Strategy

• Serve as a strategic partner to the Sales team in preparing retailer presentations, line reviews, category reviews, and business updates.
• Develop compelling, customer-specific selling stories grounded in category, consumer, and shopper insights.
• Identify assortment, distribution, shelving, pricing, and promotional opportunities that drive category growth.
• Support annual planning processes, retailer strategy development, and customer business reviews.
• Participate in retailer meetings and presentations as the category expert when appropriate.
• Analyze syndicated data sources (SPINS, Numerator, etc.) to identify trends, opportunities, and risks.
• Monitor category performance, competitive activity, and emerging consumer trends.
• Develop insights around shopper behavior, purchase drivers, and category dynamics.
• Translate data into actionable recommendations for both internal and external stakeholders.
• Build and maintain category scorecards and performance dashboards.
• Lead assortment recommendations and SKU rationalization analyses.
• Evaluate whitespace opportunities within customer assortments.
• Develop fact-based shelving and merchandising recommendations.
• Partner with retailers and broker teams on category optimization initiatives.
• Support development of annual retailer growth strategies.
• Identify opportunities to expand MUSH's presence within existing and new categories.
• Assist in long-term portfolio planning by providing category and consumer insights.
• Partner with Marketing and Innovation teams to assess new product opportunities and market potential.
• Collaborate with external partners, including brokers, data providers, and retailer category teams.

Director, Category Insights – Strategy

• Develop and execute fraud risk strategies to mitigate fraud risk
• Analyze fraud vectors and develop strategies that identify bad actors
• Own and drive the fraud rule lifecycle for assigned areas
• Utilize data-driven analytical techniques to monitor customer behaviors
• Partner with internal teams and third parties to monitor risk trends

Fraud Strategy Lead

• Engage utility planning and engineering teams to identify and advance opportunities to increase hosting capacity on constrained circuits.
• Build strong relationships across utility planning, asset management, engineering, operations, regulatory, and innovation teams.
• Develop technically credible, data-driven proposals that align distributed energy deployment with utility reliability and planning objectives.
• Identify, develop, and advance DERMS, dynamic hosting capacity, flexible interconnection, non-wire alternative, and other grid-modernization pilot opportunities.
• Analyze hosting-capacity maps, load forecasts, infrastructure plans, capital programs, and system-planning studies to inform market and siting strategy.
• Interpret integrated distribution plans, integrated resource plans, long-range transmission plans, and other utility planning filings.
• Monitor feeder and substation constraints, system-upgrade programs, load growth, electrification trends, and planned utility investments.
• Identify circuits and substations where targeted operational changes, grid technologies, or infrastructure investments could unlock additional DER capacity.
• Provide strategic guidance on integrating distributed solar and battery energy storage systems within utility distribution networks.
• Evaluate how operating requirements, export controls, tariffs, system limitations, and utility planning assumptions affect DER deployment.
• Support interpretation of feasibility studies, system-impact studies, facility studies, and related utility planning data.
• Provide input on point-of-interconnection strategy and system-integration considerations.
• Track emerging grid technologies, including ADMS, DERMS, advanced inverters, digital twins, VPPs, microgrids, and grid-enhancing technologies.
• Participate in utility working groups, regulatory forums, industry organizations, and technical conferences related to grid modernization and DER integration.
• Support development, interconnection, policy, and New Markets teams with early-stage grid intelligence and utility-planning insight.
• Translate utility planning information into clear recommendations for leadership and cross-functional teams.

