Associate Director, Strategic Planning_

North Wales

**Job Description**

The Global Vaccines Strategy group is responsible for asking and answering questions critical to our business success and public health goals. In this function, we serve at the intersection of the enterprise to deliver clarity on important choices to ensure our long-term leadership in Vaccines. In this role, you will have the unique opportunity to evolve cross divisional strategy to protect current and future generations from preventable infectious diseases. The Associate Director will be responsible for leading and supporting several high impact strategic projects across the Vaccines business. In addition, the Associate Director will have the opportunity to support our New Products group as they work to build the commercial strategy for the next generation of our vaccine pipeline.

**As a team:**

+ We help to tackle the _most significant cross- cutting business questions_ for our Company's Global Vaccines organization, working closely across franchises, divisions (MRL, MMD, HH), and geographies to bring clear answers to these questions

+ We drive _alignment and collaboration_ across-divisions (enterprise) throughout the development, recommendations and delivery of strategies.

+ We create _objective fact-based_ business strategies resulting in explicit choices and clear priorities that maximize our competitive advantage

+ We believe in high impact solutions derived from _data analytics and insights_ to provide clear strategic choices

+ We _lean in_ to ambiguity and uncertainty to provide well-reasoned and principled based recommendations to key business challenges

**Primary Activities include and may not limited to:**

+ Drive strategy development across several complex ambiguous challenges and opportunities

+ Frame business case, trade-off choices, and risks

+ Create a clear set of choices, told with an effective narrative

+ Build models and analyses that inform strategic decisions

+ Work closely with senior leadership on a frequent basis on our key priorities

+ Build cross-disciplinary network and understanding to enable strategic decision making

+ Promote transparency and visibility to work, risks, and opportunities

+ Build strong, open and collaborative working relationships among leadership, peers, and support teams within and outside the organization

+ Build strong value proposition, narrative, and launch strategy for early commercial assets

+ Contribute to and help shape the strategic direction of commercial programs through active participation within our Global cross-divisional Team, and other forums with regional leaders

**Qualifications:**

**Minimum Requirements:**

+ Bachelor’s Degree

+ Minimum of 5 years’ experience in pharmaceutical based roles

+ The ability to build strategy from white space in a collaborative manner with diverse stakeholders

+ Strong executive presence and communication skills with the ability to speak with candor

+ Demonstrated leadership skills and ability to align various stakeholders to a common goal

+ Confidence to work independently and successfully navigate a team through ambiguity

+ Strong understanding of compliance-related concepts and application in all job-related functions

+ Excellent data analysis and insight generation skillset

+ Willingness to work on an agile team, with shared goals and accountability

+ Advanced skills in PowerPoint, Excel, and MS Teams

+ Able and willing to travel 10 - 15% domestic & international

+ Able to work at the North Wales, Pennsylvania (North Wales) office at least 3 days per week

**Preferred Experience and Skills:**

+ MBA or master's in public health or related field

+ Local and/or regional in-market experience

+ Experience across multiple functions/divisions within our Company or related pharma company

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In accordance with Managers' Policy - Job Posting and Employee Placement, all employees subject to this policy are required to have a minimum of twelve (12) months of service in current position prior to applying for open positions.

If you have been offered a separation benefits package but have not yet reached your separation date and are offered a position within the salary and geographical parameters as set forth in the Summary Plan Description (SPD) of your separation package, then you are no longer eligible for your separation benefits package. To discuss in more detail, please contact your HRBP or Talent Acquisition Advisor.

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**Employees working in roles that the Company determines require routine collaboration with external stakeholders, such as customer-facing commercial, or research-based roles, will be expected to comply not only with Company policy but also with policies established by such external stakeholders (for example, a requirement to be vaccinated against COVID-19 in order to access a facility or meet with stakeholders). Please understand that, as permitted by applicable law, if you have not been vaccinated against COVID-19 and an essential function of your job is to call on external stakeholders who require vaccination to enter their premises or engage in face-to-face meetings, then your employment may pose an undue burden to business operations, in which case you may not be offered employment, or your employment could be terminated. Please also note that, where permitted by applicable law, the Company reserves the right to require COVID-19 vaccinations for positions, such as in Global Employee Health, where the Company determines in its discretion that the nature of the role presents an increased risk of disease transmission.**

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**Employee Status:**

Regular

**Relocation:**

Domestic

**VISA Sponsorship:**

No

**Travel Requirements:**

10%

**Flexible Work Arrangements:**

Hybrid

**Shift:**

1st - Day

**Valid Driving License:**

No

**Hazardous Material(s):**

n/a

**Job Posting End Date:**

07/9/2024

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**Job Posting End Date:** 07/16/2024

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**Requisition ID:** R300788