Vice President, Strategy & New Business Development

Becton Dickinson; Tempe (AZ); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Becton Dickinson (BD) is seeking a senior strategic leader to drive long-range planning and portfolio decisions for PI across global teams in Tempe, AZ.

You will shape the strategy, assess market dynamics, and guide investment priorities with clinical and regulatory considerations.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in business, engineering, life sciences, finance, or a related field required.
• MBA or other relevant advanced degree strongly preferred.
• 12+ years of progressive strategy, business development experience.

Responsibilities

• Lead the development and ongoing refinement of PI's long-range strategy, integrating market dynamics, customer needs, competitive activity, technology trends, clinical evidence, and enterprise priorities.
• Partner with the Worldwide President and PI Leadership Team to translate strategy into clear portfolio choices, investment priorities, strategic initiatives, and measurable outcomes.
• Lead the annual strategic review process and ensure alignment across platforms, regions, R&D, Clinical, Medical Affairs, Finance, Regulatory, Quality, Integrated Supply Chain, and Commercial teams.
• Provide objective, fact-based perspectives on portfolio tradeoffs, resource allocation, risk, and value-creation potential.
• Define strategic theses and priority hunting grounds aligned to PI's growth priorities across vascular and cancer care.

Skills

Strategy development

Market analysis

Cross-functional leadership

Due diligence

Education

Bachelor’s degree (required)

MBA or advanced degree preferred

Job description

Job Description

We are the people who give possibilities purpose

BD is one of the largest global medical technology companies in the world. Advancing the world of health™ is our Purpose, and it's no small feat. It takes the imagination and passion of all of us-from design and engineering to the manufacturing and marketing of our billions of MedTech products per year-to look at the impossible and find transformative solutions that turn dreams into possibilities.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Lead the development and ongoing refinement of PI's long-range strategy, integrating market dynamics, customer needs, competitive activity, technology trends, clinical evidence, and enterprise priorities.
• Partner with the Worldwide President and PI Leadership Team to translate strategy into clear portfolio choices, investment priorities, strategic initiatives, and measurable outcomes.
• Lead the annual strategic review process and ensure alignment across platforms, regions, R&D, Clinical, Medical Affairs, Finance, Regulatory, Quality, Integrated Supply Chain, and Commercial teams.
• Provide objective, fact-based perspectives on portfolio tradeoffs, resource allocation, risk, and value-creation potential.
• Define strategic theses and priority hunting grounds aligned to PI's growth priorities across vascular and cancer care.
• Proactively source acquisition, investment, licensing, technology, and partnership opportunities through relationships with company executives, entrepreneurs, clinicians, inventors, universities, venture and private-equity investors, investment bankers, advisers, and participants across the global MedTech ecosystem.
• Develop an external network of innovators, entrepreneurs, physicians, investors, bankers, industry partners, and other ecosystem participants to improve opportunity access and market insight.
• Lead initial screening and strategic fit assessment of opportunities, determining where PI should engage, monitor, partner, invest, or decline.
• Lead integrated assessment of market attractiveness, customer need, competitive differentiation, technology maturity, clinical and regulatory pathway, intellectual property, commercial potential, financial returns, operational requirements, and risk.
• Develop decision-ready business cases, including market models, valuation scenarios, revenue and margin potential, investment requirements, key assumptions, sensitivities, and value-creation plans.
• Present recommendations to PI, Segment, and enterprise senior leadership with clear strategic rationale and transparent risk assessment.
• Partner with Corporate Development and functional leaders through diligence, negotiation, approval, transaction execution, and transition planning.
• Establish a rigorous PI Strategy and New Business Development operating model, including decision rights, governance, stage gates, evaluation criteria, portfolio reviews, funnel management, and executive reporting.
• Increase organizational clock speed by clarifying ownership, improving cross-functional coordination, and driving timely decisions while maintaining appropriate quality and risk discipline.
• Connect inorganic opportunities to organic pipeline strategy, platform roadmaps, clinical evidence plans, market access priorities, and commercialization requirements.
• Ensure integration considerations and value-creation requirements are incorporated early in opportunity assessment and decision-making.
• Provide continuity from strategic thesis through deal rationale, integration planning, and realization of intended strategic and financial outcomes.
• Build, lead, and develop a high-performing Strategy and New Business Development team with deep market expertise, strong external networks, and disciplined analytical capability.
• Create a culture of enterprise thinking, constructive challenge, accountability, speed, collaboration, inclusion, and high ethical standards.
• Influence effectively without relying solely on formal authority and build alignment across diverse senior stakeholders.
• Own and manage the annual PI Strategy and New Business Development operating budget.
• Guide portfolio investment choices and resource allocation through disciplined strategic and financial analysis.
• Develop and challenge valuation models, financial returns, investment requirements, sensitivities, and value-creation assumptions.
• Ensure transaction-related spending, external-adviser support, and diligence investments are appropriately prioritized and governed.

EXPERIENCE & EDUCATION:

• Bachelor's degree in business, engineering, life sciences, finance, or a related field required; MBA or other relevant advanced degree strongly preferred.
• 12+ years of progressive strategy, business develo