Director, Grid Strategy – Utility Planning

• Oversee multiple projects or workstreams, ensuring high-quality deliverables that are actionable, high impact, and lead to successful change on time
• Be a trusted advisor to senior leaders, managing internal business partner expectations and relationships
• Support the Senior Director in executing the team’s vision and owning at least one internal program or process

Strategy Manager

• Leading strategic planning and execution of mergers, acquisitions, and restructuring initiatives
• Analyzing market trends and assessing business opportunities to guide client decision-making
• Developing strategic frameworks to optimize client outcomes in deal-making processes
• Managing client service accounts and driving engagement workstreams with a focus on value creation
• Mentoring and coaching team members to leverage their strengths and enhance performance
• Utilizing financial modeling and scenario analysis to identify potential risks and opportunities
• Conducting competitive analysis and industry trend analysis to support strategic recommendations
• Collaborating with clients to develop and implement post-merger integration strategies
• Reviewing and refining business plans to align with client objectives and market conditions
• Facilitating difficult conversations with stakeholders to address conflicts and issues effectively

Private Equity Value Creation Manager, Industrials

• Leads the development of access & contracting strategies and recommendations, from strategy through execution, to maximize patient access and protect Genentech’s profitability across all products and multiple key customers within the P/PBM segment.
• Serves as a liaison between CE Account Teams, PCD, External Affairs, Legal and Squad /Access Business Partners to develop customer strategies aligned with Brand/TA priorities.
• Navigates substantial ambiguity and leads high-impact, cross-portfolio initiatives to develop access and contracting strategies for new customer types, new segments, and/or TAs or segments requiring innovative access approaches or where GNE has limited experience.
• Provides negotiation support to account teams by clarifying the rationale behind access strategies, anticipating customer reactions and needs, and providing relevant negotiation talking points as appropriate.
• Synthesizes key contract performance insights across multiple key customers within the P/PBM segment, and identifies and shares scalable insights or key learnings with relevant leaders (e.g., Squad Leads, CE National and Regional VPs, Access Steering Committee, and others as appropriate) to inform contract decision-making and influence product-level contracting strategies.
• Supports strategic account planning with key customers, considering future customer capabilities , brand and portfolio objectives and evolution, and shared priorities across both Genentech and key customers in the near- and mid-term.
• Leverages customer insights and incorporates the customer's perspective to shape the account landscape concerning access and contracting challenges, then translating these insights into actionable solutions to address and resolve these issues.
• Collaborates closely with multiple CSS leaders as strategies may have implications to and interdependencies with other customers and segments, often influencing priorities, flowing and evolving work, and partnering across teams on strategic points of view.
• Collaborates closely with broad sets of stakeholders across multiple functions , including CE Account Teams, Policy and External Affairs, PCD, CCM colleagues (Managed Care Contracts, Customer SI, Government Programs, etc. as appropriate), SAI, Marketing, and others to generate insights and develop holistic customer solutions that align with organizational/TA goals.

Senior Strategy Manager, Customer Segment Strategy

• Provides critical leadership in proactive regulatory risk assessment and the development of regulatory strategy.
• Enables Surveillance to effectively develop regulatory strategy informed by market conditions and developments.
• Achieves the goals and priorities of the department.
• Conducts continuous qualitative research into market conditions and developments.
• Manages an analyst to deliver specialized reports on regulatory issues and trends.
• Assesses issues impacting the department and determines the proper course of action.
• Identifies urgent issues for attention of senior leadership and presents organized, succinct updates.
• Develops and maintains relationships with senior leaders and external FINRA constituents as needed.
• Oversees Surveillance environmental SWOT analysis and supports strategic goal development.
• Evaluates business unit structures/processes to identify barriers to effectiveness.
• Drives decisions on new program creation or improvements to existing ones.
• Collaborates with senior management on SEC oversight inspections and internal audits.
• Develops presentations and reports for the board and Management Committee.
• Represents senior leadership at meetings and events as necessary.
• Coordinates with various FINRA departments for a holistic organizational response to critical issues and trends.

