Business & Strategy & Portfolio Senior Specialist

Location:

Winchester Place, Durham, North Carolina, United States

Working model:
Hybrid, with an average minimum of three days per week in the office

Are you ready to turn analysis into action and see your influence accelerate medicines to patients? Do you want to sit at the point where strategy, data, and executive decision‑making converge? Based in Winchester Place, Durham, North Carolina, this role partners with Clinical Operations leaders to frame the questions that steer our portfolio, translate complex data into clear, executive‑ready choices, and drive decisions that improve speed and certainty across development.

Reporting to the Strategic Analytics and Enablement Lead, you will shape how senior leaders see the business and where they focus next—ensuring the right insights arrive at the right moment to move our pipeline forward.

• Strategic Decision Support:
  Partner with senior business stakeholders to frame high‑impact questions, define success metrics, and structure the decisions that most influence portfolio outcomes.
• Executive‑Ready Analytical Translation:
  Turn complex, cross‑functional clinical operations data into concise narratives, clear options, and defensible recommendations that leaders can act on with confidence.
• Stakeholder Engagement and Influence:
  Communicate trade‑offs, challenge assumptions, and align delivery with strategic priorities; influence roadmaps and shape thinking at the VP level and above.
• AI‑Enabled Decision Support:
  Apply modern analytics and responsible AI methods—including LLM‑based tools and agentic workflows where appropriate—to accelerate scenario planning, risk/benefit trade‑offs, and portfolio prioritization.
• BI Product Delivery:
  Design and iterate scalable Power BI products, partnering with technical teams to ensure robust semantic models and intuitive UX that enable confident self‑service across the business.
• Portfolio Insight Scaling:
  Standardize effective solutions and scale them across use cases, reducing duplication and accelerating value realization across Clinical Operations.
• Quality, Ethics, and Reproducibility:
  Balance speed‑to‑insight with rigor, auditability, and governance; uphold responsible data and model practices.
• Adoption and Change Enablement:
  Champion adoption, coordinate training, and track realized value; iterate based on stakeholder feedback to continuously sharpen decision‑support products.

• Bachelor's degree in Business, Analytics, Data Science, Life Sciences, Economics, Computer Science, Information Systems, or a related field.
• 3+ years of relevant experience in strategy, consulting, business analytics, portfolio management, or decision‑support analytics.
• Proven experience partnering with senior stakeholders to co‑create and deliver analyses that inform strategic and business decisions.
• Strong structured problem‑solving skills, with the ability to frame ambiguous business questions and drive them to clear recommendations.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to explain trade‑offs, limitations, and recommendations clearly and credibly to executive audiences.
• Working proficiency in Power BI, with the ability to design intuitive dashboards and partner effectively with technical teams on semantic modeling, DAX, and performance.
• Demonstrated ability to balance speed‑to‑insight with rigor, quality, and reproducibility.
• Comfort applying analytics tools, including AI‑enabled approaches where appropriate, with sound judgment around quality, ethics, and governance.

• Experience in management consulting, ideally within a life sciences or healthcare practice.
• Experience in pharmaceutical, biotech, or clinical operations strategy, analytics, or portfolio functions.
• Prior experience presenting recommendations to VP‑level stakeholders and above.
• Master's degree (MBA, MS in Analytics, or related) preferred.
• Familiarity with SQL, ETL pipelines, cloud environments, Agile delivery, BI/AI governance, responsible AI practices, model monitoring, and change management.

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