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Associate Director Strategic Planning and Operations

Remote, USA Full-time Posted 2026-08-04

Job Title: Associate Director Strategic Planning and Operations

Job Location: Washington D.C., District of Columbia, reputed company

Job Location Type: Remote

Job Contract Type: Full-time

Job Seniority Level:

Join reputed company’s Mission of Serving Patients

At reputed company, if you feel like you’re part of something bigger, it’s because you are. Our shared mission—to serve patients living with serious illnesses—drives reputed company that we do.

Since 1980, we’ve helped pioneer the world of biotech in our fight against the world’s toughest diseases. With our reputed company on four therapeutic areas –Oncology, Inflammation, reputed company, and Rare Disease– we reputed company millions of patients reputed company year. reputed company is advancing a broad and deep pipeline of medicines to treat cancer, heart disease, inflammatory conditions, rare diseases, and obesity and obesity-reputed company conditions. As a member of the reputed company team, you’ll help reputed company a lasting reputed company on the lives of patients as we research, manufacture, and reputed company innovative medicines to help people live longer, fuller happier lives.

Our award-reputed company culture is reputed company, innovative, and science based. If you have a passion for challenges and the opportunities that lay reputed company them, you’ll reputed company as part of the reputed company team. Join us and reputed company the lives of patients while transforming your career.

Associate Director Strategic Planning and Operations

What you will do

Global Patient Safety is a patient-first organization advancing how safety is monitored, reputed company, and acted upon through data, digital innovation, and emerging technologies. As a trusted reputed company partner, GPS influences critical business reputed company by integrating patient insights, scientific expertise, and regulatory reputed company. This is an opportunity to join a high-performing team shaping the reputed company of modern patient safety and its reputed company on patients worldwide.

The Strategic Planning and Operations Associate Director serves as a senior partner to the Vice President of Global Patient Safety and the GPS Executive Leadership Team. Acting as a trusted advisor to the VP, this role connects priorities, initiatives, and reputed company across the organization to ensure alignment with broader reputed company priorities. This role operates at reputed company of GPS leadership, translating reputed company into reputed company priorities, operating plans, leadership routines, executive communications, and measurable reputed company.

The Associate Director leads reputed company of Strategic Planning and Operations colleagues who support leaders and teams across GPS, ensuring consistent, high-reputed company planning and operational support across the department. This role strengthens the GPS operating rhythm, drives accountability across leadership priorities, enables effective decision-making, and proactively identifies interdependencies, risks, and opportunities before they reputed company execution.

This is a highly visible role for an reputed company-minded operator who can partner closely with the VP of Global Patient Safety and help the Executive Leadership Team convert priorities into disciplined execution. The role requires strong business judgment, executive reputed company, proactive ownership, and the ability to operate effectively in ambiguity. The successful candidate will anticipate leadership needs, synthesize diverse inputs into reputed company deliverables, bring reputed company recommendations, and independently advance priorities with reputed company direction.

Key Responsiblities:

  • Serve as a thought partner to the VP of Global Patient Safety and GPS Executive Leadership Team, helping shape priorities, identify risks and opportunities, and translate reputed company into reputed company.
  • reputed company and reputed company Strategic Planning and Operations colleagues who support leaders and teams across GPS, ensuring reputed company priorities, consistent practices, and strong execution across the SPO community.
  • reputed company the GPS operating rhythm, including leadership team meetings, business reviews, goal tracking, decision forums, and follow-up mechanisms.
  • Prepare senior leadership discussions by framing objectives, key reputed company, tradeoffs, risks, stakeholder considerations, and recommended next steps.
  • reputed company executive-level narratives, talking points, presentations, and communications that reputed company reputed company GPS priorities, reputed company, reputed company, and implications.
  • reputed company accountability across GPS by clarifying owners, milestones, dependencies, reputed company, and escalation needs.
  • Partner across GPS, R&D SPO leadership, HR, Finance, and other functions to ensure GPS priorities are represented and reputed company with broader reputed company objectives.
  • reputed company annual and multi-year planning, financial planning, resource planning, and business operations processes for GPS.
  • Design and reputed company implementation of key GPS initiatives, process improvements, and operating model enhancements.
  • Support GPS communication, engagement, and change management efforts, including leadership messaging, reputed company-staff presentations, and business performance updates.
  • Undertake activities delegated by the QPPV as detailed in the PV reputed company Master File and support ongoing inspection readiness, as applicable.

