Sr. Director, Enterprise Strategy

Overview

The Senior Director, Enterprise Strategy will lead various strategy projects and strategic planning efforts with senior Alnylam leaders and the Executive Leadership Team including developing and refining mid-term and long-range corporate strategy at the enterprise level. Projects will involve analysis across datasets, forecasts, identification and solutions for key strategic initiatives, guiding a strategic planning process and ensuring accountability for execution in line with our strategy.

This individual will be a trusted thought partner to the VP Enterprise Strategy and Portfolio Analytics and the Chief Development and Strategy Officer, including proactively highlighting business critical risks/opportunities, identification of key issues and potential solutions prior in a timely manner, and developing, planning and directing the high priority organizational and operational activities for Enterprise effect.  The individual must have the ability to context shift from a thought partner to an individual project leader to a team contributor.

The ideal candidate will have the ability to thrive in uncertainty, take on challenges and work effectively in a matrix environment and with cross-functional teams, and be able to pivot quickly in response to rapidly changing business conditions.  Thinking creatively by moving beyond process, driving data and analytics to true business implications, and going from idea creation to tangible plans that create positive momentum will be critical to success.  In addition, the candidate will have had operational line-role responsibilities in either R&D or commercial, preferably P&L experience, and thus has an innate understanding of how to incorporate operational execution factors when developing a strategy.

The role will require an ability to multi-task, prioritize multiple initiatives and develop solutions where blueprints may not exist.  Familiarity with various strategy frameworks to develop plans that include the What, How and Why will be required as well as creative problem solving and innovation frameworks and methodologies.

Summary of Key Responsibilities

• Lead and support a variety of strategy projects and strategic analysis, facilitating development of options and working across Alnylam leaders to gain buy-in.
• Develop relationships and influence within a global matrixed organization and impact decision-making at the highest levels of the organization, while aligning across corporate and business lines for strategy harmonization.
• Ability to co-create strategy and solutions while leading a cross-functions team.
• Apply various strategy frameworks, creative problem solving approaches and other innovation methodologies to identify key strategic issues, appropriately frame them and drive development of potential solutions.
• Design, plan and facilitate working sessions within the context of strategy projects aligning diverse perspectives and resulting in common direction across multiple functions.
• Conduct competitive assessments and generate insights that provide important inputs in shaping the strategic direction of the company.
• Research and maintain a deep understanding of competitors and scientific and clinical developments in RNAi, competitive technologies and disease areas.
• Identify opportunities to establish and continuously improve business practices.
• Aid in the strategic planning implications and outcomes associated with the company’s Long Range Plan and scenario analysis based on possible outcomes for key assets. 
• Cultivate and maintain strong cross-functional relationships and contribute to our positive environment in support of our culture. 

Qualifications

• Must have 12+ years experience in strategy / finance / operational roles
• Prior pharma / biotech and management consulting experience including multiple years in a matrixed project leadership role, with biopharma corporate strategy and commercial, operational or drug development background experience.
• Bachelor’s Degree in Business or Finance, MBA strongly preferred
• Strong leadership, problem solving, management and communication skills
• Excellent interpersonal skills and ability to work effectively with multiple functions
• Ability to lead and influence cross functional teams
• Self-starter who can manage through ambiguity, learn on the fly, handle multiple priorities and perform job responsibilities accurately while working in a high energy, deadline-driven, and fast-paced environment
• Possess the ability to generate enthusiasm, the ability to quickly gain trust and respect of peers and senior leadership and have a track record of successfully driving results through strong partnership with others

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About Alnylam: Alnylam Pharmaceuticals (Nasdaq: ALNY) has led the translation of RNA interference (RNAi) into a whole new class of innovative medicines with the potential to transform the lives of people afflicted with rare and more prevalent diseases. Based on Nobel Prize-winning science, RNAi therapeutics represent a powerful, clinically validated approach to treating diseases at their genetic source by “interfering” with mRNA that cause or contribute to disease. Since our founding in 2002, Alnylam has led the RNAi Revolution and continues to turn scientific possibility into reality.

Our culture: Our people-first culture is guided by our core values: fiercely innovative, open culture, purposeful urgency, passion for excellence, and commitment to people, and these values influence how we work and the business decisions we make. Thanks to feedback from our employees over the years, we’ve been fortunate to be named a top employer around the world. Alnylam is extremely proud to have been recognized as the #1 Large Employer by Boston Globe Top Places to Work in 2023 for the third consecutive year, one of Science Magazine’s Top Biopharma Employers, one of America's Most Responsible Companies for 2024 by Newsweek, a Fast Company Best Workplace for Innovators, and a Great Place to Work in Canada, France, Italy, Spain, Switzerland, and UK – among others.

At Alnylam, we commit to an inclusive recruitment process and equal employment opportunity. We are dedicated to building an environment where employees can feel that they belong, can bring their authentic selves to work, and achieve to their full potential. By empowering employees to embrace their unique differences at work, our business grows stronger with advanced and original thinking, allowing us to bring groundbreaking medicines to patients. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to their race, color, religion, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, ethnicity, marital status, protected veteran status, disability, or any other characteristics prohibited by law.