Executive Director, Strategy & Enterprise Transformation

Life changing therapies. Global impact. Bridge to thousands of biopharma companies and their patients.

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Summary:

The Executive Director, Strategy & Enterprise Transformation serves as a trusted thought partner to executive leadership on enterprise priorities and strategic initiatives while leading the governance and execution oversight of high-impact transformation and value-creation initiatives. This role establishes enterprise-wide operating rhythms, management reviews, executive steering committees, and performance management cadences while ensuring alignment across strategy, operating plans, budgets, forecasting, resource allocation, and execution priorities. The Executive Director develops executive-level insights and recommendations to drive growth, profitability, productivity, and shareholder value; identifies enterprise risks, dependencies, bottlenecks, and execution gaps; and develops appropriate mitigation strategies. The role also influences leaders across organizational boundaries without direct authority and supports reporting to the Board of Directors, Executive Committee, ownership, and investors, as appropriate.

Core Responsibilities

1. Enterprise Portfolio Leadership
Lead oversight of a portfolio of strategic, operational, digital, commercial, and transformation initiatives. Create visibility into performance and ensure initiatives deliver targeted business outcomes.

2. PMO and Governance Excellence
Design and maintain a world-class PMO framework that standardizes governance, prioritization, reporting, accountability, resource management, benefits realization, and executive decision-making.

3. Enterprise Performance Management
Develop enterprise KPI frameworks that connect strategic objectives, operational performance, financial outcomes, customer metrics, and transformation milestones.

4. Executive Analytics and Decision Support
Build sophisticated executive dashboards, scenario analyses, forecasting models, and performance reviews that enable faster and better decision-making.

5. Value Creation and Financial Impact
Partner closely with Finance and Operations to identify opportunities for revenue acceleration, margin expansion, productivity improvement, working capital optimization, and capital efficiency.

6. Transformation and Change Leadership
Drive adoption of new processes, operating models, systems, governance mechanisms, and performance management disciplines.

7. Cross-Functional Problem Solving
Lead structured problem-solving efforts across enterprise challenges and facilitate resolution of complex cross-functional issues.

8. Data and Digital Enablement
Partner with IT, Digital, Finance, and Operations teams to improve data quality, reporting automation, analytics platforms, and enterprise visibility.

Key Deliverables

• Enterprise performance management framework
• Executive and Board-level KPI dashboards
• Transformation portfolio governance model
• Initiative tracking and benefits-realization process
• Enterprise risk and issue management framework
• Financial and operational value-creation reporting
• Executive Committee review materials
• Strategic decision-support analytics and recommendations

Leadership Expectations

• Operate as an enterprise leader with a company-first mindset.
• Demonstrate executive presence and credibility with senior stakeholders.
• Build strong relationships across all levels of the organization.
• Cultivate accountability, transparency, and execution discipline.
• Develop future leaders through coaching, influence, and collaboration.
• Promote a culture of continuous improvement and fact-based decision-making.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree required; MBA, advanced business degree, engineering degree, or equivalent preferred.
• 10–15+ years of progressive experience in strategy, management consulting, finance, transformation, PMO, operations, corporate development, or business leadership roles.
• Demonstrated success leading large-scale transformation programs and enterprise initiatives.
• Experience working with executive leadership teams and Boards.
• Strong financial acumen, including forecasting, budgeting, KPI design, value creation tracking, and performance management.
• Advanced analytical and quantitative problem-solving skills.
• Exceptional communication and executive presentation capabilities.

Preferred Characteristics

• High intellectual curiosity and learning agility.
• Ability to simplify complex business challenges.
• Influential leader capable of driving outcomes without formal authority.
• Strong systems thinker able to connect strategy, operations, finance, technology, and organizational dynamics.
• Comfortable operating in high-growth, private-equity-backed, and rapidly changing environments.
• Demonstrated capacity for broader enterprise leadership and future executive advancement.

Impact of the Role

The role is expected to materially improve execution effectiveness, accelerate enterprise decision-making, enhance strategic alignment, strengthen accountability, improve financial performance, increase organizational transparency, and support long-term value creation. The individual will play a pivotal role in shaping enterprise priorities and ensuring PCI successfully converts strategy into measurable outcomes.

The anticipated base salary range for this position is $176,640–$218,970 annually. Actual base pay may vary based on geographic location, experience, qualifications, and other job-related factors.

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Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) Statement:
PCI Pharma Services is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. We do not unlawfully discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, age, sex, creed, national origin, ancestry, citizenship status, marital or domestic or civil union status, familial status, affectional or sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, genetics, disability, military eligibility or veteran status, or any other protected status.

At PCI, Equity and Inclusion are at the core of our company’s purpose: Together, delivering life-changing therapies. We are committed to cultivating an inclusive workplace by holding ourselves accountable to the highest standards of understanding, fairness, respect, and equal opportunity – at every level. We envision a PCI community where everyone can belong and grow, and we strive to bring this vision to reality by continuously and intentionally assessing our people practices, policies and programs, marketing approach, and workplace culture.