Director Strategy - Academic/Research

Geisinger; Danville (PA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare benefits from day one

Vision benefits

Dental benefits

Domestic partner benefits

Job summary

Geisinger seeks an enterprise strategy lead embedded with a designated business unit, partnering with BU leadership to shape strategy and translate direction into actionable plans. The Director ensures governance, enterprise priorities, and disciplined execution across the system.

Responsibilities include framing strategic questions, developing plans, coordinating with ACSO, and leading executive strategy sessions to drive decisive, enterprise-aware outcomes.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree is required.
• Minimum of 5 years managerial/supervisory experience.
• Minimum of 7 years related work experience.

Responsibilities

• Partner with business unit leaders to frame strategic questions and set direction aligned to enterprise priorities.
• Translate strategy into multi-year and annual plans with budgets, timelines, and resource needs.
• Surface cross‑business dependencies and risks; coordinate with Strategy Directors and ACSO to resolve tradeoffs.
• Define analytic questions and translate insights into decision-ready options and risks.
• Provide strategic support for enterprise‑critical initiatives and build BU capability with tools and templates.
• Support routine strategic performance reviews and trigger reprioritization when needed.
• Lead executive strategy sessions and create concise memos and presentations to build alignment.

Education

Bachelor's Degree- (Required)

Job description

Job Summary

This role serves as the enterprise strategy lead embedded with a designated business unit, operating through a dotted‑line partnership with business unit executive leadership. The Director is accountable for shaping strategy, translating enterprise direction into actionable plans, and supporting disciplined execution—while maintaining alignment with enterprise priorities, standards, and governance through the Enterprise Strategy Office. The role balances deep business‑unit partnership with an enterprise perspective, ensuring strategies are decision‑oriented, integrated across the system, and supported by clear plans, metrics, and execution follow‑through.

Job Summary

This role serves as the enterprise strategy lead embedded with a designated business unit, operating through a dotted‑line partnership with business unit executive leadership. The Director is accountable for shaping strategy, translating enterprise direction into actionable plans, and supporting disciplined execution—while maintaining alignment with enterprise priorities, standards, and governance through the Enterprise Strategy Office. The role balances deep business‑unit partnership with an enterprise perspective, ensuring strategies are decision‑oriented, integrated across the system, and supported by clear plans, metrics, and execution follow‑through.

Job Duties

• Partner with business unit leaders to frame critical strategic questions and develop clear strategic direction aligned to enterprise priorities. Shape and recommend strategic choices, priorities, and tradeoffs informed by enterprise context, knowledge of the current business environment, and informed perspectives on future state opportunities and pressures.
• Translate approved strategy into multi‑year and annual plans, including priorities, targets, sequencing, and resource implications. Support development and pressure‑testing of business cases and investment theses in partnership with Finance and operational leaders. Ensure alignment with enterprise planning cadence, capital guardrails, and governance.
• Surface cross‑business dependencies, risks, and sequencing challenges. Coordinate with other BU‑aligned Strategy Directors and the ACSO to resolve enterprise‑level tradeoffs. Maintain enterprise perspective while operating in close partnership with BU leadership.
• Define key analytic and insight questions required to inform strategic decisions. Partner with Strategic Insights to translate analysis into decision‑ready options, implications, and risks. Conduct independent future-sensing to stay ahead of environmental opportunities and pressures.
• Provide hands‑on strategic support for a portfolio of enterprise‑critical initiatives within the business unit. Partner with Strategic Initiatives to clarify scope, milestones, and dependencies. Build BU capability through shared tools, templates, and decision frameworks.
• Support routine strategic performance reviews; use performance insights to drive decisions and corrective actions. Signal when strategy adjustment or reprioritization may be required.
• Lead executive strategy and working sessions and cross‑functional forums. Develop clear, concise executive‑ready narratives, decision memos, and presentation materials. Build alignment and momentum from strategy through execution.

Work is typically performed in an office environment. Accountable for satisfying all job specific obligations and complying with all organization policies and procedures. The specific statements in this profile are not intended to be all-inclusive. They represent typical elements considered necessary to successfully perform the job.

Education

• Bachelor's Degree- (Required)

Experience

• Minimum of 5 years-Managerial/Supervisory (Required)
• Minimum of 7 years-Related work experience (Required)

OUR PURPOSE & VALUES

Everything we do is about caring for our patients, our members, our students, our Geisinger family and our communities. KINDNESS: We strive to treat everyone as we would hope to be treated ourselves. EXCELLENCE: We treasure colleagues who humbly strive for excellence. LEARNING: We share our knowledge with the best and brightest to better prepare the caregivers for tomorrow. INNOVATION: We constantly seek new and better ways to care for our patients, our members, our community, and the nation. SAFETY: We provide a safe environment for our patients and members and the Geisinger family

Benefits

• We offer healthcare benefits for full time and part time positions from day one, including vision, dental and domestic partners.

Perhaps just as important, from senior management on down, we encourage an atmosphere of collaboration, cooperation and collegiality. We know that a diverse workforce with unique experiences and backgrounds makes our team stronger. Our patients, members and community come from a wide variety of backgrounds, and it takes a diverse workforce to make better health easier for all. We are proud to be an affirmative action, equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment regardless to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or status as a protected veteran.