Remote Senior Corporate Strategist

As a Senior Corporate Strategist on our Corporate Strategy team, you will further develop innovative diagnostic and information technology solutions for veterinarians, ranchers and pet owners. We execute on strategy serving over 10,000 people in over 170 countries, supporting and driving key decisions through individual strategic projects and analysis.

You must live within a reasonable driving distance of Westbrook, Maine. This is a hybrid position and you will be expected to be based at the Westbrook headquarters 2-3 days per week.

• Help drive the company's strategic planning process and corporate strategy efforts, including driving individual strategic projects and global and regional market analyses.
• Leverage unique datasets to model and translate data into critical business insights that form the basis of key decisions across the organization.
• Work with cross‑functional teams to generate insights that shape IDEXX’s overall strategy.
• Address and solve unclear problems for our company, customers and markets, particularly in technology markets and emerging markets.
• Execute high‑priority strategic projects such as adjacent market assessments and cross‑functional initiatives to drive business growth, including structuring complex business problems, analyzing and synthesizing relevant data, project planning, design, management, execution and delivery of recommendations.
• Maintain and update core annual market analyses and design and execute creative individual market analyses, including analysis of customers, competitors, suppliers, distributors, technologies and potential industry entrants to support ad‑hoc development of business areas and corporate strategies.
• Develop rigorous statistical analysis and financial models to estimate market size opportunities (adjacent regions, expansion, etc.).
• Translate market insights into actionable recommendations for senior management to support strategic planning, product development, pricing strategy and market expansion efforts.
• Collaboratively lead the company's strategic planning process and execution, storyboard and analyze strategic plans as needed, and assist in developing content and materials for board presentations.
• Engage, influence and build strong relationships with executives across business units and regions (Europe, Asia Pacific) to answer the organization’s most important strategic questions, and work with Investor Relations on content development for investor communications.
• Mentor junior members of the Corporate Strategy team by fostering a culture of continuous learning, growth mindset, collaboration and innovation.

• Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, Marketing, Economics or a related field. MBA or higher degree preferred.
• Professional experience in a consulting firm preferred.
• Direct experience in corporate strategy, strategic planning, management consulting, or a related role (retail or consumer products industry preferred).

• Lead strategic projects and initiatives with a deep understanding of strategic planning methodologies and frameworks.
• Extract complex data to generate actionable insights and strategic recommendations.
• Excellent communication, facilitation and persuasion skills with the ability to effectively present findings and recommendations to senior leaders and cross‑functional stakeholders.
• Critical thinking, forecasting market trends and identifying opportunities for business growth and differentiation.
• Adapt quickly to changing resource requirements, optimally utilize available resources and utilize resources creatively.
• Prioritize workload and manage multiple deliverables.
• Work with business leaders and apply a long‑term perspective to the strategic positioning of the IDEXX company.
• Excellent financial modeling skills.
• Knowledge of Microsoft Office, especially PowerPoint and Excel.

If you are a strategic thinker with a passion for driving business growth and shaping corporate strategy in the animal health industry, we welcome you to join the IDEXX team and make a meaningful difference in other people's lives. That means improving the standard of care for animals in the world; meeting the needs of our customers and ensuring access to clean water around the world.