AD Corporate Strategy

We’re partnered with a commercial-stage biopharmaceutical organization is seeking an Associate Director, Corporate Strategy to help shape and execute strategic priorities across its U.S. business. The company is focused on advancing differentiated science, addressing underserved therapeutic areas in oncology/rare disease
, and keeping patients at the center of strategic decision-making.

The Associate Director, Corporate Strategy will serve as a high-impact member of the Corporate Strategy, Development & Operations leadership team, reporting directly to the Head of U.S. Corporate Strategy. This individual will partner closely with senior leaders across Commercial, Medical, Finance, Insights & Analytics, and Development to translate strategic priorities into actionable business plans across the U.S. portfolio.

This role is ideal for an agile, intellectually curious strategist who can quickly build fluency across disease areas, anticipate opportunities and risks, and synthesize complex business, clinical, and market dynamics into clear executive-ready recommendations. The Associate Director will lead independent work streams end-to-end while also orchestrating cross-functional teams to support growth, decision-making, and long-term business performance.

• Support the design, coordination, and continuous improvement of the U.S. strategic planning cycle and core enterprise deliverables.
• Build strong fluency across disease areas, pipeline and portfolio priorities, and broader market dynamics to ensure strategies are grounded in scientific, clinical, and commercial realities.
• Lead discrete strategic work streams, including problem framing, hypothesis development, workplan design, cross-functional engagement, and final synthesis.
• Identify growth opportunities, strategic trade-offs, and business performance risks, clearly surfacing implications for senior leadership decision-making.

• Pressure-test forecasts and resourcing plans to ensure alignment with U.S. business priorities, vision, and goals.
• Proactively identify risks, sensitivities, and inflection points that could impact business performance.
• Develop high-impact executive presentations that translate rigorous analysis into focused recommendations and decision pathways.
• Generate opportunity assessments and business cases, including ROI, NPV, and breakeven analyses.

• Lead and support cross-functional strategic projects sponsored by the U.S. Leadership Team, often within ambiguous and fast-moving environments.
• Own projects end-to-end, including scoping, framing, analytics, storyline development, decision enablement, and implementation tracking.
• Leverage market, competitive, and internal data to generate actionable insights and well-supported strategic recommendations.
• Design and facilitate strategic workshops, helping cross-functional teams align around priorities, assumptions, risks, and execution plans.
• Continuously evaluate transformation and growth opportunities that can strengthen U.S. business performance and long-term competitive positioning.
• Actively contribute to a high-performing strategy function that operates with speed, clarity, collaboration, and intellectual rigor.
• Model curiosity, agility, accountability, and a bias toward action.
• Support team offsites, annual goal-setting, and budget tracking activities.
• Serve as a visible contributor to a transparent, collaborative, and high-standard team culture.

The ideal candidate will bring a strong combination of strategy consulting, life sciences industry experience, analytical rigor, and executive-level communication skills. This individual should be comfortable operating in ambiguity, influencing without authority, and translating complex information into clear, actionable recommendations for senior leadership.

• Undergraduate degree with a business and science focus required; graduate degree such as an MBA or PhD preferred.
• 7+ years of professional experience, ideally including both strategy consulting and a strategic role…