Senior Manager Strategic Initiatives

Broadstone Resourcing; City Of London; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A global healthcare company in Central London seeks a Senior Manager of Strategic Initiatives to lead key projects and partnerships. The role involves managing strategic projects, ensuring deliverables, and driving business value. Candidates should have experience in consulting or strategy within healthcare, excellent analytical skills, and financial acumen. This position offers an opportunity to impact strategy and operations significantly.

Qualifications

• Previous work experience in consulting, business development, or strategy in healthcare or relevant industries.
• Ability to evaluate industry trends and recommend strategies.
• Experience with financial planning and capital allocation.

Responsibilities

• Facilitates business problem solving and creates recommendations.
• Manages strategic projects end-to-end, ensuring deliverables.
• Drives work components to completion with commercial teams.

Skills

Strategic Thinking

Analytical Rigor

Project Management

Financial Acumen

Communications Skills

Healthcare Knowledge

Job description

My client, a global healthcare company based in Central London, is looking to recruit a Senior Manager Strategic Initiatives will be responsible for driving key strategic initiatives by partnering with the commercial teams and with broader organisation.

In this role, this individual will support the global team as well as business unit teams in identifying as well as delivering high priority strategic projects related to business expansion, new sourcing approaches, business improvement, and other opportunities.

Key responsibilities

• Facilitates business problem solving through structured hypotheses, detailed analyses, and synthesised insights leading to recommendations to senior management
• Identifies, scopes and manages strategic projects end-to-end; maintains responsibility for deliverables and timelines, shifting priorities as needed; manages stakeholder relationships and expectations
• Partner with the business stakeholder to execute and operationalise the projects to deliver financial value to the business
• Provides project ownership to successfully transition strategic priorities from concept to sustainable operating initiatives that yield expected value
• Conducts external research/data gathering and analysis
• Drives discrete components of work and analysis to successful completion, working with commercial teams, finance and analytics to identify and deliver value
• Creates high-quality presentations/deliverables for various internal and external audiences

Key skills

• Previous work experience ideally within consulting, business development or strategy preferably within the healthcare or consumer industries or relevant industry experience
• Strategic Thinking: evaluating industry trends, developing long-term implications and recommending pragmatic strategies for new business opportunities
• Analytical Rigor: ability to bring structure to ill-defined problems and intellectual leadership to problem solving; synthesize insights from analysis and ensure credible, actionable recommendations
• Project Management: Ability to establish project management frameworks and keep strategy projects on track including stakeholder management
• Financial Acumen: understanding of financial modelling and experience with financial planning, budgeting and capital allocation in the context of strategic planning to maximize shareholder value
• Communications Skills: ability to develop rapport and credibility across the organization, promote ideas and proposals persuasively
• Healthcare Knowledge: knowledge of players, trends, economic drivers, tools and policy across healthcare

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