Senior Manager, Strategy Development

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Work Your Magic with us! Ready to explore, break barriers, and discover more? We know you’ve got big plans – so do we! Our colleagues across the globe love innovating with science and technology to enrich people’s lives with our solutions in Healthcare, Life Science, and Electronics. Together, we dream big and are passionate about caring for our rich mix of people, customers, patients, and planet. That`s why we are always looking for curious minds that see themselves imagining the unimageable with us.
Reporting to the Head of Strategy and Market Insights of Process Solutions (PS), the Strategy Development Manager will work across functions, including marketing, franchise, R&D, commercial and operations, to develop and support the execution of the Process Solutions strategy.
The Strategy Development Manager will work as an individual contributor in a highly collaborative manner and a global context with co-workers to identify growth drivers. You are able to develop data-driven approaches to deeply understand the market, competitive landscape, and customer needs of today and tomorrow and is comfortable with ambiguity.
The Strategy Development Manager is able to articulate key findings to senior business leaders and to establish credibility, trust, and respect across the organization to be seen as a true thought partner. You will need to be able to appropriately balance multiple priorities and work against tight timelines. Given the high visibility to senior management, this role presents excellent career advancement opportunities.
Key Responsibilities
Support the strategy development process within PS in close partnership with the business
Identify market, industry, customer trends and translate into relevant insights for BioProcessing
Define and prioritize emerging growth opportunities and articulate strategic options for BioProcessing
Develop business plans for new initiatives, including financial modeling
Partner with peers in market intelligence, strategy, and business operations to ensure plans are grounded in facts and are implementable
Act as partner to Business Development team to support M&A prioritization and target assessment
Lead/support select strategic projects across functions and our Process Solutions business, using internal and external resources,
Establish strong relationships across MilliporeSigma Life Science to ensure alignment with overall organization and understanding of our business
Impact a range of strategic customer, operational, or service priorities within own team and other related teams
Location for this role can be either for US, EU, Singapore
Education and Experience
B.A. or B.S. degree (or equivalent) in life science or engineering required
Advanced degree in a quantitative field (MBA, Masters or PhD) preferred
At least 3 years of experience required
At least 2 years of Management consulting experience required, ideally at a top tier firm
Solid understanding of the pharma/life science space required
Location
This is a site based role, located in our Burlington, MA office and requires a weekly onsite presence. We do offer a hybrid flexible work arrangement.
Skills
Deep understanding of Process Solutions market and business
Proven experience in strategic planning and analysis required through mix of experience in consulting, strategy roles, preferably in Process Solutions
Superior analytical skills, strong problem-solving and critical-thinking abilities
Sharp business acumen, experience with financial statements a plus