Associate Director, Corporate Strategy

The Importance of the Role

The Associate Director, Corporate Strategy is an intense and important role helping Sarepta deliver on key corporate initiatives. The role will operate within our small internal consulting team that works through diverse projects representing Sarepta's top priorities. The candidate will be deployed across various projects and asked to independently drive and resolve ambiguous problems with limited oversight, bringing strong consulting experience to help deliver the vision of the Executive Committee.

Responsibilities for the team include strategic planning, long range financial planning, portfolio strategy and prioritization, benchmarking initiatives, rapid response initiatives, and various functional strategic projects.

The Opportunity to Make a Difference

• Coordinate strategic planning: Coordinate Sarepta's annual strategic planning efforts with the Head of Corporate Strategy that translates to our overall long range plan and supports Finance through the annual budget planning process
• Monitor competitive landscape: Maintain an understanding of the overall portfolio competitive landscape assuring leaders are aware of current program status both inside and outside our portfolio
• Scope workstreams: Collaborate with project lead to propose goals, scope, workstreams, analytical approach, success measures, required stakeholders, and roles and responsibilities for part of overall project
• Perform analyses: Collaborate with project lead to design and drive analysis to answer key questions, including sources, data analysis, and output format for presentation; ensure stakeholder buy-in; independently drive execution; double check and pressure test results to ensure no mistakes; develop integrated output presentation for part of overall project
• Manage cross-functional projects: Lead project management activities by scheduling and coordinating team meetings, setting objectives and agendas, documenting decisions and action items, identifying and monitoring risks, ensuring senior stakeholder alignment, and tracking progress against goals
• Communicate results: Prepare integrated process- and content-focused slides for project lead; present your content analyses to senior management and lead presentation to smaller groups
• Develop relationships: Independently develop and maintain strong working relationships with employees across all levels of the organization including HR, BD, R&D, CMC, and Commercial partners, with stakeholder interactions extending to executive levels up to and including Sarepta's Executive Committee

More about You

• Strong motivation to help bring transformative treatments to patients
• Requiring BS in technical discipline (MS+ or MBA desired) and 7+ years of professional experience; direct experience in biotech/pharma a must
• Significant previous consulting experience at a top-tier Management Consulting firm
• Must have demonstrated strong consulting experience and the ability to independently drive and resolve ambiguous, complex questions with limited oversight
• Demonstrated ability to communicate with C-suite, ability to synthesize information and present clearly to senior stakeholders
• Must possess a deep understanding of basic business structure and drug development, including basics of each standard function and their interdependency in the drug development process
• Strong drive to proactively push workstreams at all times by maintaining up-to-date list of priorities, action items, and open questions
• Able to perform detailed financial analysis including such as eNPVs, IRRs, and other financial modeling as needed
• Excellent analytical problem-solving skills
• Outstanding work planning and project management capabilities, including scoping and executing projects, developing actionable insights and recommendations
• Must be fully proficient in MS Excel and Power Point and understand how to develop fully dependent GANTT charts
• Track record of forming excellent working relationships at all levels, ability to work cross-functionally
• Eager to learn about all facets of biotech business
• Must be able to travel as business needs arise (routine travel not required)