Manager, Strategic Planning & Executive Decision Support

Job Summary:

Shields Health is seeking a Manager, Strategic Planning & Executive Decision Support to support high-priority strategic initiatives and the development of executive-level presentations and decision materials.

This role will serve as a strategic thought partner to the President, CFO, VP of Strategic Decision Support, and other members of the Executive Team. The Manager will help shape strategic topics, storylines, and messaging for Board, shareholder, leadership, and other key meetings and will own the process of translating those priorities into clear, cohesive, high-quality materials.

The role will also provide strategic support for priority initiatives and ad hoc requests from the President and senior leadership.

The role combines strategic thinking with hands-on execution. In particular, preparation for the Company’s three annual Board meeting cycles is a significant component of the position, with approximately 30 individual meetings occurring during each cycle. During these periods, the Manager will personally drive the detailed coordination required to deliver the materials—including communicating deadlines and reminders, collecting and organizing content from stakeholders, updating and reformatting slides, tracking approvals and revisions, and ensuring final materials are complete and ready on time.

The position sits within Strategic Decision Support alongside FP&A and Business Planning & Market Analysis. The Manager will work closely with these teams, leveraging their financial, operational, market, and business insights to help connect the work across the organization and translate it into effective executive-level communications and decision support.

Job Description:

Reports to:

Vice President, Strategic Decision Support

Location:

Quincy, Massachusetts (Hybrid)
Executive Presentations & Strategic Communications Partner with the President, CFO, VP of Strategic Decision Support, and Executive Team to help shape key topics, messages, questions, and decisions for major meetings and presentations.

Develop presentation storylines, outlines, executive-level slides, and supporting materials for Board, shareholder, leadership, and other strategic meetings.

Synthesize financial, operational, market, and strategic information developed across the organization into concise, decision-oriented executive communications.

Own the end-to-end content-development process for major presentations, including maintaining detailed timelines, communicating deadlines and reminders, tracking deliverables, following up with contributors, and proactively escalating risks to completion.

During Board meeting cycles, coordinate materials across approximately 30 individual meetings, including collecting slides and other inputs from stakeholders, consolidating and reformatting materials, managing revisions, tracking senior leadership review and approval, and ensuring final presentations are complete and ready on schedule.

Coordinate with leaders and functional teams responsible for contributing content, establishing clear expectations and timelines and driving the process through completion.

Integrate materials from multiple contributors into a cohesive presentation, ensuring consistency of messaging, level of detail, data, and overall narrative.

Lead editorial and content-quality review and efficiently incorporate feedback from senior leadership.

Strategic Initiatives & Decision Support Support the President and senior leadership on selected priority strategic initiatives and ad hoc business questions.

Help structure complex or ambiguous business questions, identify the information and analysis needed to inform decisions, and synthesize inputs into clear implications and recommendations.

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