Corporate Strategy Manager

What You Can Expect

How You'll Create Impact

• Owns the end-to-end enterprise strategic planning integrated workplan and calendar, including phases, milestones, input requests, review gates, decision points, deliverables, and executive forums.
• Orchestrates planning inputs and execution across global business units, regions, and functions; clarifies expectations, owners, dependencies, timelines, and deliverables, and follows through to secure complete, decision-ready contributions.
• Runs major corporate strategic initiatives through global cross-functional teams, translating approved priorities into plans with scope, workstreams, accountable owners, milestones, deliverables, governance, measures of success, and key interdependencies.
• Facilitates planning workshops, global cross-functional working sessions, and executive initiative reviews; guides stakeholders through the process, prepares agendas and pre-reads, records decisions and actions, and follows through to closure.
• Tracks progress, milestones, risks, issues, decisions, and dependencies across the strategic plan and major initiatives; identifies delays early, coordinates corrective action, and escalates issues when needed.
• Advises teams on sequencing and trade-offs when priorities compete, keeping plans aligned with enterprise goals.
• Integrates workstream outputs into concise, consistent leadership materials, including status updates, presentations, dashboards, and summaries that connect analysis, recommendations, financial implications, and implementation plans.
• Partners with initiative owners and Finance to establish baselines, KPIs, benefit assumptions, investment and resource considerations, and a practical cadence for tracking strategic and financial outcomes.
• Leads assigned strategy workstreams by aligning internal and external contributors, as applicable, by clarifying scope, workplans, review cycles, timelines, and deliverable standards; provides direction and feedback to analysts and workstream leads.
• Improves planning and initiative-management processes, governance, templates, dashboards, and communications to strengthen consistency, transparency, and execution discipline.
• Builds collaborative relationships across global commercial, clinical, regulatory, operations, finance, and external partner teams, gaining alignment and commitment through influence rather than authority.

What Makes You Stand Out

• Demonstrated experience managing complex, cross-functional programs, strategic-planning processes, transformation initiatives, or consulting engagements from scope through delivery.v
• Exceptional organization and execution discipline, including critical-path planning, deliverable management, dependency mapping, risk and issue resolution, and timeline recovery.
• Strong facilitation and stakeholder-management skills; able to align senior leaders and diverse teams, establish clear ownership, and drive action without relying on direct authority.
• Ability to structure ambiguous business questions into manageable workstreams, frame the right decisions, and integrate analysis into a concise, decision-ready narrative.
• Sound business and financial acumen, including ability to coordinate business cases, assumptions, investment considerations, KPIs, and benefit tracking with Finance and initiative owners.
• Strong executive communication and presentation skills, including clear status reporting, concise escalations, and effective meeting leadership.
• Experience directing analysts, consultants, or cross-functional workstream contributors and reviewing outputs for completeness, accuracy, and executive readiness.
• Adaptable, proactive, and composed under tight timelines; exercises sound judgment and discretion with sensitive enterprise information.

Education and Experience

• Bachelor's Degree and 4 years of relevant experience, or Associate's Degree and 6 years of relevant experience, or High School Diploma or Equivalent and 8 years of relevant experience required
• Preferred Qualification: Bachelor’s degree in business, strategy, economics, finance, engineering, or a related field; MBA or other advanced degree a plus.
• Preferred Qualification: 6 years of relevant experience management consulting, corporate strategy, PMO/program management, transformation, or enterprise initiative delivery. Demonstrated ability to lead complex cross-functional projects from scope and planning through delivery
• Preferred Qualification: Prior experience in the MedTech, medical device, or broader life sciences industry preferred, with familiarity in orthopedic or surgical markets a plus.
• Preferred Qualification: Formal project or program management training or certification is a plus.

Travel Expectations

• Up to 15%