Senior Director, Market Strategy – Research

• Lead the modernization of Aqua Finance’s credit decisioning platforms
• Translate credit policies and workflows into system configurations
• Drive platform enhancements and improve automation
• Support ongoing system administration
• Migrate credit workflows from legacy systems to automated decisioning platforms and translate credit policies into system-based rules
• Lead initiatives to improve profitability, fraud prevention, and decision quality
• Monitor system performance and identify decision discrepancies

Credit Systems and Strategy Manager

• Set the long‑term strategic vision for Connectivity, defining where Caterpillar must be positioned into the future.
• Lead external market and technology intelligence, tracking industry trends, emerging technologies, regulatory shifts, and customer needs.
• Scout the ecosystem for startups, partners, OEMs, and technology providers relevant to Caterpillar’s connectivity goals.
• Analyze the competitive ecosystem, identifying threats, disruptive entrants, and whitespace opportunities across connectivity, autonomy, and digital services.
• Build evaluation frameworks to compare technologies and startups based on maturity, scalability, fit, risk, and value.
• Drive down selection decisions through structured, governance-aligned reviews and data-based recommendations.
• Identify and evaluate partnership, merger, and acquisition opportunities that accelerate capability growth or fill strategic gaps.
• Support due diligence and capital planning for strategic technology investments and partnerships.
• Build and maintain strong external networks with technology vendors, startups, standards bodies, and research institutions to influence and anticipate industry direction.
• Translate external insights into actionable internal strategy, shaping roadmaps, capability development, and organizational focus.
• Advises leadership and aligns stakeholders to ensure selected technologies are adopted and executed successfully.

Strategy Manager – Emerging Connectivity Technologies

• Leading digital personalization, MarTech, and/or CDP initiatives
• Driving audience segmentation, customer journey orchestration, and cross-channel activation strategies
• Shaping platform roadmaps and implementation strategies
• Translating business objectives into scalable digital solutions
• Leading complex initiatives across business and technical teams
• Understanding of customer data strategy, integrations, and activation workflows
• Influencing strategic direction across multiple workstreams

Director, CDP Strategy and Digital Personalization

• Own the reporting and action-oriented insights for Trade team and Health System Directors
• Serve as the strategy and planning engine for the Trade team
• Maintain the Trade function’s channel and distribution strategy
• Support contract and program strategy by structuring scenario analysis
• Create customer-ready strategic materials and manage action-planning processes
• Build frameworks for account-planning and opportunity-prioritization
• Serve as data and analytics counterpart to large Trade customers
• Own planning processes that connect strategy, execution, and review across teams
• Identify and close process gaps within the teams
• Operate within compliance and data governance guidelines

Director, Trade & HSD Strategy, Insights

• Lead, develop, and manage a team of Global Opinion Leader Liaison colleagues across therapeutic areas, such as vaccines and I&I.
• Set individual and team priorities, provide coaching and performance feedback, and create a culture of accountability, collaboration, agility, and continuous learning.
• Build and maintain a high-performing OLL team with deep external engagement capabilities, disease area fluency, and the ability to flex across brand and portfolio priorities.
• Develop colleagues by strengthening engagement craft, insight generation, executive communication, compliant ways of working, and cross-functional leadership capabilities.
• Foster a team culture that elevates quality, strengthens enterprise alignment, and reinforces Pfizer Values in every internal and external interaction.
• Lead development of an integrated OLL strategy across TAs that supports brand, launch, lifecycle, and portfolio priorities.
• Ensure opinion leader and key stakeholder engagement plans are strategically aligned, insight-driven, coordinated across functions, and grounded in clear objectives.
• Guide the team in building and maintaining prioritized opinion leader and key stakeholder landscapes, engagement plans, and compliant interaction models.
• Oversee insight gathering from 1:1 engagements, small-group interactions, advisory boards, congresses, and other external forums to inform commercial strategy and execution.
• Enhance the external stakeholder engagement experience by driving consistency, preparation, follow-through, and coordination across Pfizer touchpoints while ensuring everything is done compliantly following Pfizer HCP policies and guidelines.
• Provide leadership oversight for OLL contributions to congress, MedEd, advisory board, HCP consulting, and external engagement planning across TAs.

