Senior Director, Business Planning & Operations, SMM

What you'll do

• Serve as chief of staff to the SMM Head, running leadership meetings, preparing decision materials, and tracking decisions and actions.
• Lead SMM annual and medium-term planning, including scorecards, budget and capacity proposals, productivity targets, and performance and risk reporting.
• Support transformation, organizational change, leadership communications, and strategic initiatives across BPCO and R&D.

What they ask for

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience in life sciences, business administration, engineering, or a related field.
• At least 12 years’ experience in the pharmaceutical industry or a CRO, including substantial clinical operations experience and understanding of site management, monitoring, and country-level study delivery.
• Proven experience in a chief of staff, business planning & operations, strategy, or similar role supporting a senior executive in a large, global matrix organisation.
• Experience leading annual business planning and solid understanding of budgeting, FTE and capacity modelling, and portfolio-driven resourcing.

Nice to have

• Advanced degree (e.g. MBA, MSc or PhD).
• Experience leading operating model change, organisational design or restructuring in global clinical operations.

Pay

$189,232.80 - $283,849.20 USD Annually (base salary)

AI focus

AI, digital or data-driven transformation of clinical trial delivery is listed as desirable experience; the role also supports transformation initiatives.