Senior Manager Strategic Initiatives

Broadstone Resourcing; London; On-site; GBP 125,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player seeks a Senior Manager of Strategic Initiatives to lead high-impact projects that drive business expansion and improvement. This role involves collaborating with commercial teams and stakeholders to identify strategic opportunities and deliver actionable insights. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in consulting or strategy, particularly within healthcare, and possess exceptional analytical and project management skills. Join this dynamic team to make a significant impact on strategic priorities and financial value creation in a global healthcare setting.

Qualifications

• Previous experience in consulting, business development, or strategy, ideally in healthcare.
• Strong project management skills and financial acumen are essential.

Responsibilities

• Drive key strategic initiatives and manage projects end-to-end.
• Facilitate business problem solving and create high-quality presentations.

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 who will be responsible for driving key strategic initiatives by partnering with the commercial teams and the broader organization.

In this role, this individual will support the global team as well as business unit teams in identifying and 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 synthesized 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.
• Partners with business stakeholders to execute and operationalize 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 modeling 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, promoting ideas and proposals persuasively.
• Healthcare Knowledge: knowledge of players, trends, economic drivers, tools, and policy across healthcare.

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