Senior Director/Team Lead, Global Commercial Strategy

• Provide direction and hands-on management for client initiatives through all phases, including project scoping, proposal development, study execution, analysis, reporting, and presentation of results.
• Construct persuasive proposals that not only utilize compelling research methodologies that address clients’ business objectives, but also differentiate Egg from the competitive landscape.
• Leverage working knowledge of advanced statistical methods to analyze, synthesize, and translate data into actionable insights (e.g., cluster analysis, factor analysis, key driver analysis, MaxDiff, etc.).
• Utilize data to construct a clear, convincing narrative that builds empathy and pushes storytelling (i.e., includes the what, so what, and now what) in order to turn research into action-oriented implications for clients.
• Oversee the creation of dynamic presentations and facilitate activation workshops that earn the confidence of our clients and to lead them towards making well-informed, smart decisions about their business.
• While facilitating activation sessions, demonstrate the ability to spontaneously apply the data to connect dots, make strategic leaps and drive conversations.
• Work independently, when necessary, to drive progress; but also collaboratively, as a leader within a team, to successfully mentor junior staff.
• Be a trusted partner able to nurture and expand client relationships by developing a deep understanding of our clients’ business context within the competitive landscape, and how to apply this to the design of the project approach and output.
• Foster a strong team culture that embodies Egg’s core values of Courageous Thinking, Genuine Collaboration, Intentional Inclusion, Creativity with Purpose and Infectious Leadership.

Director, Quantitative Market Research and Strategy

• Define and execute the digital strategy for operations, ensuring alignment with corporate objectives and industry best practices.
• Develop and maintain a comprehensive digital transformation roadmap, including AI, automation, data analytics, and Industry 4.0 initiatives.
• Lead cross-functional teams to deliver and scale digital initiatives, ensuring successful implementation and adoption across global manufacturing sites.
• Champion the integration of digital technologies to streamline workflows, enhance data integrity, and enable real-time decision-making.
• Evaluate and implement emerging technologies (AI/ML, digital twins, cloud computing, IoT) to drive innovation and operational excellence.
• Leverage advanced analytics and machine learning to generate actionable insights, optimize processes, and support proactive decision-making.
• Drive the development of digital dashboards, KPIs, and reporting tools to monitor performance and value delivery.
• Promote awareness, adoption, and change management for digital initiatives, fostering a digital-first culture across operations.
• Serve as a strategic thought partner to senior leadership, providing insights on digital enablement, value creation, and emerging trends.
• Collaborate with internal and external partners to ensure seamless integration of digital solutions and alignment with business needs.
• Support governance and decision-making processes by preparing executive-level content, facilitating meetings, and implementing action items effectively.
• Drive continuous improvement initiatives, leveraging digital tools and methodologies (Agile, Lean, Six Sigma) to optimize manufacturing performance.

Digital Strategy Lead

• Support business and strategic planning for AEC Design by synthesizing market analysis, customer needs, competitive dynamics, product priorities, monetization considerations, and financial data
• Conduct research and analysis to inform growth strategy, portfolio decisions, pricing and packaging opportunities, and business model evolution
• Build business cases, financial models, market sizing analyses, and scenario plans to assess strategic options, tradeoffs, risks, and potential business impact
• Partner with Product, Finance, Sales, Marketing, Operations, Industry Strategy, and Go-to-Market teams to align on recommendations and execution considerations
• Contribute to the AEC Design strategic growth story, long-term business vision, and key priorities, connecting customer value, market opportunities, portfolio strategy, and Autodesk’s broader platform strategy
• Translate complex business, product, market, and financial inputs into clear frameworks, executive-ready narratives, presentations, and action plans
• Support high-impact strategic initiatives, including new business opportunities, adjacent market exploration, portfolio rationalization, monetization changes, and go-to-market implications
• Track business performance, identify trends, and surface actionable insights that help teams make better decisions faster.

