Sr. AD, Internal Consulting

Compensation Data

The base salary range for this position is $170,000 to $269,000. The position may be eligible for a role‑specific discretionary bonus, relocation, and/or other compensation elements. We continuously review market data and may adjust salary ranges as needed in the future. Actual compensation will be based on job‑related factors such as skills, experience, and qualifications, and other factors permitted by law.

As an employee of Boehringer Ingelheim, you will actively contribute to the discovery, development, and delivery of our products to patients and customers. Our global presence offers opportunities for international collaboration, visibility, and the chance to directly contribute to the company's success. We recognize that our competitive advantage lies in our people and support a healthy working environment, meaningful work, mobility, networking, and work‑life balance.

Our compensation and benefit programs reflect Boehringer Ingelheim’s high regard for our employees.

This role is based on‑site at our Ridgefield, CT location with hybrid flexibility of 2‑3 days per week on‑site.

The Senior Associate Director, Internal Consulting serves as an internal consultant to manage and lead large-scale, highly complex, strategic, innovative, transformational, and performance‑enhancement programs and projects across multiple functional areas.

• Business / Innovation & AI strategy
• Organizational design
• Process engineering & optimization
• Capability enhancement/expansion
• Analysis / benchmarking

• Strong influence on strategic direction of the project, presenting recommendations to senior leadership (CMC, HPLT, TALT)
• Contributes to and influences senior management decision‑making, coordination, and liaison with multiple business areas
• Ensures that the team has all relevant internal and external context, using extensive business judgment and political sensitivity to develop recommendations
• Oversees strategic management consulting together with stakeholder and sponsor management across all project stages, ensuring full alignment between ongoing strategic consulting projects and the overall US HP Strategy
• Assists with and co‑develops key internal IC processes, such as case study development, knowledge management, training, and capability, playbook, and toolkit development
• Cultivates a pipeline of prioritized projects that are aligned to the CMC and HPLT priorities by serving as a trusted liaison to senior leaders and partnering to identify future needs
• Scopes individual engagements by defining objectives, required deliverables, resource needs, timelines, and budgets, as appropriate
• Contributes to prioritization and resourcing decisions for proposed projects, ensuring strategic relevance for Boehringer and alignment with US business priorities
• Serves as a resource to guide business sponsors to appropriate external support when required
• Identifies and raises risks with clearly proposed solutions/actions to project and leadership teams to ensure success and garner support for changes in scope, schedule, or budget
• Develops, in conjunction with cross‑functional stakeholders/groups, a change‑management and communications plan as appropriate for each project to assist with implementation

• Bachelor’s degree required; MBA preferred
• Minimum of seven (7) years of progressive experience in finance, commercial, or business development focused on project planning & leading strategic initiatives in the pharmaceutical, life sciences consulting, and/or management consulting industry
• Three-plus (3+) years of project management experience required
• Management consulting experience preferred
• Well‑developed strategic thinking and problem‑solving skills
• Demonstrated ability to manage budgets and resources
• Demonstrated ability to achieve results in a highly matrixed organization
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Experience with agile ways of working
• Proficiency in MS Office required; demonstrated ability to build high‑impact PowerPoint slides preferred
• Ability to travel (may include overnight travel)

• Must be legally authorized to work in the United States without restriction
• Must be willing to take a drug test and post‑offer physical (if required)
• Must be 18 years of age or older