Senior Strategy & Operations Manager

Boehringer Ingelheim; Biberach an der Riß; Hybrid; EUR 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Boehringer Ingelheim is seeking an Experienced professional to join the Computational Innovation PMO, aligning global priorities with operational needs and fast-emerging topics. You will connect with scientific, business, and operational stakeholders to move long-term priorities forward with clarity and momentum.

The role demands strong strategic thinking, executive communication, and the ability to drive structured follow-through across sites in a hybrid setup. English fluency is essential.

Qualifications

• Doctoral degree in life sciences, biomedicine, computational biology or similar.
• Several years of experience in strategy consulting or a comparable strategic role with exposure to senior-level decision-making in pharma R&D or adjacent environments.
• Strong ability to structure ambiguity, maintain cross-topic overviews, and bring clarity to multi-stakeholder environments.
• Outstanding executive communication and storytelling skills, with the ability to synthesize complexity into clear, decision-oriented narratives.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and decision-making skills, with comfort making sound recommendations even with incomplete information.
• Fluency in English, written and spoken.

Responsibilities

• Maintain an overarching view of CI’s strategic priorities, ensuring progress, alignment, and visibility of deliverables across diverse stakeholder groups.
• Steer cross-functional execution work – spanning scientific, operational, and business areas – by providing clarity, alignment, and structured follow-through, leading through influence.
• Prepare high-quality, decision-ready communication, decision, or information materials that distill complex scientific and strategic information into actionable insights for senior leaders.
• Strengthen connectivity across the global CI PMO setup, acting as a unifying point that promotes consistent practices, information flow, and shared understanding across sites.
• Develop and refine approaches for planning, reporting, and governance of CI’s strategic priorities and operational activities, supporting transparency and coordinated execution.
• Support initiative owners and leadership by outlining options, clarifying expectations, assessing trade-offs, and helping navigate ongoing activities and fast-emerging requests.

Skills

Executive communication

Storytelling

Analytical thinking

Decision-making

Ambiguity management

Education

Doctoral degree in life sciences

Job description

The Position

As part of our growing Computational Innovation (CI) (@computationalinnovation) function you can step into a world of digital innovation, data-driven approaches and cutting-edge computational science at Boehringer Ingelheim, where you will be part of a global, multicultural and open-minded team. In this role, you will help keep the organization aligned by bringing together our global strategic priorities and deliverables, everyday operational needs, and rapidly emerging topics that require quick orientation and coordinated execution.

As part of CI’s PMO group, you will play a key role in connecting global PMO activities and supporting the Chief of Staff/Head of PMO and global Head with aligned insights and coordinated follow‑through. Engaging with scientific, business and operational stakeholders, you will help ensure that CI’s most relevant long-term and short-notice priorities move forward with structure, clarity and momentum.

This position has a hybrid setup with approximately 2-3 days per week on-site.

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Tasks & responsibilities

• In your new role, you will maintain an overarching view of CI’s strategic priorities, ensuring progress, alignment, and visibility of deliverables across diverse stakeholder groups.




• You will steer cross-functional execution work – spanning scientific, operational, and business areas – by providing clarity, alignment, and structured follow-through, leading through influence.




• Furthermore, you will prepare high-quality, decision-ready communication, decision, or information materials that distill complex scientific and strategic information into actionable insights for senior leaders.




• You will strengthen connectivity across the global CI PMO setup, acting as a unifying point that promotes consistent practices, information flow, and shared understanding across sites.




• Moreover, you will develop and refine approaches for planning, reporting, and governance of CI’s strategic priorities and operational activities, supporting transparency and coordinated execution.




• In addition, you will support initiative owners and leadership by outlining options, clarifying expectations, assessing trade-offs, and helping navigate both ongoing activities and fast-emerging requests.

Requirements

• Doctoral degree in life sciences, biomedicine, computational biology or similar




• Several years of experience in strategy consulting or a comparable strategic role with exposure to senior-level decision-making in pharma R&D or adjacent environments




• Strong ability to structure ambiguity, maintain cross-topic overviews, and bring clarity to multi-stakeholder environments




• Outstanding executive communication and storytelling skills, with the ability to synthesize complexity into clear, decision-oriented narratives




• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and decision-making skills, with comfort making sound recommendations even with incomplete information




• Fluency in English, written and spoken

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JOB ID

32565

Job function

Research, Project management, Corporate Strategy & Development

Career level

Experienced professionals

Organization

BI Pharma GmbH&Co.KG

Working time

Full-Time

Job flexibility

Hybrid

Boehringer Ingelheim is an equal opportunity global employer who takes pride in maintaining a diverse and inclusive culture. We embrace diversity of perspectives and strive for an inclusive environment, which benefits our employees, patients, and communities. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to a person’s actual or perceived race, including natural hairstyles, hair texture and protective hairstyles; color; creed; religion; national origin; age; ancestry; citizenship status, marital status; gender, gender identity or expression; sexual orientation, mental, physical or intellectual disability, veteran status; pregnancy, childbirth or related medical condition; genetic information (including the refusal to submit to genetic testing) or any other class or characteristic protected by applicable law