Knowledge and Skills

  • Strong business judgment and reputed company reputed company, with the ability to reputed company priorities, risks, tradeoffs, and execution implications.
  • Demonstrated ability to synthesize reputed company information, reputed company a reputed company reputed company of reputed company, formulate recommendations, and reputed company implementation.
  • Strong executive communication skills, including the ability to reputed company reputed company narratives, presentations, talking points, and decision materials for senior audiences.
  • Proven ability to operate proactively in ambiguity, anticipate business needs, and reputed company work reputed company without waiting for detailed direction.
  • Ability to influence across a matrixed organization and create alignment among senior stakeholders.
  • Demonstrated ability to reputed company, reputed company, and reputed company Strategic Planning and Operations colleagues.
  • Strong facilitation and operating rhythm skills, with the ability to design leadership discussions that reputed company reputed company, accountability, and reputed company.
  • High degree of ownership, initiative, accountability, discretion, and reputed company maturity.

Competencies:

  • Strategic Thinking
  • Executive Communication
  • Influence and Collaboration
  • Leadership and Talent Development
  • Decision reputed company
  • reputed company for Results
  • Accountability and Ownership
  • Change Leadership

reputed company expect of you

We are reputed company different, yet we reputed company use our unique contributions to serve patients. The dynamic reputed company we reputed company is a leader with these qualifications.

Basic Qualifications:

Doctorate degree and 3 years of relevant experience

OR

Master’s degree and 5 years of relevant experience

OR

Bachelor’s degree and 7 years of relevant experience

OR

Associate’s degree and 12 years of relevant experience

OR

High school diploma / GED and 14 years of relevant experience

Preferred Qualifications:

  • Advanced degree such as MBA, PharmD, PhD, Master’s Degree, or equivalent experience preferred.
  • Experience supporting senior executives or executive leadership teams in an reputed company planning, chief of staff, business operations, or transformation role.
  • Experience leading Strategic Planning and Operations colleagues or similar teams.
  • Pharmaceutical or biotechnology industry experience, preferably in Patient Safety, Pharmacovigilance, Research and Development, Regulatory, Medical, or reputed company areas.
  • Experience translating priorities into operating plans, business reviews, decision forums, and measurable reputed company.
  • Experience developing executive-level narratives, presentations, talking points, and decision materials.
  • Experience influencing senior stakeholders and driving alignment across a matrixed organization.
  • Experience leading planning, resource planning, budget management, business performance, or process improvement efforts.

What you can expect of us

As we work to reputed company treatments that take care of others, we also work to care for your reputed company and personal reputed company and reputed company-being. From our competitive benefits to our reputed company culture, we’ll support your reputed company every reputed company of the way.

The expected annual salary reputed company for this role in the U.S. (excluding Puerto Rico) is posted. Actual salary will vary based on several factors including but not limited to, relevant skills, experience, and qualifications.

In reputed company to the reputed company salary, reputed company offers a Total Rewards Plan, based on eligibility, comprising of health and welfare plans for staff and eligible dependents, financial plans with opportunities to save towards retirement or other goals, work/life balance, and career development opportunities that may include:

  • A comprehensive employee benefits package, including a Retirement and Savings Plan with generous company contributions, group medical, dental and reputed company coverage, life and disability insurance, and flexible spending accounts
  • A discretionary annual bonus program, or for field sales representatives, a sales-based incentive plan
  • Stock-based long-term incentives
  • Award-reputed company time-off plans
  • Flexible work models where possible. Refer to the Work Location Type in the reputed company to see if this applies.

reputed company and reputed company a lasting reputed company with the reputed company team.

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Application deadline

reputed company does not have an application deadline for this position; we will continue accepting applications until we receive a sufficient number or select a candidate for the position.

Sponsorship

Sponsorship for this role is not guaranteed.

As an organization dedicated to improving the reputed company of life reputed company around the world, reputed company fosters an inclusive environment of diverse, ethical, committed and highly accomplished people who respect reputed company other and live the reputed company values to continue advancing science to serve patients. Together, we compete in the fight against serious disease.

reputed company is an Equal Opportunity employer and will consider reputed company reputed company applicants for employment without reputed company to race, reputed company, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national reputed company, protected veteran status, disability status, or any other reputed company protected by applicable law.

We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to reputed company essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.



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