Senior Director, Corporate Strategy; San Diego​/Hybrid

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Position Title:

Senior Director, Corporate Strategy Function:
Enterprise Strategy

Location:

San Diego, California (Hybrid). This is a full-time role, Monday through Friday, with an expectation of 2-3 in-office days per week and additional on-site presence as needed. The individual must reside in the San Diego area and be able to commute to our corporate offices. Relocation assistance is available and should be completed within a twelve (12) month period or a mutually agreed upon time.

Reports To:

Vice President, Enterprise Strategy FLSA Status:
Exempt

Position Summary:

The Senior Director, Corporate Strategy is a senior member of the Enterprise Strategy team who leads some of Illumina’s most consequential enterprise strategy efforts and serves as a trusted strategic advisor to senior executives. The role helps define Illumina’s long-term direction and strategic priorities, converts ambiguous leadership questions into clearly framed decisions, builds the fact base needed to evaluate alternatives, and develops recommendations that make major choices and trade-offs explicit.

Operating in a global, matrixed, science- and technology-driven environment, the Senior Director independently leads high-stakes work involving the Executive Leadership Team (ELT) and, when appropriate, the Board. The role integrates market, customer, scientific, technology, competitive, operational, and financial perspectives; maintains an independent enterprise point of view; and leads through influence across R&D, Product, Commercial, Finance, Corporate Development, Medical, Operations, and regional leadership.

Business and functional leaders own execution;
Corporate Strategy supports decision clarity, alignment, and follow-through without owning enterprise transformation or day-to-day implementation.

• Lead enterprise strategy development.
• Help define and evolve Illumina’s long-term direction and enterprise strategic priorities.
• Translate market, customer, scientific, technology, competitive, and financial developments into implications for Illumina, and connect enterprise aspirations to a coherent set of strategic choices.
• Frame ambiguous executive decisions.
• Convert broad or unclear leadership concerns into defined decisions, meaningful alternatives, decision criteria, and focused analytical workplans.
• Identify the questions that matter most rather than accepting a predetermined scope.
• Lead high-priority strategic initiatives.
• Independently lead cross-enterprise strategy efforts sponsored by the CEO, Executive Team, or Vice President, Enterprise Strategy—from initial framing through recommendation and executive decision. Topics may include growth strategy, business-model evolution, new-market entry, technology disruption, competitive response, enterprise capability choices, or other major strategic questions.
• Build a trusted enterprise fact base.
• Integrate market models, customer insight, competitive intelligence, scientific and technology perspectives, internal performance, and financial analysis. Pressure-test assumptions,…