St. Jude Children's Research Hospital

Financial Planning and Analysis

Are you passionate about driving strategic initiatives that make a meaningful impact in healthcare? Join our dynamic team at St. Jude, where your analytical skills, project management expertise, and strategic thinking will help shape the future of our programs and departments. We’re seeking a motivated professional who thrives in a collaborative environment and is eager to contribute to high-impact planning efforts that support our mission. Ideal candidates will bring proven experience in healthcare strategic planning, along with a strong ability to translate data into meaningful, actionable insights. If you're ready to play a key role in shaping impactful initiatives and contributing to a mission-driven organization, we encourage you to apply and be part of the transformative work happening at St. Jude. Please note: This position is eligible for remote consideration, which requires on-site travel to Memphis 1x per month, up to 12 trips per year.
Key Responsibilities As a Strategic Planning Specialist, you will: Complete portions of strategic plan development management process for departments and programs; develop business plans with guidance. Perform statistical analysis to unlock trends and key insights critical for the success of St. Jude; summarize findings, reporting in applicable reports and track performance. Identify process improvement opportunities, better tools and templates to support planning and executing initiatives. Form productive relationships with program areas within St. Jude. Serve as a project manager for small standard projects; facilitate discussions at internal SPDS meetings. Maintain strategic planning tools to support strategic plan management; create documentation in adherence to applicable federal, state and local safety, health regulations and standards. Develop proficiency in two strategic planning tools. May mentor and provide guidance to members within the team

Senior Strategic Planning Associate

Clinical Research

Identify and analyze business needs for clinical research departments and institutional leadership, conducting detailed requirements gathering and defining scope and job objectives with an emphasis on industry and other collaborative research initiatives.
Engage with external partners—including pharmaceutical/biotechnology companies, other academic organizations, contract research organizations (CROs), and regulatory bodies—to align institutional capabilities with industry expectations and evolving clinical trial requirements.
Make strategic recommendations for solutions or improvements to business processes that enhance industry engagement, contract execution, study startup timelines, and overall trial feasibility, leveraging new technologies or optimized use of existing platforms (e.g., CTMS, ISF, budgeting tools, eConsent).
Translate complex business and industry engagement requirements into clear application specifications, ensuring interoperability, regulatory compliance (e.g., ICH GCP, 21 CFR Part 11), and support for scalable clinical research operations across academic and industry partnerships.
Develop and maintain strong working relationships with leaders across functions.
Lead the development of strategies for departments within scope in partnership with business and institutional leadership.
Act as the single point of contact for IT for both new demands as well as escalations for operational issues.
Drive education of business teams and promotion of enterprise strategy, platforms, and services.
Act as the business strategy expert, representing business needs to the institutional leadership teams and providing inputs to strategic decisions around business/systems.
Educate the IT organization on how the business operates, and their vision both short- and long- term.
Lead, prioritize, develop, and optimize the overall approach for IT business partnership.
Develop presentation materials, documents, etc. in support of institutional strategy, services, capabilities as well as business strategy and needs.

Senior Strategic Planning Associate

Principal Business Analyst, Clinical Research