work across Corporate Affairs, and with counterparts across the function, to ensure a consistent approach to projects and initiatives that have broad organizational impact. In addition, this role will support communications for the Executive Vice President of Corporate Affairs, including day-to-day communications and broader organizational messaging.

Reporting to the Senior Director of Strategy and Business Operations for Corporate Affairs, the Director, Strategy and Business Operations, will drive the implementation of the corporate affairs strategic plan.

Key responsibilities include:

Strategy and Insights

• Drives effective implementation of the corporate affairs strategy
• Ensures that strategies are clearly understood by all stakeholders and that the organization is achieving its strategic goals at the optimum pace
• Provides strategic insights and recommendations to senior leadership to support decision-making and drive continuous improvement

Governance, Capabilities & Processes

• Executes an ongoing department governance framework for a global function that is timely, efficient and promotes collaboration, information sharing, and best practices
• Accountable for continual process improvement, reducing inefficient processes and unnecessary work across the department; streamlines to remove costs where possible
• Provides support with the annual planning process to ensure alignment with department strategy and key business partners

Project Management, Planning & Logistics

• Leads culture and employee engagement-related initiatives that benefit the function, partnering closely with HR
• Coordinates organizational bi-weekly updates to the Board of Directors
• Oversees the planning and execution of key corporate affairs projects, ensuring they are delivered on time and within budget

Leadership Communications

• Supports the overall strategy for leadership comms across corporate affairs for the Executive Vice President of Corporate Affairs
• Prepares communications associated with town halls and internal/external engagements, ensuring a strategic lens

Qualifications & Experience

• 12+ years of demonstrated experience in strategy and operations; corporate affairs and pharmaceutical experience preferred.
• Superior verbal and interpersonal communications skills, as well as strong presentation and facilitation skills; communications background preferred.
• Excellent writing and research skills, with a keen attention to detail.
• Strong strategic planning, process management and business planning skills.
• High level of integrity and professionalism, with a demonstrated commitment to confidentiality and handling sensitive information with discretion.
• Skilled in use of SharePoint, the Cloud, OneDrive, Excel and other contemporary tools.
• Demonstrates learning agility. Ability to quickly learn and operate within a complex, fast-paced and changing environment.
• Ability to meet tight deadlines.
• Bachelor’s degree required.
• Ability to set and deliver in dynamic, rapidly evolving environment; ability to think critically about issues and understand context and likely challenges.