AEC Strategy Manager

• Ensure Kraft Heinz compliance with existing and emerging federal and state food & food packaging laws, regulations and guidance documents.
• Provide organizational leadership and engage with external partners to ensure company compliance, brand sustainability, and excellence in regulatory management.
• Lead regulatory compliance strategies across Kraft Heinz North America food and/or food packaging regulatory compliance strategies.
• Serve as a subject matter expert on food and/or food packaging regulations, ensuring products meet all applicable compliance requirements.
• Support innovation and market expansion initiatives.
• Lead the end-to-end regulatory compliance cycle, including monitoring and interpreting emerging requirements, assessing impact and advising internal stakeholders.
• Translate obligations into clear policies, controls, and implementation plans.
• Embed regulatory requirements into growth and commercialization activities.
• Support strategic decision-making and help shape the organization’s regulatory posture through engagement with regulators and industry groups.
• Oversee ongoing compliance monitoring and enforcement readiness, including issue escalation, corrective actions, and continuous improvement of the regulatory management framework.

Manager, Strategy – Innovation

• Manages strategic projects, reports and analysis
• Leads the development and direction of selected issues and projects
• Supports complex, high-profile initiatives
• Translates strategy into defined tactics, programs/projects priorities
• Documents strategic priorities and reports on customer insight research initiatives

Business Strategy Planning and Execution Director

• Deliver strategic planning workstreams that align with Nuveen’s strengths and vision, including industry and competitive analysis
• Support post-merger integration workstreams to help maximize opportunities related to corporate development initiatives
• Build collaborative relationships with subject matter experts across Product Management, Portfolio Management, Product Marketing, and Information Technology teams

Senior Associate, Business Strategy – Transformation

• Act as a clinical strategist for our Advanced Wound Care Medical and Clinical Affairs team, with a special focus on emerging Advanced Wound Care technologies
• Play a lead role in clinical study design, including regulatory approvals, statistical analysis plan, and budget
• Close collaboration with Global Medical Education and Key Opinion Leader Management colleagues and Business Development and Marketing teams through interactions with key opinion leaders, healthcare providers, and regulatory bodies to analyze and identify unmet needs in our field
• Work closely with the clinical operations colleagues to translate business strategies to actionable clinical study protocols and retrospective data generation plans
• Analyze data output from clinical studies and other evidence generation activities and distill these into a cohesive "story" to be presented when needed
• Play a proactive role in putting together publications and evidence communication in close collaboration with the medical writing team
• Act as an educator and role model for colleagues outside of medical affairs
• Support all our general medical affairs activities, including, but not limited to new product development, evidence generation and review, risk management, and other activities as needed
• Act as a subject matter expert in the product line

Clinical Strategy Lead

• Owns the commercial workstream end to end: demand mapping, volume strategy, local-market partnership on pricing and contracting, and the KPI dashboard that tracks execution.
• Map market demand opportunities: Analyze country and regional markets to identify demand pull-through and contracting opportunities as well as volume growth potential by product.
• Develop a global volume strategy: Build a commercial strategy targeting the right products in the right markets to drive the volume needed to reach full plant utilization at the in-scope sites.
• Partner with local market teams: Work directly with local markets to establish pricing, contracting strategies, and customer-facing approaches that support volume growth.
• Align with manufacturing targets: Keep commercial volume projections calibrated to the utilization targets from the Manufacturing Workstream; partner daily with the Manufacturing Capacity & Plant Health Project Lead.
• Build the KPI performance dashboard: Design and launch the dashboard that monitors commercial execution and tracks volume impact on plant utilization; embed it into IBP and operating reviews.
• Consolidate the business case: Bring the two workstreams together into one integrated, defensible business case for leadership and OP27.
• Drive the delivery cadence: Keep the Commercial Workstream on its aggressive schedule and report progress into project governance.

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