AVP, Business Strategy – Life Sciences, Diagnostics
Agilent Technologies
full-time
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Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Santa Clara • California • United States
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Salary
💰 $197,360 - $370,050 per year
Job Level
About the role
- Lead LDG’s end-to-end strategic planning process: annual strategy, multi-year roadmap, and targeted strategic deep dives
- Translate enterprise priorities into LDG strategy and actionable priorities across divisions
- Create alignment on investment theses, strategic trade-offs, and resource allocation across divisions and functions.
- Build and maintain a portfolio view of LDG opportunities across core, adjacent, and whitespace areas—backed by market sizing, customer insight, and competitive dynamics.
- Develop decision-grade business cases (value creation logic, risks, milestones, leading indicators) to enable data-backed prioritization.
- Establish a clear pipeline of growth initiatives, with stage gates from concept → validation → scale.
- Embed strategy into LDG operating cadence through balanced scorecard metrics, operating reviews, and performance dialogues
- Maintain a forward-looking view of macro and market drivers affecting LDG; translate trends into implications for portfolio choices and capability building.
- In partnership with Corporate Development and divisional leaders, support identification and screening of potential targets aligned to LDG strategic priorities.
- Craft crisp, executive-ready narratives and materials that translate complexity into clear choices, consequences, and actions.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree required; MBA and/or life sciences/diagnostics-related technical degree preferred.
- 12+ years of experience in strategy, business development, strategic marketing, market/competitive intelligence, management consulting, investment banking, or related roles with increasing leadership responsibility.
- Demonstrated ability to lead through influence in a global, multi-cultural, highly matrixed environment; track record of aligning stakeholders to decisions and outcomes.
- Strong analytical skills (market sizing, competitive evaluation, portfolio trade-offs) and comfort operating in ambiguity.
- Exceptional written and verbal communication skills; ability to synthesize complex inputs into clear executive recommendations.
- Exposure to M&A diligence processes is a plus; experience working cross-functionally with finance, corporate development, and business leadership.
Benefits
- bonus
- stock options
- benefits
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
strategic planningbusiness developmentmarket sizingcompetitive evaluationportfolio managementdata analysisdecision-grade business casesM&A diligenceperformance metricsinvestment theses
Soft Skills
leadershipinfluencestakeholder alignmentanalytical skillscommunication skillssynthesis of complex informationcross-functional collaborationadaptabilitystrategic thinkingexecutive presentation
Certifications
Bachelor's degreeMBAlife sciences degreediagnostics-related technical degree